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46 products Hard Floor Care
Hard Floor Care
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Management, Supervion and Marketing
12 products Carpet,Upholstery and Drapery
Carpet,Upholstery and Drapery
22 products Inspections and Claims
Inspections and Claims
11 products Self Employment and Small Business Management
Self Employment and Small Business Management
13 products Household Cleaning and Maid Services
Household Cleaning and Maid Services
8 products Bidding and Estimating
Bidding and Estimating
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Other Books of Interest
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How to Sell & Price Contract Cleaning See details
How to Sell & Price Contract Cleaning
This 900 page reference manual is packed full of sound business advice to help you put together a winning proposal and a competitive bid for cleaning services. This book includes bid estimate sheets, time and production standards, supply usage charts, blank forms, job specifications, legal contracts, and markup tables for labor, products and supplies. This nuts and bolts guide is ideal for building owners, property managers and contract cleaners dealing with all types and sizes of properties.
900 pages
Binding: Paper
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Everything You Need to Know to Start a House Cleaning Service See details
Everything You Need to Know to Start a House Cleaning Service

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A house cleaning or maid service is an ideal full or part time business for students, single parents, the retired and others wanting a flexible schedule and an income of $15 to $35 per hour. Author Mary Johnson began her business, Dial-A-Mop, with a thirty-five dollar investment and built it into an operation generating over $170,000 a year and employing twelve people. Johnson shares the secrets of her success as she explains how to avoid unnecessary hassles and setbacks on the road to profit and professional service. Included are sample forms for recording financial and employee data, estimates, schedules and bids. Important tips are given on advertising, bidding, accounting, insurance, competitors, vacations, safety, products, supplies, equipment and employees.
232 pages
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No Time to Clean See details
No Time to Clean
We want the peace and comfort of a clean, neat home more than ever in these fast-paced days of 9 to 5 life. But the time for accomplishing the goal of a tidy house seems ever elusive. What is the answer? A new approach to cleaning.
This book presents many helpful solutions to cutting your cleaning time through prevention: hints on time management, reducing clutter, speed cleaning, getting help with the housework and finding the desire to clean are just a few of the useful tips the book bestows.
Includes pull-out stain removal guide, illustrations and index.
200 Pages
Binding: Paperback
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Do I Dust or Vacuum First? See details
Do I Dust or Vacuum First?
Take it from a guy with over twenty-five years experience in the house cleaning business, who really knows his dirt. Professional advice is given on cleaning such items as light fixtures, bathtubs, vents, screens, ovens, drapes, stairs and walls. A detailed step by step section covers such nitty-gritty problems as carpet stains and pet odor. Humorous illustrations and a lively writing style make this book fun to read and an excellent reference manual.
83 pages
Binding: Paper
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Guide for the Inspection of Textile Floor Coverings See details
Guide for the Inspection of Textile Floor Coverings
This book provides certified carpet inspectors with specific guidelines to follow when investigating common types of claims. These guidelines consist of questions that should be answered, sample requirements and suggested on-location tests. Contents cover recommended report formats, field worksheets, a glossary of terms and a description of carpet defects that include delamination, staining, soiling, yellowing, shedding, pilling, watermarking and pattern match.
Based on the experience and input of industry leaders including fiber producers, carpet mills, inspectors, installers, cleaners, and consumer advocates.
86 pages
Binding: Saddle Stitch.
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Is There Life After Housework? See details
Is There Life After Housework?
This informative and entertaining book gives valuable tips on house cleaning, compiled by Don Aslett during his twenty-five years of experience in the cleaning industry. He began a housecleaning service in college and has built his one man show into the multi-million dollar enterprise, Varsity Cleaners in Pocatello, Idaho. You can save up to 75% of the time you spend on house-work with his tried and true tips.
183 pages
Binding: Paper
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Residential Carpet Installation Standard CRI-105 See details
Residential Carpet Installation Standard CRI-105
The nationally accepted carpet installation standard for residential properties, this book details techniques, principles, and workmanship standards for the installation of carpeting in residential locations. Information includes such topics as tools, materials, floor preparation, installation in special areas, diagrams and charts. This book is of particular value to carpet installers, cleaners, retailers, inspectors, architects, interior designers, owners and property managers.
56 pages
Binding: Saddle Stitch
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Speed Cleaning for Homes and Apartments See details
Speed Cleaning for Homes and Apartments
This graphic and witty book provides a simple system with step by step procedures that will help you clean a house, room or apartment fast and effectively. The authors are San Francisco's preeminent house cleaning service and clean over 10,000 homes and apartments each year.
194 pages
Binding: Paper
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The "I Hate to Clean" Guide to Home Care See details
The "I Hate to Clean" Guide to Home Care
This informative book gives tips and suggestions for cleaning everything found in homes and apartments. A helpful reference manual for those involved with residential or institutional cleaning such as hospitals, hotels, resorts, dormitories and condominiums.
243 pages
Binding: Paper
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Too Busy to Clean? See details
Too Busy to Clean?
This book contains over 500 useful tips and techniques to help make housecleaning easier and more effective. Written with humor and understanding, Barrett shows harried housekeepers how to evaluate and maintain realistic standards with a minimum of time and effort. Along with a wealth of practical advice and procedural shortcuts, this book provides organizational strategies for establishing workable routines that will save time and energy.
122 pages
Binding: Paper
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How-to Start a Construction Cleanup Service See details
How-to Start a Construction Cleanup Service
In How-to Start a Construction Cleanup Service, you’ll find everything you need to plan, open, and get to work in the field of post-construction cleaning. In this comprehensive guidebook that’s the first of its kind released to the public, author, President, and CEO, Mitchell Hardin, Jr. shares all of the information, resources, and industry secrets he’s gleaned from decades of running his own lucrative business, Hi-Lite Enterprises, Inc. DBA Hi-Lite Janitorial.
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How to Clean Windows Like The Pros See details
How to Clean Windows Like The Pros
The first-book-of-its-kind book is filled with practical bidding advice and pieces of information that most window cleaners and janitorial companies may take for granted. Highlights of the book include the following: A list of questions one should ask when bidding, a breakdown of the different methods of bidding each type of window cleaning, and a look at the bidding philosophies that create profitable companies or send them into ruin
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