I have been away for a few days working with my new guy/boss in Illinois. Long story short; he already had a 175 RPM swing machine, we bought some juice from Rick (thanks bro) and used the rotary for several CDG restys he has. The process worked very very well. Flawless in fact.

I did not have my OP machine up there (I live in FL) so I had no real way to compare Rty vs Op. BUT I did feel impressed with the rty machine.

These accounts pay very little but they are how he closes some sales for window work. (I promised a short story) will these machines do well enough with the fiber plus pads, DS and some cursing?

Oh....currently, he uses a black or green pad to "drive" the "bonnets". Is there a real driver available to fit these swing machines? The black pads tend to ear out fast to slide on top of the cotton pad/bonnets.

Rick, can you put a real drvier in his hands?

Hi Phil. Great to have you back. So how did you like leaving Orange land for our midwest cold?

I'd love to hear more about how this worked well with restaurants. I haven't even tried to get any restaurant business because I don't have a very good HWE set up. I I knew I could take my OP and/or Rotary in there with a fiber pad and encap, I would go for it.

Jeremy

I have yet to see one where you can. However, there is no other learning place like a dirty resty....and they are all dirty.

Dr. JW,
Don't know if you want to take my advice, but with regard to restaurants what I'd do first is to find one with a very small carpeted area, something like 500 s.f. or at least under 1000 and just offer to do it for free (once) or for a meal credit. Use this place as your tester, once you get comfortable with it then you'll know what you might be getting yourself into with the bigger joints.

My first experience was posted here about a year ago with a Mexican joint, and I went down in a ball of fire.... not a good experience. So now the only place I touch is a little 800 sf cafe. I still don't have it to where I can do this place in a reasonable period of time so I still don't take on any others-- just my .02.

Hey Grant,

Your post is part of what scared me away LOL.

That's a good idea. I've noticed that Arby's is going with carpet and it looks like it's holding up. I've seen other places that aren't that bad too. Old Country Buffet on the other hand was bad enough that I had trouble finishing my meal.

If I do resty's at all, I'll cherry pick.

Jeremy

I have teamed up with a guy from Illy. He does an official a**-load of work (windows/carpet. He/we had a bennigans...most likey the grossest carpet i have ever seen...he pays a little over $135+/-. THAT is why it is so nasty. We evaluated his carpet (we padded a 10 SQF area) took 5 pads, both sides. The common assumption about resty carpet is it is grease. Not always true. In fact, the real issues as I see it is, they do not vacuum well if at all. They use little duster machines. so the "dirt" is dirt...but tons of it.

anyway, his carpets needed flushing so we gave him a price for the initial run of $300. One time deal, get his carpet back to normal then we go back to cheapville for the remainder of the year. He says "I'll find somebody else."

Okay.

Let me point out that his carpet looks the way it does because he has NOT found someone else...yet he complained to my guy about the way his carpet looks.

Here's the real deal guys:

P&L. Bonus and budget.

The corporate budget allows for new fixtures and such every so often. Example; the bean counters know their carpets will last say 7 years. So, they are gonna replace it at 7 no matter what. Not sooner, not later. so they are NOT going to spend one cent more to get it or keep it as clean as possible. Plus...the GM's bonus is linked to his costs. cleaning carpets is a cost.

Now, I was not the guy selling this job described above. No, instead it was my new boss/partner. He just said okay. But there is a way around this and that involves getting around the manager.

I will post about that if interest suggests but for now, suffice to say this carpet was too close to replacement time for him to move one cent on his current budget.

Keep in mind my business is more than carpets. We tint, restore glass, wash windows so we can afford to move up and down on one item but we make it up on the others.

Phil,

There is a pad driver that would work better on the rotary machines. It's a Malish driver. If you want to give me a cal at the ofice on Monday I can try to put you in touch with one.

Have a great weekend.







Rick Gelinas
rick@excellent-supply.com

i use the fiberplus max pads and releasit for 1 restaraunt but it doesnt do well on another.just vacuum well because they dont.

I have to keep in my mind their budget...and my time. Even the good vacuuming these nastys need can consume much valuable time.

Rick, I have given your message to my guy. He should contact you next week.