carpet research!

Well try one question at a time buddy.

I use all the products and believe the trends will be towards new cleaning chemistry. Its right around the corner, we have no choice.

This is a fairly new board with not alot of traffic.

Most grocery store type home carpet care products are garbage and need a professional to be removed.

I think we're going to start to use more environmentally friendly products in the future as well.(I already do)

Encapsulation is getting to be a big thing in the U.S.

If carpet cleaners are not more careful they may become a thing of the past.  The homeowners are confused very confused.  You have the bait and switch people Sears & the Bay etc.  You have room cleaners.  You have dry, bonnett powder and the biggest problem the steam cleaner.  why you ask?? because you can rent one and steam cleaners are missing the boat by not doing a much better job than the DIY people.  When you are too cheap to get educated, you leave things wet, you think you have the best system and cut the others down even though you don't know anything about their  results or proceedures.  I do not steam clean I use hot water extraction and as I have indicated earlier you are not a steam cleaner, or maybe you are if you want to be.  If you cannot justify your existance to your client than you should be doing something else like phone solitation.  Bacause if you are cheap enough everyone who is also cheap and only hiring you because you are cheaper than a rental DIY.

The cost is one reason.  Most cleaners sold with rental usually have to pass good house keeping and be kind og a general cleaner.  If stronger products were put on the market even with instruction and waviers the manufacture could be held liable when susie home maker screws up and destroys her carpet.  I have been involved with insurance claims where people overwet thrie carpets to the point of destroying them.  That usually manages to be covered.  But if she bleached or discolored because of the color that would be different the manufacturer and maybe the store would be involved then.  Being a Senior Carpet Inspector for quite few years I have been invovolved in such cases.

Doug I clean by truckmount, portable, rotary scrubber, bonnet, oscillating pad, dry compound, encapsulation, foam clean and have at least 10 different presprays.

Luckily I don't clean much broadloom these days, mostly area rugs.

 

MR. STEAMER wrote: doug wrote:  You have the bait and switch people Sears & the Bay etc.  HEY HEY WAIT JUST ONE MINUTE!!!!!! What bait and switch are you talking about...choose your words carefully before you use them.  We are all here to make money.

This was the post that started it all....and because doug had the IICRC avatar I attacked him and the IICRC.  I was upset how could he say such a thing.