I own a successful commercial carpet cleaning company in the Twin Cities Area of Minnesota. After scheduling a 100,000+ square foot carpet cleaning job for a large defense contractor in Plymouth, which will remain nameless, I thought to myself how glad I am that I can send in my employees’ background checks without worry. This [...]
Carpet cleaning is important to rental properties for multiple reasons: Carpet costs money to replace and cuts down on profit It is easier to find renters for a home with clean carpets Odor is a huge deterrent to potential renters There is a lot of competition among property managers to lure in potential renters as [...]
How important are employees to a growing business? I can’t speak for the rest of the world, but here in the Twin Cities Area of Minnesota, employees are the “truth in service”. What do I mean by that? If a business owner is greedy, he won’t pay enough to get the best employees. If a [...]
It seems impossible to get just about any service these days without being on a contract. Contracts would be fine, but the way they are written these days state that you have no choice but to keep using a service even if the service provided doesn’t live up to the promises made by the salesperson [...]
My name is Ryan Zakariasen and my family owns a carpet cleaning company in the Twin Cities Area of Minnesota named the Commercial Steam Team. When we started the company out of my garage in Lakeville, the economy was booming. Shortly after the birth of our company, the economy went from boom to crash. This [...]
Sand is to carpet what saws are to trees. I own a carpet cleaning company in the Minneapolis – St. Paul Area and Minnesotans track a lot of sand onto our carpet. Carpet fibers are very thin strands; thinner than the hair on you head. The fibers are woven and spun together for strength in [...]
Did you know that every inch of Commercial and Residential Laid Carpet has Carpet Protector applied to it at the factory during the manufacturing process? This is because the companies who make the carpets understand that their carpet will not live up to the warranties without this protector coating the carpet fibers. Carpet manufacturers don’t [...]
I hear all the time: “I can’t believe how good it smells in here now.” I hear this when I call my clients to make sure they were totally happy with the carpet cleaning job we did for them. Do I have a secret to achieving this? Yes, I do! Every time we fill our [...]
I own a carpet cleaning company in the Twin Cities Area of Minnesota called the Commercial Steam Team. I have been cleaning carpet for 13 years and one of the most effective products I use is Hydramaster’s Multiphase Deodorizer. As in its name, Multiphase is a triple action deodorizer that covers a broad spectrum of [...]
