[JandS]

Hard floor or leather?
I fancy the leather as it's probably easier on the body at 53
but is there much repair/restoration out there.
It also appeals to me from an interest point of view.
Or is hard floor where the money is, can't decide which way
to jump.

John

[Joe H]

First question to ask

are any of your competitors (in say a 15 mile radius) covering either of those trades in a serious way?

[richy27]

if you have patience then leather restoration can be a rewarding skill if your prepared to advertise for it there is plenty of work out there . I have more than i can deal with and really fills the gaps. i do mostly larger projects full colour restor as the small minor repairs can be alot of hastle .

I also do hard floors and the average job price is excellant especially on the nat stone floors.

[derek west]

cleaning and sealing a travertine floor tomorrow, £450. kerrrrrching.

[JandS]

Joe

Hard floor cleaning never seen any, when I google it
all I get is wooden floor maintenance.
Leather repair isn't coming up with much either.
I do know my sister had her car seat repaired by
someone about 5 miles away but didn't keep his card.

John

[Shaun_Ashmore]

I used to try and push the restoration of leather but in an ideal world you need a workshop had a few jobs where the conditions of spraying paint wasn't the best and also the light wasn't very good customers do tend to think it's a cheap fix where in all honesty to charge the same as carpet cleaning it isn't, the course is very interesting though.

Hard floors if I pushed the service I would find and get more, the average job for hard floor cleaning would be more but the average customer may expect more from you not sure if the high job ticket is more profitable with the ones I have done I found it to be not as profitable.

If I had to do one or the other I would do floors because you don't see many floors being taken up to be cleaned in a workshop.

Shaun

[JandS]

Good point Shaun.
What sort of gear you need for hard floor?

Derek
Which course did you do?

John

[clinton]

John there is a course oven here in stockport run by a small company and its a superb one too.

[Shaun_Ashmore]

Rotary and wet pick up for a start.

Shaun

[derek west]

Good point Shaun.
What sort of gear you need for hard floor?

Derek
Which course did you do?

John

i did the IICRC at altec, didn't rate it much to be honest.
looking forward to doing kevin martins course towards the end of the year if i can get on one, might organise a few of us to go up if kevs up for it.

[M.Acorn]

Umming and arring about going on the next Prochem hard floor course on March 29th,got a job tomorrow,but having to hire,as my machine is not here

[JandS]

Shaun

By wet pick up you mean porty?

Derek

Where's kev's place?

John

[clinton]

John you have nulife stonecare here in stockport.

Mike philbin from the company does a good hands on course too..

[Shaun_Ashmore]

Porti will do with a wet pickup wand, in an ideal world you need some good psi but upgrades come when you can see which way the work is coming, Nulife in Stockport looks good, I've never met or spoke to Kev?? who Derek knows I think they use the stone school in Stoke, I've met Keith Roberts briefly and he comes across as knowing his stuff but for me he goes around the houses and knows how to large the part up where I like to get stuck in. I think Kev does Aquamix which is supposed to be the brand leader but stand to be corrected on that.

Shaun

[JandS]

Cheers for info peeps will look into Nulife and Aquamix.

John

[Joe H]

John
Nulife has a link up with Solutions Cornwall - see their site

[Len Gribble]

Never been into leather more of a hard floor person (commercial only) 



Joe

Thought I knew that name one of the first Allergstop members  but I won’t hold that against him


Oh amtech do some blinding hard floor micospilters 

[JandS]

Will do Joe.
Did that job you got me.
Despite the area the house was well kept and
woman was happy and paid pronto.
Cheers Joe.

John

[clinton]

Aint far for you either john and 5 mins form the motorway junction at stockport