Tile and Grout Question

I had a tech who allowed his wife to start stripping. I warned him some guy would sweet talk her. Sure enough! She was a gorgeous blond with out a brain in her head. She dumped him. I saw her a few years later and she looked like she'd been drawn through a knot hole backwards.
He would sit and watch her take it all off every night and got a kick out of it. Then he wanted to start working no earlier than 10:00 in the morning. When I wouldn't put up with it he quit. She was making all kinds of bread. After she left him he came back wanting his old job back. I re-hired him. He didn't learn a thing. A few months later he was (courting) a beauty from Colombia. He took off two weeks to go visit her. They got engaged. He started sending her money. Enough to get the implants she always wanted. He quit and moved to the mainland. I ran into him again maybe six months or a year later. She moved to the US and they got married. That lasted just long enough so she could stay and she left his dumb ass. Go figure.

Im going to save my thread....I havent done the job yet ...he is kind of a friend and I have freedom to move it around.....I did however stop by and test.

When I look under the fridge the newer undisturbed tile is in fact tan......I tested with a scrub brush four products with no luck on getting it back to a tan....I used 2790, procyon, simple green, and amonia straight. All of them had a dwell time of 7 minutes, then I scrubbed with a brush...they all gave up soil but not one showed tan. I suspect it will need the extra help of the spinner. I did get my Cobra in and could use that to test spot again....but im puzzled for now.

Rainbow Rider wrote:I had a tech who allowed his wife to start stripping. I warned him some guy would sweet talk her. Sure enough! She was a gorgeous blond with out a brain in her head. She dumped him. I saw her a few years later and she looked like she'd been drawn through a knot hole backwards.
    He would sit and watch her take it all off every night and got a kick out of it. Then he wanted to start working no earlier than 10:00 in the morning. When I wouldn't put up with it he quit. She was making all kinds of bread. After she left him he came back wanting his old job back. I re-hired him. He didn't learn a thing. A few months later he was (courting) a beauty from Colombia. He took off two weeks to go visit her. They got engaged. He started sending her money. Enough to get the implants she always wanted. He quit and moved to the mainland. I ran into him again maybe six months or a year later. She moved to the US and they got married. That lasted just long enough so she could stay and she left his dumb ass. Go figure.

Sounds like he had some fum while it lasted. Luckily he has an employer that will help fiance his dating or stupidity

I feel bad for the carpet cleaners that searches the forum for a good floor stripper. Leave it to the single confus ethe two

Devon07 wrote:Im going to save my thread....I havent done the job yet ...he is kind of a friend and I have freedom to move it around.....I did however stop by and test.

When I look under the fridge the newer undisturbed tile is in fact tan......I tested with a scrub brush four products with no luck on getting it back to a tan....I used 2790, procyon, simple green, and amonia straight. All of them had a dwell time of 7 minutes, then I scrubbed with a brush...they all gave up soil but not one showed tan. I suspect it will need the extra help of the spinner. I did get my Cobra in and could use that to test spot again....but im puzzled for now.

Nice save Devon. For me personally If can't get it clean with the spinner demo I would be done. Other guys may use a brass or stainless steel brush, stronger acid or color seal.

Metal brushes are a bad idea...........but I do love a nice looking Stripper.

Metal brushes will leave black marks most of the time, that can almost be impossible to then remove if you don't know how.

Take a TnG cleaning class, Bouys.......if you want to be come a true professional, and know how to do what your competition doesn't. Figure you're the easily beatable target now, as long as you don't know. ..  

Why not become that guy in your area "that does know", how to solve those problems?

When you can solve a customers problem, that no others can't, it makes it much easier to get that 2-3 times the going rate $amount$.

Just ask yourself, "am I in this business to make money and help solve peoples cleaning problems, or just go along like a robot doing the same thing everyone else does"?

OK, done, wasting my time n energy again, I think?

[quote="Davey Cracker"]Metal brushes are a bad idea...........but I do love a nice looking Stripper.

Metal brushes will leave black marks most of the time, that can almost be impossible to then remove if you don't know how.

Take a TnG cleaning class, Bouys.......if you want to be come a true professional, and know how to do what your competition doesn't. Figure you're the easily beatable target now, as long as you don't know. ..  

Why not become that guy in your area "that does know", how to solve those problems?

When you can solve a customers problem, that no others can't, it makes it much easier to get that 2-3 times the going rate $amount$.

Just ask yourself, "am I in this business to make money and help solve peoples cleaning problems, or just go along like a robot doing the same thing everyone else does"?  

OK, done, wasting my time n energy again, I think?[/quote

Do you mean a...gulp...iicrc course perhaps?

Im all about a coarse but my goodness for all the stuff I need to learn it would take the whole year. I did a t/g job today and I was happy and the custy was happier....at first I thought the tile wasnt going to look that great but then the moisture started to dry and POW...looked great.

That was one of the first things I had to learn, it isn't over until its dry.

I tended to over-work a flooring because I didn't like the way it was looking when wet. Eventually, I came to understand that things will be different when it dries which is also why I try to have everything dry before I leave.

Next time Im taking a fan!

Airpaths are your friend.....your big, heavy, pita friend.

Love mine.

Metal maybe not brass. I refuse to use acid to clean grout.  I want to be able to breath when I'm older the other guys can have it

I've used a blow dryer on demos

milspec6 wrote:

Davey Cracker wrote:Metal brushes are a bad idea...........but I do love a nice looking Stripper.

Metal brushes will leave black marks most of the time, that can almost be impossible to then remove if you don't know how.

Take a TnG cleaning class, Bouys.......if you want to be come a true professional, and know how to do what your competition doesn't. Figure you're the easily beatable target now, as long as you don't know. ..  

Why not become that guy in your area "that does know", how to solve those problems?

When you can solve a customers problem, that no others can't, it makes it much easier to get that 2-3 times the going rate $amount$.

Just ask yourself, "am I in this business to make money and help solve peoples cleaning problems, or just go along like a robot doing the same thing everyone else does"?  

OK, done, wasting my time n energy again, I think?

Do you mean a...gulp...iicrc course perhaps?

Nope, he ain't IICRC's boys
Pretty soon I won't be one either if I don't get any more customers or a request to sign their carpet warranty card.

I was a faithful IICRC member for many years. Each year I paid a fee for Certified Company. Another one for Certified technician and maybe a couple more. Finally after years of seeing little to no value I dropped out. The only feedback I ever got was from a local flooring store who said I needed IICRC certification to get their referral customers. With my reputation they refer customers anyway. Not knocking the IICRC. Just saying.

Follow up. I quite paying about eight years ago and I'm still here.