Water damage ain’t nothing but a thaing.
Setup correctly it should at some point overtake your carpet cleaning side of your biz.
You need a helper for sure at least many part timers that can be called in.
Don’t go signing a loan for the equipment unless you want to increase your chances of failure.
The losses come in bunches it seems, and at other times a while in between.
I am on most of our water losses as I really enjoy it and have learned to document, document, document everything as that makes the billing/collection/receipt of payment easier.
Don’t try to work out of a van as you will quickly learn to hate the work,as you have to work so much harder to achieve the same results,
Get a 16ft to 20ft trailer at least to start with, then a box truck with a lift gate.
Find subs (other carpet cleaners) in your area that can extract for you at a rate of 100 an hour or so depending your area.
Get as much education as you can and remember what they teach in the class will be nothing like you see in the field, but you must use it for reference to dot your i’s and cross your t’s.
To start I suggest 3 large Dehus and 16-20 air movers. At least 1 air scrubber. You will need multiple moisture meters even if you buy all in ones you still need redundancy as they will fail at 2am.
Much more but start here.
The most important part is to perform the job the same as you would eat an xlarge pizza, 1 slice or part at a time or it will be too much to take in.
man I enjoyed this post
felt like i was eating a good ol steak and some taters and country gravy.
def some sound advice
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