[Lewis Newby]

Just wondered how many of you have added hard floor cleaning to your carpet & upholstery cleaning services?

Was it a worthwhile move? Does it sell itself alongside your regular work or do you need to push it to make sales? If so do you market as a separate business or just advertise it as another service offered?

Interested in your pros and cons alike.

Cheers
Lewis

[Kev Martin]

Hard Floors added as a CC’er is a very smart move.  Think about it, your already in there doing the carpets so you just say do you know we do hard floors as well.  Everyone has a kitchen and or a bathroom at the very least with a hard floor.  The mistake most CC’ers make is trying to do them with carpet gear.

[Dave_Lee]

I added it to my Carpet cleaning several years ago. You can get more money for the same area for sure. You need to invest in the right equipment, although to start with you could just do the easier jobs like ceramic and porcellain (not textured). Work is slow to come in but I've had most work simply by telling customers while I am cleaning their carpets. I do get some work through integrating it into my website but not that many, whether a seperate site would be better I'm not sure.
Training is a necesity as these floors are expensive, so you need to know what you are doing.

[Lewis Newby]

Thanks for the replys ,I'm looking at doing the prochem one day course for a start and seeing what's involved etc, I've been asked a few times about hard floors recently so I figured perhaps it's time to look into it

[Cleanevangelist]

Lewis

you should add as many new services as you can and only offer then to you database.

Respects

ian