ROB ALLEN 👏👏👏 You did it again with all those Tips, Tricks, and pointers. TMF is your go-to channel for (Carpet, Tile, and Grout Extraction Service.🎉🎉🎉
@Robert Allen Jr Thank You! I do appreciate the kind words. Long story short I was working in a retail store before starting my business a few years ago. Multiple customers would come up to me saying. It seems like you have (Magical hands and your work sticks out from the rest). If you ever start a cleaning company I would use your services.
Great video, Rob! Your content has been incredibly helpful for our carpet cleaning business. We hope all is well and look forward to more valuable insights from you!
I started watching your videos when I started our business. I quickly realized that your products are superior to others. I never worried about call backs after I started using Unchained; it makes for very happy customers! Thanks for all you do to help us little guys/gals. 😊
Great information as always. Being a new cleaner just starting out, your channel is a great resource for any questions that I often have. And the products are top notch. Thanks.
Good to know. This type feedback shows the information is practical, applicable and easy to implement. That, rather than total views, has always been my goal. It’s satisfying to know a difference is being made.
What a phenomenal video! Thank you for taking the time to put it together. If I may add a comment regarding the air conditioning you don't want to set the air conditioner to low because the cool moist air circulating will keep the carpet wet. What a great idea with the wand with the window so you can see how much moisture is coming through! You guys are really a benefit to the industry
The 3 changes we made that GREATLY decreased our dry times: Running 2 inch to the wand (no whip hose), using a filter with 2 vac ports van side and 1 job side (150 CFM increase), and pre-scrubbing traffic areas. The scrubbing lets you run lower psi and speeds up dry times big time. We went from 12hr "dry to the touch" to 1hr "dry to the touch" (sub 10% on moisture meter) with the same TM.
Great video, Rob! I'm new to the business and find the chemical part of the business, very confusing. What kind of rinse agent would be used with black label pre-spray? An acidic rinse?
He speaks of hose management then shows the hose rubbing on the corner of the hallway. Where are your corner protectors? He speaks of faster dry times then says a whip line is ok to use. LOL How about turning the fan too constant running on the home heating/cooling system? yes, of course. That rake will do nothing on level loop Berber, except for pull a snag.
Corner guards are throughout the video in key places. I stand by a whip hose is fine upstairs with low soil loads. And I stand by taking it off downstairs for heavier soil loads. Yes one can turn the fan to manual. The home was for demo purposes and even loop pile benefits from raking especially when using deo’s and protectors. And in 42 years of cleaning I’ve never seen or heard of a soft flexible plastic bristle cause a snag. Plus a true pro would see that while pre vacuuming and fix it as a courtesy. Thanks for watching the entire video and commenting.
You maybe right but that doesn't make the content wrong. Many are new to the game with no formal training. These videos fill in the gap. This leads to better results and a better industry for us all.
I HATE, HATE, HATE carpet!!! Carpet is a dirty, disgusting way to live. Think about it. Hard flooring can become quite dirty inside of 2-3 weeks even if you do not wear street shoes inside your home, which I do not. You can mop hard flooring, but you cannot clean carpet every 2-3 weeks. It accrues dirt and allergens for months on end, and you clean it maybe once per year. Even if you cleaned it every 6 months, it is still a dirty way to live, and the cost to clean every 6 months can run you hundreds upon hundreds of dollars each year. If anyone doubts how filthy carpet is, then I encourage you to lay down clean, white towels on your floors and walk on them just as if they were carpet and see how filthy they will become in just a matter of a few days even if you do not wear street shoes in your home. I believe the main reason you find carpet in rental properties is because it is generally the cheapest flooring you can put down. Good, one sheet vinyls are much more expensive than carpet. I much prefer vinyl, tile, and hardwood over carpet. If you have allergies, carpet not only holds onto dirt, it holds onto dust (which means dust mites) and a lot of other allergens. Also, some of the products used to make carpet can cause respiratory problems. For example, did you know carpet is made with formaldehyde? I urge everyone to think about this before you lease a home with carpet. That being said, the rental I recently leased has carpet in two rooms. It was a VERY SERIOUS strike against the property as far as I am concerned. However, the housing market has been so outrageous since Covid with so few properties available and so many people competing for them that I rather reluctantly decided to lease the property because the floor space, location, and the fact that it is a small single family home otherwise fit my needs very well. And, I knew if I turned it down that I could be searching for another 2 months minimum for something that would be even a halfway good fit for me. The property was FILTHY at the time I toured it, but the landlords told me the tenants had just moved out, and they had not yet had time to get it fixed up. I believed they would do, but it was misplaced trust. The day I returned to sign the lease---3 weeks later, the property was still FILTHY and smelled bad. The amount of labour and money to make it truly move-in ready was staggering. I mopped and rinsed the vinyl flooring in the living room over and over again. The water kept coming up BLACK. I literally mopped, waited for it dry, then rinsed, and waited for it to dry, and then repeated this process over and over again one day from 11 a.m. until 11 p.m. at night. No exaggeration. The floor was so filthy that it ruined my mop. This was ONE room. I had to do the same for the kitchen floor. Now, the owners claimed they cleaned (I wonder how?) the carpet in the two bedrooms at the end of September after their FILHTY tenant moved out, however, they did not clean the vinyl and other hard flooring, and many feet apparently walked the filth from the hard flooring back onto the carpet. I have no idea who or how the carpet in the two bedrooms was cleaned anyway, if it was indeed cleaned. I have a feeling it may have been cleaned and then left to dry in a hot, humid house (weather here is still very hot in September). So, I had to pay a reputable carpet cleaning service (Stanley Steamer) to come clean the carpet after I cleaned the hard flooring. Cost: $165 which included deodorising because the whole place smelled. (Just as an aside, the stove was so FILTHY and had been cleaned so many times over the years that even after it was professionally cleaned, it was still too dirty and clapped out to use. I had to complain and take a had line for the landlords to replace it. I am still appalled that they would hand over a property in this condition. The refrigerator was much the same as everything else. I shudder to think what the people who lived here before me must have been like. How can ANYONE live in such filth? I suppose I could understand drug addicts living like that, but I do not see how anyone else could live that way, and for the owners to pass on a property in this condition to a new tenant that they expected to have for years to come is beyond me.) Owners also refused to replace FILTHY blinds that were likely installed in the 1980s. Cost to me for 5 replacement mini blinds: $150. I still have not paid anyone to install them. I was quoted $100 to install them. My old vacuum is great for hard flooring, but it is worthless for carpet, so I expected I would have to buy a vacuum, but I never expected I would have to pay to clean carpet and replace 5 blinds and put in enough labour hours myself that if I were a paid housecleaner, I likely would have charge $900 or more to do the work. So, whilst I only expected to have to buy a vacuum that will work on carpet, I never expected HUNDREDS of dollars more to clean this place and make it truly liveable. The vacuum will cost: anywhere from $175 up. I still have not decided which one to buy. None of them I have looked at seem very well made and worth their price tags. Because the property was not move-in ready on November 1st, I also ended up paying an unexpected $300 additional month's storage on my storage unit because their was no way I could get the property truly clean and move-in ready in time to avoid paying an extra month's storage. All in all, so far the cost to move-in to the rental property (not counting the cost of removal men to move heavy furniture. ($550+) and transfer fees for utilities, is close to $1K thanks to low rent landlords (not that this place is cheap to lease because it is not!). This is the rotten rental market we have been in since Covid. I think it is even worse in some areas like Florida and California for example. I honestly am not sure what I will do once my lease is up. Moving is so expensive not to mention physically and emotionally exhausting. If the pendulum swings back more in favour of renters than landlords, then I may move. I cannot see myself living here for 15-20 years as originally planned unless perhaps the landlords replace that carpet with hard flooring and proves they can be better at maintenance than they have been so far, but I do not expect it. Leopard do not change their spots, and if you are unfortunate enough to do business with anyone who has a slumlord mentally, you cannot realistically expect them to change.
Actually it's proven that carpets are healthier and cut down on allergens dramatically. For a while allergy Drs were telling patients to replace carpets with hard surfaces. In a short period of time they all were faring worse. Why? Because carpet acts like a filter. But like a lifetime filter, the filter needs to be cleaned on a regular basis. So all things being equal carpets are the best furnishing in. a home overall.
I am sorry, but I have to disagree with you. I lived on different types of carpet over the decades, and keeping them clean is a nightmare especially if you wear street shoes inside the home, which I do not. Hard floors such as hardwood, laminate, vinyl, and tile are easily swept and quickly vacuumed on a daily basis, and if you have a high quality vacuum such as Sebo with an hospital grade filter, your vacuum seals in 99.97% of what it picks up, and just as with picking up anything off of hard floors as opposed to carpet, it is easier to pick up and comes away cleaner on hard floors as opposed to carpeted floors. Most homes in Europe and the UK eschewed carpet in favour of hard flooring a long, long time ago. Some may have nice area rugs, possibly antiques, but very few have carpet. Only the U.S. still clings to carpet, and I believe this is true because carpet is some of the cheapest flooring you can buy, but it is hardly hygienic. I have put down top quality vinyl before that cost several times more than carpet. If I had no choice but to have carpet in my home, I would prefer very low pile. The higher the pile, the more it holds, and it holds a lot of stuff way down in the padding which you cannot vacuum out. I know this from personal experience regardless of what allergists say, but allergists agree with me. I have been allergy tested twice and was found allergic to dust. Apart from dust, and anyone who is interested in this can google it, carpet harbours a lot of germs. Anyone who wears street shoes indoors is tracking in all sorts of bacteria and other germs. Tests show most street shoes worn indoors brings in fecal matter as well. You can mop and disinfect hard floors weekly or even more often if you are so inclined, but you cannot do that with carpet. For these reasons and more, I truly hate carpet, and I have I walked away from rental property that I really liked a lot solely because it had carpet. Here is a quote from one article from The Guardian about what you bring onto your floors if you wear street shoes inside: "Shoes worn outside can be vectors for all kinds of dirt and microbes - we already know this - but just how dangerous is it? According to the experts, about one-third of the matter building up inside your home comes from outside, much of it being tracked in on the soles of our shoes. And on those shoes, they have found “a high prevalence of microbiological pathogens”. Now let me stop here and say not all dirt is bad dirt. Some household germs can actually be useful in helping build up a child’s immune system, for example. But the real issue is that some of the disease-causing organisms found on our shoes and floors are drug-resistant, causing illnesses that are difficult to treat. 'Add in cancer-causing toxins from asphalt road residue,' scientists say, 'and endocrine-disrupting lawn chemicals, and you might view the filth on your shoes in a new light." There are plenty more articles on-line about all of this for anyone who wants to read more about it. Of course, many people like carpet despite all of these concerns, so I say to each his/her own. @@TruckMountForums
ROB ALLEN 👏👏👏
You did it again with all those Tips, Tricks, and pointers.
TMF is your go-to channel for (Carpet, Tile, and Grout Extraction Service.🎉🎉🎉
Much appreciated and awesome company name. How’d you come up with it?
@Robert Allen Jr
Thank You!
I do appreciate the kind words.
Long story short I was working in a retail store before starting my business a few years ago.
Multiple customers would come up to me saying.
It seems like you have (Magical hands and your work sticks out from the rest).
If you ever start a cleaning company I would use your services.
So I would think of things that could be magical.
And one day it popped into my head GENIE IN A BUCKET, LLC.
That's how we got our name.
Great video, Rob! Your content has been incredibly helpful for our carpet cleaning business. We hope all is well and look forward to more valuable insights from you!
Thanks. Always glad to help.
I started watching your videos when I started our business.
I quickly realized that your products are superior to others.
I never worried about call backs after I started using Unchained; it makes for very happy customers! Thanks for all you do to help us little guys/gals. 😊
And thank you for the positive feedback and support. Know it’s appreciated!
Great information as always. Being a new cleaner just starting out, your channel is a great resource for any questions that I often have. And the products are top notch. Thanks.
Good to know. This type feedback shows the information is practical, applicable and easy to implement. That, rather than total views, has always been my goal. It’s satisfying to know a difference is being made.
What a phenomenal video! Thank you for taking the time to put it together. If I may add a comment regarding the air conditioning you don't want to set the air conditioner to low because the cool moist air circulating will keep the carpet wet. What a great idea with the wand with the window so you can see how much moisture is coming through! You guys are really a benefit to the industry
Appreciate the extra tip and appreciate the commendation!
The 3 changes we made that GREATLY decreased our dry times: Running 2 inch to the wand (no whip hose), using a filter with 2 vac ports van side and 1 job side (150 CFM increase), and pre-scrubbing traffic areas. The scrubbing lets you run lower psi and speeds up dry times big time. We went from 12hr "dry to the touch" to 1hr "dry to the touch" (sub 10% on moisture meter) with the same TM.
Good stuff. I’ve incorporated those points in a later video. 😉
WRT tech here. This is really good stuff. I loved the tip about the air freshener in the air mover lip. Well played sir.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for the refresher course outlining proper procedures to achieve superior results . Good stuff!!!
Thanks for the love Raymond!
Great video Rob! Sir CleanAlot approves this message 😆
Much appreciated.
Thank you for taking the time to make the video!
Appreciate that Amanda. Most don’t know the time, energy and expense to create good content. Thanks for recognizing it.
Great video Rob, I do all those steps except at grooming step I go back over with wand again to extract a little more so it’s my grooming tool.
Thanks and your way works too!
Very awesome! Thank you for all of the awesome content!!
Thanks Zack. Watch for a video coming in June on 2023 Tips & Tricks. I got some good ones!
Rob, I’m curious about post bonneting. Properly done, is there any risk to the carpet fibers for a warranty claim?
Love your video's, and your wands and chemicals are awesome. Thanks for all the great video's
Thanks Jesse. I always try to make my videos practical for professionals. Much appreciated.
Tmf is the best love the videos and products keep it up guys!
Thanks for the support!
Just started a carpet cleaning business. Is a 100 psi carpet cleaning machine not good enough, or should I go with 500psi portable machine?
500 is ideal. Join our FB private group for faster answers!
SPOT ON Rob !!
All pun intended? J/K thanks!
Great video as always Rob Thanks
Much appreciated.
Great info Rob. Always enjoy watching your vids!
Thank you my friend.
Great pointers , and information !
Much appreciated.
Nice rig. They dry really FAST with the 870 too
Yes they do with both. But the tech still makes the biggest difference wouldn’t you say?
Great video, Rob! I'm new to the business and find the chemical part of the business, very confusing. What kind of rinse agent would be used with black label pre-spray? An acidic rinse?
Thanks. Hey do you have one of our Mix Guides??
Now that you mention it, I believe I do.
Reminds me I really need to invest in a 175 🤔 great video!
If you invent in a 175 I recommend a 13”. That’s sufficient for homes, easier to transport, easier to lift and still does a great job.
@@robertallenjr5870 Thank you!
Great Video, Thanks For The Info
Thank you. Always glad to help.
Great video as always!
Much appreciated!
Thanks Jason, hope all is well.
Very good information
Much appreciated.
All great tips!
Thanks and watch for a new video on 2023 Tips & Tricks. Got some really cool ones coming up!
He speaks of hose management then shows the hose rubbing on the corner of the hallway. Where are your corner protectors? He speaks of faster dry times then says a whip line is ok to use. LOL How about turning the fan too constant running on the home heating/cooling system? yes, of course. That rake will do nothing on level loop Berber, except for pull a snag.
Corner guards are throughout the video in key places.
I stand by a whip hose is fine upstairs with low soil loads. And I stand by taking it off downstairs for heavier soil loads.
Yes one can turn the fan to manual.
The home was for demo purposes and even loop pile benefits from raking especially when using deo’s and protectors. And in 42 years of cleaning I’ve never seen or heard of a soft flexible plastic bristle cause a snag. Plus a true pro would see that while pre vacuuming and fix it as a courtesy. Thanks for watching the entire video and commenting.
Is that an aero tech ?
Yes it is.
Yep
Much appreciated.
Why does all your tools look new 👀 mine always look beat 🤣
I’m a clean freak. 😅
Not rocket science. If someone doesn't know the relevant, truthful points you made they have no business in business.
You maybe right but that doesn't make the content wrong. Many are new to the game with no formal training. These videos fill in the gap. This leads to better results and a better industry for us all.
I HATE, HATE, HATE carpet!!! Carpet is a dirty, disgusting way to live. Think about it. Hard flooring can become quite dirty inside of 2-3 weeks even if you do not wear street shoes inside your home, which I do not. You can mop hard flooring, but you cannot clean carpet every 2-3 weeks. It accrues dirt and allergens for months on end, and you clean it maybe once per year. Even if you cleaned it every 6 months, it is still a dirty way to live, and the cost to clean every 6 months can run you hundreds upon hundreds of dollars each year. If anyone doubts how filthy carpet is, then I encourage you to lay down clean, white towels on your floors and walk on them just as if they were carpet and see how filthy they will become in just a matter of a few days even if you do not wear street shoes in your home.
I believe the main reason you find carpet in rental properties is because it is generally the cheapest flooring you can put down. Good, one sheet vinyls are much more expensive than carpet. I much prefer vinyl, tile, and hardwood over carpet. If you have allergies, carpet not only holds onto dirt, it holds onto dust (which means dust mites) and a lot of other allergens. Also, some of the products used to make carpet can cause respiratory problems. For example, did you know carpet is made with formaldehyde?
I urge everyone to think about this before you lease a home with carpet.
That being said, the rental I recently leased has carpet in two rooms. It was a VERY SERIOUS strike against the property as far as I am concerned. However, the housing market has been so outrageous since Covid with so few properties available and so many people competing for them that I rather reluctantly decided to lease the property because the floor space, location, and the fact that it is a small single family home otherwise fit my needs very well. And, I knew if I turned it down that I could be searching for another 2 months minimum for something that would be even a halfway good fit for me. The property was FILTHY at the time I toured it, but the landlords told me the tenants had just moved out, and they had not yet had time to get it fixed up. I believed they would do, but it was misplaced trust.
The day I returned to sign the lease---3 weeks later, the property was still FILTHY and smelled bad. The amount of labour and money to make it truly move-in ready was staggering. I mopped and rinsed the vinyl flooring in the living room over and over again. The water kept coming up BLACK. I literally mopped, waited for it dry, then rinsed, and waited for it to dry, and then repeated this process over and over again one day from 11 a.m. until 11 p.m. at night. No exaggeration. The floor was so filthy that it ruined my mop. This was ONE room. I had to do the same for the kitchen floor.
Now, the owners claimed they cleaned (I wonder how?) the carpet in the two bedrooms at the end of September after their FILHTY tenant moved out, however, they did not clean the vinyl and other hard flooring, and many feet apparently walked the filth from the hard flooring back onto the carpet. I have no idea who or how the carpet in the two bedrooms was cleaned anyway, if it was indeed cleaned. I have a feeling it may have been cleaned and then left to dry in a hot, humid house (weather here is still very hot in September). So, I had to pay a reputable carpet cleaning service (Stanley Steamer) to come clean the carpet after I cleaned the hard flooring. Cost: $165 which included deodorising because the whole place smelled. (Just as an aside, the stove was so FILTHY and had been cleaned so many times over the years that even after it was professionally cleaned, it was still too dirty and clapped out to use. I had to complain and take a had line for the landlords to replace it. I am still appalled that they would hand over a property in this condition. The refrigerator was much the same as everything else. I shudder to think what the people who lived here before me must have been like. How can ANYONE live in such filth? I suppose I could understand drug addicts living like that, but I do not see how anyone else could live that way, and for the owners to pass on a property in this condition to a new tenant that they expected to have for years to come is beyond me.)
Owners also refused to replace FILTHY blinds that were likely installed in the 1980s. Cost to me for 5 replacement mini blinds: $150. I still have not paid anyone to install them. I was quoted $100 to install them. My old vacuum is great for hard flooring, but it is worthless for carpet, so I expected I would have to buy a vacuum, but I never expected I would have to pay to clean carpet and replace 5 blinds and put in enough labour hours myself that if I were a paid housecleaner, I likely would have charge $900 or more to do the work. So, whilst I only expected to have to buy a vacuum that will work on carpet, I never expected HUNDREDS of dollars more to clean this place and make it truly liveable. The vacuum will cost: anywhere from $175 up. I still have not decided which one to buy. None of them I have looked at seem very well made and worth their price tags.
Because the property was not move-in ready on November 1st, I also ended up paying an unexpected $300 additional month's storage on my storage unit because their was no way I could get the property truly clean and move-in ready in time to avoid paying an extra month's storage.
All in all, so far the cost to move-in to the rental property (not counting the cost of removal men to move heavy furniture. ($550+) and transfer fees for utilities, is close to $1K thanks to low rent landlords (not that this place is cheap to lease because it is not!). This is the rotten rental market we have been in since Covid. I think it is even worse in some areas like Florida and California for example.
I honestly am not sure what I will do once my lease is up. Moving is so expensive not to mention physically and emotionally exhausting. If the pendulum swings back more in favour of renters than landlords, then I may move. I cannot see myself living here for 15-20 years as originally planned unless perhaps the landlords replace that carpet with hard flooring and proves they can be better at maintenance than they have been so far, but I do not expect it. Leopard do not change their spots, and if you are unfortunate enough to do business with anyone who has a slumlord mentally, you cannot realistically expect them to change.
Actually it's proven that carpets are healthier and cut down on allergens dramatically. For a while allergy Drs were telling patients to replace carpets with hard surfaces. In a short period of time they all were faring worse. Why? Because carpet acts like a filter. But like a lifetime filter, the filter needs to be cleaned on a regular basis. So all things being equal carpets are the best furnishing in. a home overall.
I am sorry, but I have to disagree with you. I lived on different types of carpet over the decades, and keeping them clean is a nightmare especially if you wear street shoes inside the home, which I do not. Hard floors such as hardwood, laminate, vinyl, and tile are easily swept and quickly vacuumed on a daily basis, and if you have a high quality vacuum such as Sebo with an hospital grade filter, your vacuum seals in 99.97% of what it picks up, and just as with picking up anything off of hard floors as opposed to carpet, it is easier to pick up and comes away cleaner on hard floors as opposed to carpeted floors.
Most homes in Europe and the UK eschewed carpet in favour of hard flooring a long, long time ago. Some may have nice area rugs, possibly antiques, but very few have carpet. Only the U.S. still clings to carpet, and I believe this is true because carpet is some of the cheapest flooring you can buy, but it is hardly hygienic. I have put down top quality vinyl before that cost several times more than carpet. If I had no choice but to have carpet in my home, I would prefer very low pile. The higher the pile, the more it holds, and it holds a lot of stuff way down in the padding which you cannot vacuum out. I know this from personal experience regardless of what allergists say, but allergists agree with me. I have been allergy tested twice and was found allergic to dust.
Apart from dust, and anyone who is interested in this can google it, carpet harbours a lot of germs. Anyone who wears street shoes indoors is tracking in all sorts of bacteria and other germs. Tests show most street shoes worn indoors brings in fecal matter as well. You can mop and disinfect hard floors weekly or even more often if you are so inclined, but you cannot do that with carpet. For these reasons and more, I truly hate carpet, and I have I walked away from rental property that I really liked a lot solely because it had carpet.
Here is a quote from one article from The Guardian about what you bring onto your floors if you wear street shoes inside:
"Shoes worn outside can be vectors for all kinds of dirt and microbes - we already know this - but just how dangerous is it? According to the experts, about one-third of the matter building up inside your home comes from outside, much of it being tracked in on the soles of our shoes. And on those shoes, they have found “a high prevalence of microbiological pathogens”.
Now let me stop here and say not all dirt is bad dirt. Some household germs can actually be useful in helping build up a child’s immune system, for example. But the real issue is that some of the disease-causing organisms found on our shoes and floors are drug-resistant, causing illnesses that are difficult to treat. 'Add in cancer-causing toxins from asphalt road residue,' scientists say, 'and endocrine-disrupting lawn chemicals, and you might view the filth on your shoes in a new light."
There are plenty more articles on-line about all of this for anyone who wants to read more about it.
Of course, many people like carpet despite all of these concerns, so I say to each his/her own. @@TruckMountForums