Most home owners clean their own carpet?
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Topic: Most home owners clean their own carpet?
Posted By: splash_$$$_dash
Subject: Most home owners clean their own carpet?
Date Posted: 28/January/2008 at 10:37pm
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What % of home owners do you think are DIY in CANADA? and where are they renting from? I recently heard some mind boggling numbers from the US that most people clean their own! ------------- 
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Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 29/January/2008 at 12:52am
Probably at least 40%. They rent from the grocery store ------------- 
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Posted By: FriendlyHammer
Date Posted: 29/January/2008 at 1:33am
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Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 29/January/2008 at 1:47am
I disagree. If they were willing to pay more, they would just hire the cheapest guy in town and pay the same price. -------------
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Posted By: splash_$$$_dash
Date Posted: 29/January/2008 at 7:18am
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no cmaster a "do it yourselfer" personality always thinks he can do a better job -------------
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Posted By: MR. STEAMER
Date Posted: 29/January/2008 at 8:31am
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On the red board they say rug doctor does like 300 million dollars in sales a year, out of 42000 locations through out the states..
I think professional carpet cleaners only do 10% of all the carpets being done ------------- www.mr-steamer.com |
Posted By: cleanex
Date Posted: 29/January/2008 at 9:06am
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The truth is that 40% of residential carpet is never cleaned! ------------- DON ELDRED YOU CAN "STAND" ON OUR REPUTATION |
Posted By: splash_$$$_dash
Date Posted: 29/January/2008 at 9:27am
If 85% of the soil is dry then giving is really good vacuum 2x a week should keep the carpet pretty clean eh? 
Who needs water. -------------
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Posted By: cleanex
Date Posted: 29/January/2008 at 1:11pm
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For the 15% of oily soil that a vacuum will not remove, we should be thankful that most peole don't vacuum as often as they should. Let that oily soil go to work and attrack more soil until the appearance is no longer acceptable ------------- DON ELDRED YOU CAN "STAND" ON OUR REPUTATION |
Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 29/January/2008 at 4:19pm
Exactly -------------
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Posted By: doug
Date Posted: 29/January/2008 at 4:24pm
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what's the old ratio 15% of the soil take 85% of the time to remove and 85% of the soil takes 15% of the time to remove??? ------------- Just My opinion |
Posted By: splash_$$$_dash
Date Posted: 29/January/2008 at 4:35pm
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Let us pray.
Thank you lord for pigs, slobs, crappy vacs and nasty mofo's! -------------
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Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 29/January/2008 at 6:51pm
Those are mostly apartment dwellers -------------
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Posted By: doug
Date Posted: 29/January/2008 at 6:55pm
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or trailor park trash ------------- Just My opinion |
Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 29/January/2008 at 9:22pm
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Oh yeah -------------
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Posted By: cleanex
Date Posted: 30/January/2008 at 8:49am
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Not always apartment people, have seen some very expensive homes that pigs would not live in! ------------- DON ELDRED YOU CAN "STAND" ON OUR REPUTATION |
Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 30/January/2008 at 5:57pm
True, but more often we see it in rentals -------------
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