your_good_sons
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I do a retail store that is carpeted, a beauty supply shop. If you went back 10 years ago, we had a chain in this market and one independent. As best as I can determine, there are 8 of them today if you count a barber supply. You go out of my market and there aren't many, not much market for the product outside the urban areas.
I clean the carpet in one, about 900 sf, four times a year. They are an independent that opened in 2005 in a 400 sf store. When I first got them, in 2011, they were in a 2,000 sf store that was half salon, half store. I actually did the "move out" cleaning in the old store as well as the "move in" cleaning in the new one the same week. The 400 sf store they were once in I cleaned once not long ago. It has been empty about 5 years.
Three times a year I bonnet clean and in the spring I do hot water extraction. This is nothing. The HWE is under $150 and I'm done in like 90 minutes. The bonnet cleaning is just over $100 and it takes maybe an hour.
This week they call me in to bonnet clean. I say you mean HWE? All that snow and salt build up. No, money is tight. They have to save $50 right now. They don't expect to need me again until this time next year for a bonnet cleaning. There is no way I can get away with bonnet cleaning a carpet that has been neglected for a year. I haven't even said that.
I'm just blown away by the need to save such a small amount of money. Retailers in particular seem to be holding back.
I clean the carpet in one, about 900 sf, four times a year. They are an independent that opened in 2005 in a 400 sf store. When I first got them, in 2011, they were in a 2,000 sf store that was half salon, half store. I actually did the "move out" cleaning in the old store as well as the "move in" cleaning in the new one the same week. The 400 sf store they were once in I cleaned once not long ago. It has been empty about 5 years.
Three times a year I bonnet clean and in the spring I do hot water extraction. This is nothing. The HWE is under $150 and I'm done in like 90 minutes. The bonnet cleaning is just over $100 and it takes maybe an hour.
This week they call me in to bonnet clean. I say you mean HWE? All that snow and salt build up. No, money is tight. They have to save $50 right now. They don't expect to need me again until this time next year for a bonnet cleaning. There is no way I can get away with bonnet cleaning a carpet that has been neglected for a year. I haven't even said that.
I'm just blown away by the need to save such a small amount of money. Retailers in particular seem to be holding back.