CARPET REPAIR
Can You Really Learn
to Add Carpet Repair to Your Business?
by Steve Andrews
More importantly: Can you really make money from it and can you
make customers happy?
Of course, I would certainly say yes to both
questions since I not only perform this
service and have for many years, but I also
have helped many students to learn this
valuable service.
This is what I would like to write about,
the students that have taken the time to
learn the ‘Art of Carpet Repair”.
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There is so much more to repairing carpet
than just putting in a patch, it is where it
leads to from there. Many have used the
repair side of the business to open doors to
more cleaning work. Some simply love to
repair and make money with this:
One student took advantage of his repair
work and started to ask the very same
customers he had repaired carpet for, if
they would now like him to ‘Clean’ their
oriental area rugs for them and they said
‘YES’. The point of this, as a carpet cleaner,
there is very little to separate us from
other cleaners. This does not mean we are
not skilled technicians but the average