12-02-2014, 12:17 PM
Having been a vct maintenance/stripping guy most of my life, I really like how much easier encapping is on the body compared to vct work. As I quickly approach the big Five-O, I feel the aches and pains that were never there before after stripping and waxing a 20,000 square foot grocery store in one night. PLUS... Much less equipment to transport and haul into the job site. It's ridiculous how much stuff one needs to drag into a store for a strip job AND I usually need 4 guys. Cleaning commercial carpets was something our business turned down for years when asked if we do carpets.
What I like is the fact that I can do most jobs by myself with very little to drag into the jobsite.
And I really like how people treat you so differently as a carpet cleaner compared to a vct maintenance tech. Did not matter that we have nice work shirts with our logo, nice work trucks, lettered trailers, super expensive propane buffers, strippers and huge auto scrubbers, to the majority of the population, we are mop jockeys or regular janitors (not that there is anything wrong with that) without "Real" jobs.
Not so when you push in a vacuum cleaner and a Cimex. Once they see the carpet magically getting cleaned, you then become a person to the employees, etc. of the accounts we clean.
What I like is the fact that I can do most jobs by myself with very little to drag into the jobsite.
And I really like how people treat you so differently as a carpet cleaner compared to a vct maintenance tech. Did not matter that we have nice work shirts with our logo, nice work trucks, lettered trailers, super expensive propane buffers, strippers and huge auto scrubbers, to the majority of the population, we are mop jockeys or regular janitors (not that there is anything wrong with that) without "Real" jobs.
Not so when you push in a vacuum cleaner and a Cimex. Once they see the carpet magically getting cleaned, you then become a person to the employees, etc. of the accounts we clean.