Are they BLIND with no sense of smell??

100 pads ewww stankazz that must stink up the van eh?
who the hell wants to do laundry after working all damn day?

diva wrote: Doug; I can call you Doug right??? LOL We went through just over 100 pads I will say this last night is what John refers to as "digging for gold" It took around 8 hours, The pads are soaking as we speak I'll throw them in the washing machine in a minute and they will be good as new SO add an 5 minutes to throw them in and 5 minutes to take them out. We don't count soaking time.  Half way through the owner stop in and after seeing the results at that point and us explaining to him  that this is going to be a long thourough cleaning that would take extensive labour just to get it up to a managable point, we were able to double our price and secure an every two week contract with him.  Now that we have put in the tough work, the every two week jobs will be around 30 pads and 2 hours. we will then charge .32 per square ft but because of the results he didn't even cringe. We will be talking to him tomorrow about the tile and grout which makes up about 75% of the restaurant. He has already expressed his interest in this service on a by weekly basis aswell. CA~CHING CA~CHING Dougie thats all we are seeing! LOL Oh and when we checked back this morning it still looked great and the shocked looks for the staff said volumes!! PS. that was not a not so bright question at all if you don't pad then you don't know YOUR QUESTIONS ARE PERFECTLY LEGIT! P.s. There was so much grease on the carpet we actually did bring in the 400 psi porti just to see if it would make a difference (and possibly save our pads) however it didn't budge the dirt or grease so we went back to SCRUBBING with the OP brush.  We were thinking about you and Steamer while we were attempting to steam it LOL You guys were in our thoughts.LOL Oh and the one area we did use the HWE on  this morning when we went back had some wickback. Sorry  But just to show that we did attempt it.   DIVA

     

I hope so Diva, cause my products are real and they work just as well.

Diva:  You and SGK may have to take your show on the road.

Hooboy lives in Greensboro, NC. The GTA will just have to manage without me on the 19th. LOL. (I am interested in the results of the shootout, however. Please don't forget to post a lot of pictures.)

Hooboy that was very good. You must dabble in photography to come up with all that jargon. You are probably right in your estimation and we will leave it at that.

I honestly think Diva's two pictures are of the same location, but from two different perspectives with two different light sources, and with a lot of soil removed.

The upper picture's light is likely diffused sunlight coming from a window on the other side of the restaurant. The color of the wood room divider on the right is warm, with the shadow to it's right being singular and somewhat soft. (Multiple indoor lighting would cast multiple shadows from different locations, with incandescent or fluorescent colors.) The soiled carpet is grayish and pale, so this kind of lighting doesn’t help it look very good at all.

The lower picture is, I believe, of the same location, but standing 90° to the left of the first picture. The three dark soiled areas correspond exactly to each other, but from different perspectives.

Also, this lower picture has been illuminated solely by the camera’s flash, which makes the colors look much more vibrant. (Compare the color of the room divider’s wood paneling to the upper picture. The light source is clearly from the flash, and has really washed out the sunlight’s yellow warmth seen in the upper picture.) The carpet is also much cleaner, and combined with the enhanced light from the flash, really makes the carpet’s hue look vivid and even somewhat unnatural.

Its understandable that the differences of light temperature, the angle from which the pictures were taken, and the removal of a lot of soil have all combined to make both pictures look almost unrelated. (And except for the three dark soiled areas looking so similar to each other, I would think they were of different carpets.) Compared to each other though, I’m pretty sure these pictures are of the same area.

(Diva, did those soiled areas come out completely?)

For what its worth.

Doug, it is a confusing business. Just after we got it all straighted out, along comes a whole new approach to cleaning. Might be time to retire from this business.  Don't think a lot of our customers would settle for OP cleaning after years of TM cleaning

That's my opinion!