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Without your advice I wouldnt have made any money today. Old customer calls me up and wants me to clean his carpets. He runs a farely decent size day care so I was happy to get the account back after 5 years. Seems the local big truck guy kept raising his rates almost to point of .30 psf and he wanted something cheaper. So I offer to clean at the rate we charged back in 02. Naturally he aggrees to it and we set up for sat.
Tech calls in today and says these carpets are hit and it will be all day job. I run out to check and realize my .10 psf wont cut it. Here comes the advice mickey gave and I scoffed at. I pulled out my 175 with green pad. Prespray with my juice (accelerated enzyme prespray) and proceeded to prescrub the carpets in advance of my tech extracting. Long story short owner couldnt believe the differanc with just prescrub let alone the extracting. I made 150.00 per hour and is well satisfied with results. Job was 2 miles down road so gas was kept at a minimum. Biggest expense was the 90.00 my tech made for 3 hours of work.
I guess you can teach an old dog new tricks. He will be calling me back to price out vct. Chalk one up for the small van owners.
Now if I can figure out how to get 2 pressure lines off one connection I may be able to bump up my sf cleaning rate and charge little less.
Tech calls in today and says these carpets are hit and it will be all day job. I run out to check and realize my .10 psf wont cut it. Here comes the advice mickey gave and I scoffed at. I pulled out my 175 with green pad. Prespray with my juice (accelerated enzyme prespray) and proceeded to prescrub the carpets in advance of my tech extracting. Long story short owner couldnt believe the differanc with just prescrub let alone the extracting. I made 150.00 per hour and is well satisfied with results. Job was 2 miles down road so gas was kept at a minimum. Biggest expense was the 90.00 my tech made for 3 hours of work.
I guess you can teach an old dog new tricks. He will be calling me back to price out vct. Chalk one up for the small van owners.
Now if I can figure out how to get 2 pressure lines off one connection I may be able to bump up my sf cleaning rate and charge little less.