from the Penthouses, to the...

So my day started with 2400 of not dirty carpet. I didn't expect that much carpet when I scheduled. My waste tank shut off with a stairway and 5x12' hall left to do. No easy sewer access and no pump out. So I had to manually haul 5gl at a time down to the back of the house, where the sewer tube was. Ugh. They were moving in, so empty rooms! About a 2M home. The basement is as big as my house.
Then my next was 'the outhouse' rental. Need I say more? I presprayed liberally with the secret sauce, then pulled in the rest of the hoses(to give it dwell time). Cranked up the pressure to about 550-575psi. Just blasted away, zig zagging back and forth. Then a dry pass. 85% better. Except for some red dye... But they won't pay for that.

Get yourself a coleman utlillity pump, bucket, and garden hose....never have that problem ever again.

Those coleman pumps are amazingly tough and costs less than a $100.  I left mine in a bucket of water last winter by accident.  It spent months frozen in a block of ice and yet it still works great today.

https://www.menards.com/main/plumbing/pumps-well-tanks/pumps/33-msp-1-3-hp-submersible-multi-purpose-pump/p-1444430685721-c-8673.htm?tid=-6465389321558379906

Carpet cleaners just get it done no matter what it takes

Wow dude you had your hands full today. Do the water hose trick and don't waste your energy on that again. I bet the paycheck from that job was nice though. What's the biggest jobs you guys have had? How much did you charge them?

Matt, check los angeles craigslist, there is a used prochem pump out there asking price $ 350, I can help get it and ship it to you but because the pump is already out, I don't know how to test it ? I can plug it in to my machine just to be sure it will turn on but beyond that I think it's going to take hours to fully test it.
Brownie boy, the biggest one for me was a mansion in Los Gatos, CA when I still worked for someone, in a private complex with a man made lake, $ 2600, this was back in 2003 - 2004, I made a whopping $ 520 off of that job and we were done in 3 hours, lol.

I have a pump out. But the previous owner of the unit got some DIYS wired messed up. Just havnt had it checked out and fixed the wiring. It Dosn't work. I have a simple back; except its not set up. You'd figure that having it more than a year, I'd get it set up?, NOT.

I had an APO on my Butler for 3 years that didn't work. I didn't get around to repairing it either until I ripped it out and put it on my TNT last year.

I know the feeling.