FIVE three piece suites in One day...plus carpets....you must have been working thirty hour days....no wonder you are retired?
That week I did 12 hour days on Monday and Tuesday, 13 hours Wednesday, 14 hours Thursday and 15 hours (the day of the 5 suites) on Friday. For good measure I had a light 5 hour day on the Saturday.
I finished for Christmas 3 days later on Christmas Eve on the Tuesday of the following week......and promptly went down with a bad cold which didn't get better until after New Year as my body could then afford to "rest".
But like Mike says I certainly increased my prices from then on and the funny thing is the more you charge the more you don't (quite) mind doing them. There again putting my prices up seemed to attract a fair few more of the big/valuable/weird fabric combinations suites which can cause a different set of problems.
Certainly working as a two man team which is what I did for my last 9 years before retiring easily cut the time in half for cleaning a suite. As I was discussing things with the client by the time I've finished that my number two had set up all the cleaning equipment, including dryers. We used to call it our "Operating Theatre"!
Rog