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    DIY Carpet Cleaning
    DIY Carpet Cleaning
    DIY Carpet Cleaning
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    DIY Carpet Cleaning

    By Shane Daley

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    During 1999 to the present day, I have been running my own carpet cleaning service. But the last 6 years I have been focused only on the DIY customer. It was back then in 1999 when I discovered something very useful. The normal run of the mill carpet cleaning was all I knew back then. But after I started by business I was introduced to a method for cleaning carpets which changed my destiny.
    My guess is that I was prone to fail in my efforts to run my business. But something very helpful happened to me along the way. One day I was at my local cleaning supplies store buying carpet cleaning supplies. The manager of the shop was in the store and he came over to say hello. Apparently, the store was holding a free introductory seminar which was to be held by the people who manufacture the carpet cleaning supplies which I was using at the time. (Prochem)
    Yes I said, I would attend the seminar. What a great decision that proved to be. The lads from Prochem came to the store with all of the carpet cleaning equipment so that they could demonstrate it all. It was like a sales pitch. But the cleaning procedures they used and was showing was advanced and improved. On the day, I came away from that seminar with new knowledge and new hope.
    A few cheap tools later which I got from the cleaning supplies store and off I went into the sunlight to clean carpets. And wow, carpets I cleaned. Because the system I was using was so effective that customers referred me to their friends and family members like wild fire. My carpet cleaning took off and my business became a success.
    I happily cleaned thousands of carpets during the next few years. It was in 2008 when I realized I was needing help. So I took out an ad in the job center and waited for a response. Eventually someone came my way and I took them on, on a trial basis only. It was a very short while later that my telephone stopped ringing. it seemed that my first employee was not really into doing what he was doing. It was a job and that was money for him. I think that was about all. My customers let it be known that they was not happy with this employee. It wasn't long before I was forced to let him go. I knew that it would have been pointless trying to pump training into this man. He simply did not share my vision for the business.
    Employee number two who was much the same as employee number one.
    So, I had to make some changes to my business. I knew that trying to grow was not going to be easy. On my own it would have been impossible. So I decided to do something very harsh. I decided to stop cleaning carpets for people and to figure out another way where I could be of use to people. I knew that carpet cleaning was something I could work with, but not as I was before. The system I had been working with was very good. The carpet cleaning results was always better than what they would be without the new improved system. I figured that I could reach more people by teaching this stuff to DIY customers. And so, here it is. This is my book which I created for you, the DIY customer.
    I know that without a shadow of a doubt, if you use these carpet cleaning methods, you will get exceptionally good carpet cleaning results. Also, once you have read through the e book, you'll see instantly how the system works and why it gets such a great result. So, if you are a DIY carpet cleaning person. Or if you think you'd like to clean your carpets. Give this method a shot. Not only will you have a proven system that costs very little to use. You'll have it there so you can clean your carpets as and when you like. Its a great buzz to have a cleaned carpet. Its a better buzz to clean it yourself.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherShane Daley
    Release dateJun 26, 2015
    ISBN9781311720207
    DIY Carpet Cleaning
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    Shane Daley

    Started my own carpet cleaning service in 1999. Was a great success. Decided in 2008 to make some changes in my life. Moved away from Morecambe bay and came south to Folkestone. Learned about how to use the internet for my work. I have created 3 e books and 3 booklets. These products are on sale on the internet and on my blog. I don't go out cleaning carpets anymore now. I spend most of my working days on my computer at home.I would like to do lot's of travelling. I have an old motor home. I use it for returning to the north to visit my family. Hoping soon to go to Portugal. I live alone, but I'm not complaining. Got lots of ideas which I would like to see working. All of my work efforts now are on line. Always seeking new ideas. Hoping that I can find something that works for me.I like writing, internet marketing and helping people learn how to clean their carpets.

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      DIY Carpet Cleaning - Shane Daley

      Introduction

      Testing carpets for cleaning safely.

      So now you will have your mix of Pre-spray solution, simple.

      If colour transfers from the carpet into your tissue on test.

      Part two of Testing; includes identification of Carpet fibres and carpet construction.

      How do we avoid shrinking problems?

      The burn test gives you information about the carpet fibre.

      Here’s a list of what to look for and take note of. Your fibre burn test will give you indications of the fibre type.

      Simple water test gives you more information of the carpet fibre type.

      Increase your vacuum cleaning performance by 50% or more.

      Pre-spray and blot out with towel. Water based stains removed easily with a simple spray, blot and dab.

      Hot iron stain removal method.

      All other water based stains removed easily and simply.

      7 common carpet cleaning solutions and how to mix them.

      Now we move on to pre-spraying carpets for brush-agitation.

      Brush-agitate pre-sprayed solution deep into your carpet pile. Loosening soil and separating soils from your carpet fibres for easy rinsing.

      Creating air-flow while rinse extracting gives better cleaning – faster drying – you’ll be extracting much more solution using this technique.

      Setting your carpet to dry adds the final touch for superb carpet-cleaning results.

      Here’s how to clean your stairway carpet.

      Concentrate your efforts cleaning the centre of the step.

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      Introduction

      Let me start off by simply telling you how carpet cleaning will help. Outside the home there is thousands of chemicals, there’s pollen, dust and dirt. You’ll see people smoking. There will be cars on busy roads. In some areas people will be working with substances creating odours. You’ll come in to contact with people daily with all sorts of odours. Perfumes, hair sprays, deodorisers, after shaves ext,,,.

      In fact the outside world is a place fairly unclean. From it, people bring home everything they’ve been exposed too. All the dust, dirt, pollenchemicals and odours. All these pollutants will be in people’s hair and on cloths. They come home from outside and they start to re-disperse these irritants.

      Lucky, there is a safety net, which helps. That safety net is their carpet. That’s right, everything that’s brought into the home from outside is filtered. It’s re-dispersed off cloths and hair into their rooms onto their carpets. Then their carpet keeps it there in the fibres as it’s supposed too.

      It does a brilliant job too, imagine having no carpet! Dust would just float around the room; it would be breathed in all day. Every time someone walked across the lounge they would disturb the dust.

      That’s why people do have carpets. There are three main reasons.

      1/ They keep the place warm.

      2/ They filter the air in the room.

      3/ They keep sound levels down by absorbing noise.

      Not only do carpets accomplish the above three facts, they

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