05-15-2015, 02:09 PM
Hey everyone, Matthew here. I love the overall positive atmosphere of the board, and research showed me the products, machines, and chemicals at ES are all top notch. I guess you can only read so many posts before you have to personally ask for direction specific to your situation, so I figure I'd throw it out there. I'll try not to be too long and boring, but essentially I'm in a career right now and I'm moving toward retirement. There's no way I'm just going to sit back and relax all day after hustling so long, and given both my wife and myself used to assist our parents in a janitorial company they had put together years back, I was drawn to cleaning, most specifically encap commercial cleaning.
So, essentially time is on my side, so to speak, when it comes to setting things up for a business, and I just want to make sure I do it right. While I'm working now, I plan on getting the tools and marketing materials together to start slowly building up a few commercial accounts, networking, and gaining low moisture experience. Then, even after retirement, my company has a "part time" program where you can retire and go part time with the company (from 8-20 hours a week, your choice), so I can use that as a little bit of a cushion while I continue to build things up slow and steady.
I wanted to pick the brains of the encap pros though, if you had to set things up all over again, what choices for equipment, chemicals, marketing procedures would you make? What if you had $5000 to work with? $10000?
There's a few somewhat no brainers that I've read. The Cimex seems to be the King of the low moisture commercial world. A strong, reliable vacuum with attachments seems like a necessity (luckily I've got all kinds of things laying around from my janitorial assistance days). It looks like there's a whole plethora of chemicals ES makes, as well as pads and bonnets. Any suggestions on what worked well for you on those?
Then, if you wanted to cross into residential it seems the Cimex isn't appropriate. Would an OP be the versatile choice to work toward, or the CRB? What about commercial non-carpeted surfaces?
Anyhow, just some things on my mind. I've got time to get things together the right way, so I just want to make some good choices. Thanks for any information folks.
So, essentially time is on my side, so to speak, when it comes to setting things up for a business, and I just want to make sure I do it right. While I'm working now, I plan on getting the tools and marketing materials together to start slowly building up a few commercial accounts, networking, and gaining low moisture experience. Then, even after retirement, my company has a "part time" program where you can retire and go part time with the company (from 8-20 hours a week, your choice), so I can use that as a little bit of a cushion while I continue to build things up slow and steady.
I wanted to pick the brains of the encap pros though, if you had to set things up all over again, what choices for equipment, chemicals, marketing procedures would you make? What if you had $5000 to work with? $10000?
There's a few somewhat no brainers that I've read. The Cimex seems to be the King of the low moisture commercial world. A strong, reliable vacuum with attachments seems like a necessity (luckily I've got all kinds of things laying around from my janitorial assistance days). It looks like there's a whole plethora of chemicals ES makes, as well as pads and bonnets. Any suggestions on what worked well for you on those?
Then, if you wanted to cross into residential it seems the Cimex isn't appropriate. Would an OP be the versatile choice to work toward, or the CRB? What about commercial non-carpeted surfaces?
Anyhow, just some things on my mind. I've got time to get things together the right way, so I just want to make some good choices. Thanks for any information folks.