Hi Ian,
Like Scott says I can thoroughly recommend all the carpet, upholstery and advanced spot and stain training at Alltec. The trainer Paul Pearce is a true cleaning professional and excellent tutor, who I can thoroughly recommend. I have attended Paul's IICRC training at Alltec in Carpet Cleaning, Upholstery cleaning and Commercial Carpet maintenance, in 2016.
And this year I have attended the Hands on carpet cleaning training, the Hands on Upholstery cleaning training and the Advanced Spot and Stain removal training days, all at Alltec. Everyone from Alltec are extremely helpful and friendly and the lunches are superb. There is no pressure put on anyone there to buy any equipment or chemicals from them either, while you are doing the training. However, I will say their equipment and cleaning solutions are superb, and Chris, Kerry and Karra, are all available to speak to and answer any questions you may have concerning equipment and cleaning solutions.
www.alltec.co.uk.
If you do decide to travel down to Alltec, I can recommend staying at the local Travelodge at Fourwentways as a good value hotel.
www.travelodge.co.uk/hotels/19/Cambridge-Fourwentways-hotel.
I can also recommend the carpet and upholstery training offered by the NCCA, which takes place up in Leicester, again the training is undertaking by Paul and Pawlo Woloszyn. Again the level of teaching and training is first class, and there is no pushing or promoting of one particular make of cleaning machine or solution manufacture.
www.ncca.co.uk.
Good luck with your training Ian. Phil P.