Bob Foster
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- Oct 8, 2006
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Where do I start, its an excellent program so far and its a long way from over.
Lisa and Jim are great instructors and the Pemberton multi-building complex has been well suited to the intensive hands on sessions going on this week.
It has been a long day and full of rug washing and pre-inspection-hands on.
get your feet wet- do it don't watch - fun day. And I mean this first day has been a full on intensive day.
Being given a pile of rugs and told ok pre,-inspect- CAREFULLY and boy there were some subtle surprises, both during the inspection and later in the pits. I think I caught Lisa smiling to herself when the evil surprises revealed themselves. I bet she was thinking the last two months of distance learning - these folks get it!
It is a fantastic learning environment. Its set up so real world it doesn't feel like its being taught, but more like I was working the rugs and being fed advice and directed as if I was an apprentice.
All the tools,
all the rugs, wool on wool, wool on cotton, rayon, silk olefin, tea washed, chemical washed..... and more
coffee stains, piss rugs, over dyed, fugitive dye, bleeders, delams, fringes, you name it - we worked on it
extraction? how many ways do you want to do it. we did at least 4 or 5.
pit aggitation 6 ways of Sunday...
drying - lots of different fans of all types - flat drying hang drying face down drying..... on and on
I can't forget to mention and give thanks to Mike Kerner from Sapphire Scientific who when teamed with Jim Pemberton gave a really good insight into why their solutions were formulated the way they were.
Tons of questions from everyone but really great experienced practical answers back from Lisa and Jim as well as advice from the more experienced members of our group. The nice thing is the questions were all on the ground rug washing questions because the first two months of the Textile Pro program were all on line and private forum interaction dealing with the basics. So when we all got to Pembertons we were all on the same page and up to speed.
The course goes into another mode after this hands on week that works on other business aspects of rug and fine textile cleaning.
Bottom line: I've learned a hell of a lot of valuable practical advise that has given me the skills to more thoroughly clean - change that, WASH rugs, keep me out of trouble with the difficult ones and improve my company profit.
And we still haven't finished with the hands on sessions!
No, there wasn't a centrifuge there.
With out doubt the best delivered instruction I have ever had in this industry.
Lisa and Jim should take great pride in knowing they have definitely set the bar higher on rug and fine textile course content and delivery.
Lisa and Jim are great instructors and the Pemberton multi-building complex has been well suited to the intensive hands on sessions going on this week.
It has been a long day and full of rug washing and pre-inspection-hands on.
get your feet wet- do it don't watch - fun day. And I mean this first day has been a full on intensive day.
Being given a pile of rugs and told ok pre,-inspect- CAREFULLY and boy there were some subtle surprises, both during the inspection and later in the pits. I think I caught Lisa smiling to herself when the evil surprises revealed themselves. I bet she was thinking the last two months of distance learning - these folks get it!
It is a fantastic learning environment. Its set up so real world it doesn't feel like its being taught, but more like I was working the rugs and being fed advice and directed as if I was an apprentice.
All the tools,
all the rugs, wool on wool, wool on cotton, rayon, silk olefin, tea washed, chemical washed..... and more
coffee stains, piss rugs, over dyed, fugitive dye, bleeders, delams, fringes, you name it - we worked on it
extraction? how many ways do you want to do it. we did at least 4 or 5.
pit aggitation 6 ways of Sunday...
drying - lots of different fans of all types - flat drying hang drying face down drying..... on and on
I can't forget to mention and give thanks to Mike Kerner from Sapphire Scientific who when teamed with Jim Pemberton gave a really good insight into why their solutions were formulated the way they were.
Tons of questions from everyone but really great experienced practical answers back from Lisa and Jim as well as advice from the more experienced members of our group. The nice thing is the questions were all on the ground rug washing questions because the first two months of the Textile Pro program were all on line and private forum interaction dealing with the basics. So when we all got to Pembertons we were all on the same page and up to speed.
The course goes into another mode after this hands on week that works on other business aspects of rug and fine textile cleaning.
Bottom line: I've learned a hell of a lot of valuable practical advise that has given me the skills to more thoroughly clean - change that, WASH rugs, keep me out of trouble with the difficult ones and improve my company profit.
And we still haven't finished with the hands on sessions!
No, there wasn't a centrifuge there.
With out doubt the best delivered instruction I have ever had in this industry.
Lisa and Jim should take great pride in knowing they have definitely set the bar higher on rug and fine textile course content and delivery.
