Dupray NEAT + Cleaning Carpet And Area Rug!
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- We cleaned this carpet and rug with pure steam, no chemicals! The "PLUS" added to the name of this model includes rapid heatup of around two minutes and the option to add more water with the machine on and running...two time saving features since running out of water is no longer an issue and the wait times between fill ups is gone.
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June 26, 2024
Nice video. Agree that the shorter hose is probably due to slightly lower temperature coming from the new continuous feed model. Could be that helps offset that loss.
Great point! It stays "in the green" more than with the previous model so whatever they had to do to do that was worth it.
Hey guys, loving the "plus" improvement. I was lucky enough to get a used neat,original, (used twice) off Facebook market place, pads never used. $75. Great kit. Liking the new one because it saves on reheating times. Did my lounge carpet, no chemicals, great.
We love demonstrating them because they just flat out work so they won't embarrass you (as long as you keep your claims of what it's about to do reasonable). People love the steam and the super-fast dry times! The "Plus" only makes everything easier!
Keep up the good work. Heard your not to well, so get better soon👍
I talked to the owner of Chief Steamers. They are huge in the auto detailing business. I am not sure, but he claims to know more about steam cleaners than any man alive. Chief recently brought out a lower powered steam cleaner for home use. I think the max is 75PSI. He had to use a 7' hose because at that PSI a longer hose lost too much pressure. My guess is that is why Neat is using a shorter hose. With the longer hose it was loosing too much pressure. Last year I bought a Neat. I moved and nothing cleans my refrigerator, microwave, mirrors, chrome faucets, and soap scum on my bathtub and sinks like a steam cleaner. I bought the Neat in particular from watching your videos on how it does on carpet. I previously used a Hoover Powerscrub, it works well, but being in a wheelchair it is hard to handle. I wanted something a lot easier to handle and a wand on the end of a hose sounded like just the thing. It works pretty well, on carpet and I have no complaints. I am 62 and my younger brother is 60. Walmart pays him an obscene amount of money and incredibly good benefits to drive a truck for them. I don't see him leaving anytime soon, but at 60 sleeping in the back of your truck has drawbacks. If he had options, things tend to change. If he could make say 30% of what he is making now, retirement suddenly becomes an option. We have both had other businesses in the past, so we are fully aware that running a business is not all sunshine and roses. We have both worked to 1am to get an important job out. We have both had employees that make more than us. I think the new Neat in a carpet cleaning business might fill the bill. My question is, if you no longer use vinegar to descale the boiler, how do you maintain it? The Joe Wheeler channel seems to be the only one that uses steam cleaning for carpet cleaning, so I am bugging you. If there is somebody else that I should bug, please let me know.
I don't know of anyone else using this method who also has a channel where you could molest them so keep us in your sights and "send it" LOL.
I've never figured out if the guy from Chief is trustworthy on some of his claims but what I do know is that Dupray has been very good to us since we made the first series of videos back in the first year they released the Neat.
I retired for my health (kidney failure and some other issues) but my brother still stays pretty busy cleaning and he'll be 60 soon.
I think for the amount of energy it takes to clean this way as compared to other methods that this is the best way for retirement age individuals to get into this business.
Younger people can drag hoses and mess with all the chemicals and other hassles while those older and wiser take it easy and still make their money.
Keeping in mind all the other stuff you can clean with these machines and the cost up front as opposed to far more expensive machines that can only do one thing and are much harder to transport and use it just doesn't make sense NOT to at least have a good steam cleaner as an option.
I don't see $150-$200 being better invested if you want to use your money to make money. The return-on-investment and how long it takes you to reimburse your expenditure can't be beaten.
The only hard parts are getting the work and doing the books, the work itself is easy!
@@JoeWheeler How would you get customers? The last time I was in business the Yellow Pages worked pretty well and I was pretty good at it. The Yellow Pages is no longer a thing. I understand that it is still around, mainly for the over 70 crowd that don't Google things. People are social animals. Not having somebody to keep him company will be tough on your brother. One of the businesses that I had was a pool service. I liked the basic chemistry that it involved. This is one of the things that I like watching your channel. Drawbacks for me included collecting money that was owed to me, I was very bad at it. It was also very lonely. I could leave in the morning and my wife was the last person that I would see and until I finished at night and saw her again. I would not see anybody in between, all day. I kind of wonder which will get to my brother first, driving alone all day or sleeping in the back of his truck. If he were not making 60,000 per year more than he has ever made, I think he would quit doing it fairly quickly. He has told me that it is mind numbingly boring, but when you are making as much as they are paying him you live with it. Kidney failure? That can be rough. Was it caused by the high blood pressure? As we get older we tend to have more of these health problems. When I was young I didn't have any. At 62 I take seven pills a day, mostly for type 2 diabetes and am in a wheelchair. That's the way it goes though. It is better than the alternative. I am not as physical as when I was younger, but I am wiser most of the time. I am not ready to call it quits just right now and get old gracefully. Carpet cleaning seems like something that is not really physically taxing and something that I can do as an older person and supplement my Social Security a little. There are some things that younger people are better at. Off and on I dealt poker. Children like to eat even when you had a bad month. Kind of unreasonable of them. When you got over 30 you slowed down a lot. It is a young man's game. Dragging around hoses sounds the same way. I noticed that when somebody is getting their carpet cleaned in my building, my wheelchair can't get past the hoses and I have to turn around and stay home for a few hours. Catering to the older crowd may be a good business plan. Walkers, wheelchairs, and hoses don't really mix.
If you can get listed on Google gets a lot of them but it is hard to jump through all their hoops.
Local FB groups catering to jobs or things for sell can work too but turn off comments on your posts unless you want competitors messaging your potential leads.
Word of mouth is the best but that takes a long time to build up.
My brother doesn't mind working alone and has a good time with the customers so it more social than pool maintenance.
He too is winding down from the days when work was all that mattered and so he has a relaxed lifestyle which works well for this market of less than 20,000 people with five or six carpet cleaners fighting for scraps...I feel sorry for younger people in todays economy and it seems to only be getting worse.
Type 2 Diabetes got me and not getting it diagnosed early meant tons of damage to my eyes and organs occurred so there is only so much that can be done but I have my Blood Glucose more or less under control so the kidneys are the worst of what's left. I take twenty meds a day and they help make me too drowsy/dizzy to do much but I have my good days too (like today I could stand long enough to shoot some video). I have a good chance of being able to live a long life still but I have to stop eating anything that tastes good...which may not be worth it.
I'm glad if our efforts help encourage you to enjoy a lifestyle that includes being active working as you are able because having something to get out of bed for makes a difference!
@@JoeWheeler You have been a big help. I don't know anywhere else to get it. As far as advertising is concerned, the world has changed and I have to change with it. It feels like all that consultants want is my money. I am one of those rare people that has never used Facebook and find all social media pretty unsocial. Currently I use word of mouth. Because of transportation problems all of my customers all in my complex. Old people talk to each other a lot. They really like wine parties. They are always on a "fixed income" and trying to save a buck. By charging about half of the price as people in business, I only need about one job per week to get by. I used to get paid minimum wage by the casino. It is called being a proposition player, the house pays you to play with your own money. Lots of people think this is a great way to make a living and then crash and burn in about six months. I have played poker for 30 years. Some people get hot for awhile, but very few of them have the discipline to fold hand after hand for hours if they are not getting cards, they tend to play hands that they should not. My wife read other players much better than I ever did, but she never had the discipline to keep throwing away hands so she had to stop playing entirely. Though a few exist, there are not many like me. The IRS asks you a lot of uncomfortable questions if you have income, but no job or business. It is a very nomadic lifestyle. I figured out when I was about 35 that I worked for 13 casinos in 10 states. Ironically I have never worked in Nevada. Some casinos don't have proposition players, then I take a job as a dealer and just play. I knew a guy that played 50.00 limit and they forced him to deal for a couple of hours. He lost money dealing, and lost his seat at the big game. Boy was he mad. I think I was a dealer in 3 casinos and never dealt a hand. When I moved to a new casino I packed my car and moved to a new city. Then I would put the word out to poker players that if they rented a machine, for 40 bucks cash I would clean their carpets. It always amazed me that a guy that wouldn't bat an eye at losing 5,000 was always trying to save 50 bucks cleaning their carpets. I also was a pretty good mechanic. Poker players and dealers are remarkably unmechanical. They were always asking me to go out to the parking lot and do something like change their headlight that they could have had a garage change for 10.00 and then they would flip me 20 bucks. I never liked casinos and at various times I have gone for years with never playing a hand. One of those times that I didn't work in a casino was the pool business. I could always make money. Not being able to make money and living on a fixed income makes me very, very uncomfortable. I think that I will have to grow the carpet cleaning business beyond what it is now. I guess I will have to learn how to use Facebook, even though I really won't like it. Anyway I hope it all works out for you. You are going to have big changes to your life ahead and so will your brother. If you deal with those changes well it will be better for both you and your brother. If I can make this all work, maybe I can get my brother into it and my son who is in a dead end job in Phoenix into it. I have been in Texas to play in some big games. Texans are terrible Texas Holdem players. They seem to think they are God's gift to poker because Texas Holdem is named after Texas. They are not. I did not see much of Texas while I was there. Every state looks the same at night from a car window and every hotel room looks the same no matter what state you are in. I also lived in Albuquerque for about six months. I think I lived in a motel downtown on 10th Ave. Some pueblo south of town opened a casino and I worked there for a short while. They fired the guy that hired me, he was pretty nice and I new him from Denver. The guy that he replaced him with was not nice and pretty bent. I think I lasted there about another month. It is a small world, you are always bumping into somebody that you knew from somewhere else. I opened a casino in Inglewood California, and they hired a dealer that I knew on a river boat in Missouri. The guy that hired me in Albuquerque I knew from Denver and I ran into him again a year later in San Diego. Now most of the guys I knew are dead from old age. Very sad.
We lived in Duke City for almost a year working day labor and living in a $1200/Month motel on Central in Knob Hill. If we had been able to get our hands on one of these NEAT's then we would have gotten rich...it's like getting the perfect card for the last hand, not this one. But we did the best we could with what we had at the time, which sounds like how you've done it too.
If you don't need too many jobs to get what you want for yourself that is great and if and when your brother or son come along and want to take part you can always mess with FB then and skip it for now. Word of mouth is better than dealing with people who price shop and hire the lowest bidder anyway because you only get a little money and nothing else with those customer.
My brother is now very choosy about who he will work for and what he will and won't do which I think is the "sweet spot" for any business. When you can be selective and not desperate for work you can enjoy and control your life and at our age that matters a lot.
We've all had to do jobs we didn't particularly want or enjoy to get by so being able to just pick and choose what we do is s much nicer.
When your brother and son get fed up with their current grind, then they will probably take you up on your offer and I bet they'll tell you they regret waiting so long to do it.
I'd keep doing jobs for other residents and the occasional referral from them and avoid going public and having to deal with competitors and low-ballers if you don't need the income because the hassles you can avoid this way are a huge drain on your energy and you may not need to bother with the headaches.
Taxes and the book-keeping associated with all of that are their own set of headaches and not much fun unless you like doing books and spreadsheets in which case you'll have a blast.
It just sounds like you have a small but pleasant little thing going and are at that point in life where enough ie enough and you don't need to kill yourself to get more and that is something to enjoy in and of itself. If gone are the days where you have to really struggle then I say enjoy moderation in work and leisure like retirement should be ideally. Me too!