Like it or not, you are growing older every day. Someday you will be faced with retirement and, one way or another, you will want all your years of hard work and labor to help support you in retirement.

Absorbing a staining material is likely one of the oldest methods of spot-and-stain removal in the carpet and rug cleaning industry. When Junior spilled his fresh-squeezed juice onto the Pazaryk 3,000 years ago, his mother likely used another cloth to blot up the spill.

The heart-warming scent of fresh-cooked pepperoni pizza hung delightfully in the air. I was ready to sit down to a fat, delicious, gooey pie, happy to suffer heartburn joy the

Several years ago our carpet cleaning company tackled a warehouse office cleaning job that gave us fits. The entrance of this building consisted of about 1,500 square feet of orange – yes, orange – commercial loop carpet.

My telephone does what every telephone should: it lets me dial, connect and talk to whomever I wish. But that’s not all; being highly advanced technically, I have now learned to keep my calendar on my phone.

Nature has a very effective system of balancing the environment. Mold and fungus in the outdoors is natural and necessary in many settings. However, in the “built” environment – our homes and offices – it can lead to destruction of materials and harm human health.

In dealing with dilution ratios in last month’s column on injection sprayers, when I explained that you should mix 1 part pre-spray with 16 parts water, I thought I’d done a good job covering the topic in full. It became clear that a more detailed explanation was in order when I was later asked, “How much is a part?”

When you walk through the front entrance of your commercial carpet-cleaning account, it is often easy to locate the busiest areas: just follow the trail of tracked-in asphalt from the parking lot to the matted, heavily soil-impacted carpet.

Of all the available accessories for the professional carpet cleaner, and particularly the truckmount user, the injection sprayer is certainly one of the most popular. The injection sprayer, or in-line sprayer as it is sometimes referred to, is designed to be attached to the solution line from a truckmount or portable extraction unit.

Diversification, within reason, has always been a good idea. In today’s economic climate it is a necessity. Unless you are willing to live with less during this protracted recession, you need to find ways to bring in new business from existing customers and find new customers.