[Andy Hogarth]

I'm Thinking of purchasing the Extracta cleaning manual to mull over, However with p&p it costs £82.25

Does anyone own it or recommend buying it and do any other companies do a manual (preferably a leetle bit cheaper)

Cheers

Andy

[Ian Gourlay]

Although I have an out of date one, if it is the Lloyd Owen one it is an interesting read but I do not think it is  worth  £82 but then I never do.


Information Publishers appear to charge a lot, but maybee they do not sell many so they have to  make a profit some how.

[John Kelly]

Craftex do one, basic but good enough for starters and only £25 + vat (never seen the Extracta one, but this is probably as good).
See here
http://www.craftex.net/id16.html

[Spot On cleaning]

I have the Extracta manual but i didn,t pay for it, as the WDA did. As Pirelli were closing down we all went on courses for different things and they payed petrol costs, hotel accommodation and this manual.

There are some good points in there, but as you say it's pricey.

Dave

[robert stubbs]

This is a free manual


  http://web.archive.org/web/20010428061322/members.nbci.com/uphcleaner/

[John Kelly]

Robert

Had a quick look through and it looks an excellent manual & for nought!!

Now come on chaps print it out and study it and you'll all be experts in no time.

[mark_roberts]

An investment of £82 with the potential to make you thousands and your complaining :

Sometimes I do wonder.

Mark

[Andy Hogarth]

Cheers for the replys, Manual for nowt, now your talking.

An investment of £82 with the potential to make you thousands and your complaining

Sometimes I do wonder.

No Mark I'm not complaining just enquiring wether it was value for money and to get some reviews on it. I'm on a tight budget till I seriously start working on getting gear and training after the summer, This involves selling my much beloved vw campervan when the prices are at peak round August/September time so for now I'm merely picking up as much info as I can for as little as poss.

Andy

[Bernard Hibbs]

I have one you can have.  I bought it for £40, So I will sell it to you for £25 including postage.  Email me at bernardhibbs@gmail.com if you are interested.

[AJCleaningServices]

Robert,
Thank you for the link, I have edited it with Word,  re-sized it to 121 pages and printed it out.  Unfortunately all of the pictures are missing, but seems to be very informative book.
Regards,
Arthur

[AJCleaningServices]

I have one you can have.  I bought it for £40, So I will sell it to you for £25 including postage.  Email me at bernardhibbs@gmail.com if you are interested.

Bernard,
If Andy does not buy the Extracta cleaning manual then let me know and I will buy it.
Regards,
Arthur
info@cleaningforyou.co.uk

[Ian Gourlay]

Let me clarify, the one I have has  around 252 pages.

Contains info on Carpet Cleaning Upholstery Cleaning and Marketing.


Books that have 252 pages usually cost £20.

Mark does have a point. Last Year I spent aproaching £1000 on various information products. 

Every day I get letters telling meI need this CD set or that DVD conference etc.

And yes they do contain good advise but you have got to do it.

Shoe String Starts are hard 


I have took a quick look at the link manual.

Seems to cover most things but 1985 edition.

Also US manual.

[craigp]

i got one to lloyd owen, came from ashcombe (alltec now) i believe there the same from alltec and extracta, mines 19 years old!!  i belive its the same one they sell today its just updated every few years,

 it refers to 'stevenage carpet cleaning' on the very first page? if i got same one? the guy who wrote it ran that company in stevenage in the early 80s!!


i say its pretty basic and much is comom sense, try find one second hand maybe e bay,

[andrew chrysler]

Books that have 252 pages usually cost £20.

And newspapers with about 60 pages usually cost 30p, and the pages are bigger.

Bargain of the week, though, is 500 sheets of A4 paper for 99p from Viking Direct.

So that's 250 pages for 49p. All you have to do is write on them, and you have saved £££££s