[Shaun_Ashmore]

Johns is a specially made machine a 1 off made by Dr Ingram, but its still not as good as mine now!

So there!

Shaun

[John_Flynn]

I'm saying nowt

[Shaun_Ashmore]

that'll be a first!

Shaun

[SteveTruman]

So if i am reading this right youse who have a TM are saying that us paupers who only have portables are cleaning 20 times inferior to yourselves. Dont think so some how. Also i would hazzard a guess that there are twenty more times companies using portables than TM. So what would the poor suppliers do if we all got huge o/d's to buy a TM.

Regards  

Steve

P.S. Does anybody have the relevant data on ratio of portable to TM operators.

[lee_gundry]

steve

your right most companies do use portables to run their businesses,Why do they do this COST.They can have 2/3 portables on the go to 1 tm.If the cost of a new tm was around 4k i bet 70% of portable users would purchase.

It is a fact that most people don,t upgrade to a truckmount for the reason of cost & cost alone.

I think the word paupers is way of the mark.As a recent post says most of the people who now own tm built their business on the strenght of portables i did.Times move on systems change, cleaning agents change,also methods,i bought a tm 4 years ago since then i have owned 4 in total,i would never go back to portables.

nobody said that the cleaning ability of a portable is INFERIOR its just not as good in a lot of ways.

i have done demos on commercial carpets where portable users have done their,s, & out of over 100 demo,s i haven,t lost 1 job to a portable user.

ps
what portable do you at the moment steven

Lee G

[SteveTruman]

Steampro 2000 it does its job. You are correct about the cost factor. Do you never have problems leading the pipes to the premises?

Regards

Steve

[safecleanlakes]

forgive me if i am missing something here, but surely at the end of the day what really counts is profitability, or am i being extremely naive?? good luck to anyone who chooses to go down whatever path they decide, be it portable, t/m, or bucket and mop, but isn't the objective for any business to turn a profit and and build a solid client base.

[lee_gundry]

steve

if we i am cleaning a first floor/upwards i usally run the hoses up the side of the building & in through a window.
If we are cleaning ground floor office areas in work time i always run the hoses in such a way as to try to keep them of hallways/heavy usage areas & always place warning signs along  the chosen route.

ps
is it one of the new anti scratch ones.

Lee G

[Dynafoam]

Lee,

I adopt the same hose-run approach with a portable, as I did with a TM, however the problem with the TM was when I had to drag 50+ft of hose through mud just to get to the building.

This, I think, is what Steve was asking about.

BTW I did a job in sheltered housing complex last week (in the snow) where I could get the van no closer than 180 feet from the nearest flat ( I know because I paced out the distance dozens of times in the course of the job   )

John.