Quick summary and thank you for TACCA Training day.
First of all a massive thank you to Paul Moss for putting on another excellent training day, Paul and the 2 Dave’s split into 3 sections, Paul spent all day in the hall showing leather repair techniques, Dave Altomstone had the main room for carpet and rug repair, he also had a rug badger setup, kindly lent to him by Roy Mcreynolds (from elite cleaning in Ireland) which we all had a play with, (very nice machine) and Dave also had the outside car park for his legendary (lol) rug cleaning demonstrations. Dave Ingram was put out the way in the corridor for obvious reasons, lol, only joking Dave, Dave was covering commercial carpet tile cleaning,(mainly encapsulation) and not just how too, but marketing and on the job quoting which is extremely interesting. Seriously, when dave tells you how to commercially sell your services, even the most experienced take something (however small) away from the chat.
I get a lot of enquiries via the TACCA site from great guys who say, I’ve only done one course but have 10 years experience so surely i can become a member, the simple answer is no, not because you’re not good enough, but because you’re not what TACCA is about, we want to actively encourage members to get involved, to go to these training days, to blog about TACCA, to promote TACCA to be part of TACCA, to learn that one golden nugget that will increase your profit margins, or decrease the time it takes to clean, sorry but 30 years experience or not, i defy anyone to come to a training day like Pauls and not learn one little thing, and i don’t mean just from Paul and the 2 Dave’s, I learn just as much from the guys attending and the way they clean/market there business as much as from the instructors. And what’s to say you could offer some great advice back. TACCA is about building a community of like minded carpet cleaners, and yesterday was a massive step to achieving this. Anyway I’m chunering as always.
Can’t finish without thanking Jamie Pearson from CSUK who kindly donated a Prochem steam pro and heat and run system for auction. Final bid price was £1250 I think, absolutely amazing. Also Paul heath from PJ cleaning supplies who did the same with a sapphire hand tool which raised £295.
Then there was the generosity of all the guys that bought raffle tickets. 140 tickets sold at £5 each raised another £700, and the prizes donated were from John Kelly at Restoremate, A 4 jet hard floor wand, from Kev and the lovely Roxy Loomes from cleaners mate, a full pro version of cleaners mate. From Andrew Briscoe, 2 cases of his brothers specially brewed beer, also some chems from John Kelly, and 2 sets of TACCA van graphics and embroidered badges.
Andrew Briscoe won the hard floor wand, Jammy bugger.
The cleaners mate went to Dan wills from Cleanit, and as he all ready had the software he kindly asked me to put it up for auction to raise money for TACCA, so i asked if he would be okay with it all going to kirsty’s kids and he was fine, so Andy Hogarth won the final bid at £180.
So the totals for the day were
£700 for raffle tickets
£1250 for the steampro
£295 for the sapphire
And £180 for the resold cleaners mate.
Total raised was a staggering £2425. The monies were split between TACCA and Kirsty’s Kids
TACCA total £995.00 raised
Kirsty’s Kids total £1430.00 raised.
Take a bow everyone. Fantastic.
