[murky]

This has really peed me off. I went to quote a really nice office out in the sticks yesterday to do their tiles. The office manager is in 2 minds as to have them cleaned or replaced.

I was borderline too, gave him the quote and am hoping to get the nod, but if I had seen this thread I would have been more confident about doing them. I have only ever HWE'd tiles and usually padded afterwards and never had a complaint. But no one has ever rung to say thanks they are brill!

I have to quote a busy Dr's surgery including reception, all tiles so you can imagine the state they are in. The contract cleaners do them with a 'walk behind thingy'  so I will be up against them, I feel more confident about quoting rather than saying better get rid of them. I only have small TM and roto. So I will be doing what Ian suggests, UPR, scrub and rinse extract, and pad after.

I havent got rx20, nor would ever need one with my line of work but it just goes to show what you can acheive with the right kit.

 Thats a stonking pic Simon, all you have to do is slide that in front of a building manager and the jobs yours I would think. 'Show us your dirtiest carpets and we can achieve miracles for you', you would save any building manager an absolute fortune.

Good thread this.

Murky

[Simon Gerrard]

Murky,

I've always said that as professional carpet cleaners we should have in the back of our van the means to deal with any carpet regardless of what state it is in, this is a pretty classic example of that.
Having scrubbed the area you could probably get away with wanding rather than RX'ing as all of the work has been done by the scrubbing.
The trouble is the client now wants us to clean three more floors all in a similar state which means working evenings which is not my favourite time of day

Simon

[Dave Roberts]

Great result there Ian.    An none of the cleaning marks in some of the earlier pictures.   Appearance is more than just cleaning.

[garry22]

Simon,

I've finally managed to download the other photo's.

I would expect the padding results to be similar. the reason being that the breaking up of the soiling seems to be the vital bit. I would however use quite a few clean (soaked and wrung) pads.

[Linds Russell]

I have been toying with the rotary idea for a while and a good friend of mine swears by his. I have to say that your pictures have inspired me to pull the finger out and do it as the results clearly speak for themselves!

Linds

[Shaun_Ashmore]

I now do a yearly clean of a bathroom showroom with a rotary LM and it looks fantastic when I have finished only trouble is that it takes me 1 hour and I charge £300 for it so I end up HWE it also which takes me another hour with getting the pipes out and putting back in and a cuppa just to add value/waste time.

A rotary can be a bigger money earner than a TM.

Shaun

[brian willis]

hi simon
 what chems did you use

 bri

[Simon Gerrard]

Hi Brian,

How you doing. I hope you're looking after my baby How many hours has she done now?
I'm just dabbling with LM trying to work out which is the best system.
I've done a bit with Pure Clean and got an acceptable result so looking into it further.

Simon

[brian willis]

shes running well just done 400 hr service today. 2500 hrs on her now so havnt done too many.
how many hrs you done now.

 bri