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CBL EP #142 Mop it Like it's Hot: The Ultimate Cleaning Kit Breakdown · Cleaning Business Life

• 2:16
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• 2:56
  SPEAKER_01: Welcome back, everyone.
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  SPEAKER_01: Today, Jamie and I are going to talk about what's in your cleaning kit.
• 3:04
  SPEAKER_01: There are a lot of people and a lot of preferences.
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  SPEAKER_01: Sometimes I see some of you guys, it's like you're moving in and you're traveling with luggage on a cruise ship.
• 3:14
  SPEAKER_01: You got the roller and all the gear and you're carrying all this chemical around.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it don't have to be like that.
• 3:22
  SPEAKER_01: It's a matter of preference in what you need and what you don't need.
• 3:25
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm not knocking either way.
• 3:27
  SPEAKER_01: I'm just observation.
• 3:28
  SPEAKER_01: The only time I'll say something to you is if you're using paper towels and it's not icky.
• 3:33
  SPEAKER_01: I'll say, Hey, are you using paper towels all the time?
• 3:35
  SPEAKER_01: I ask all the time.
• 3:36
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, so are you using paper towels all the time?
• 3:38
  SPEAKER_01: They're like, it's Shannon.
• 3:40
  SPEAKER_01: She's gonna say something.
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  SPEAKER_00: I I um I we don't.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_00: Uh it's another cost.
• 3:48
  SPEAKER_00: I am, I'm gonna tell you though, I've gotten to where here I go, talking about Jobber again.
• 3:56
  SPEAKER_00: They have a place in there for your expenses, and I'm getting to the point of where I'm having to gauge.
• 4:08
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, we're down to this is hypothetically, we're down scrub mommies.
• 4:16
  SPEAKER_00: I want so many scrub mommies in the office at a time before we have to order again.
• 4:24
  SPEAKER_00: Do you see what I'm saying?
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  SPEAKER_00: Or oh, if my pure evergreen gets down below too small, I I need to reorder.
• 4:33
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I like to always stay stocked up that, but right now I'm going through a transition because I'm making sure that I have enough product for my second location that I'm gonna be announced here soon.
• 4:48
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I'm we're we're building up to that point, and I'm it's happening, it's just so many roadblocks, and and we'll talk about that at another podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: But where I have to gauge what we run out of quicker than some other things.
• 5:10
  SPEAKER_01: I'm really sorry.
• 5:11
  SPEAKER_01: Just we can either stop and restart.
• 5:13
  SPEAKER_01: I have a dog, my 17-year-old dog is yelping, so um, yeah, well, go ahead, pause.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 5:24
  SPEAKER_00: Good times, right?
• 5:26
  SPEAKER_01: Good, yes, good time.
• 5:27
  SPEAKER_01: Life can be messy for sure.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we were talking a little bit about what's in a kit, what's in your kit, what's in my kit, and there there is a lot of preferences over what what we should bring, what we should not bring.
• 5:40
  SPEAKER_01: During COVID, nobody could get anything, so we had to learn how to make things where we never had to do that before.
• 5:46
  SPEAKER_01: People were hoarding toilet paper and what other weird Lysol, bleach, hand sanitizer was hand sanitizer was the big thing.
• 5:55
  SPEAKER_01: There was even the two kids who got in trouble for having a monopoly on hand sanitizer.
• 5:59
  SPEAKER_00: I watched that show on Amazon.
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  SPEAKER_01: No, I don't even remember.
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  SPEAKER_01: But what we're gonna talk a little bit about what you really should have in your kit versus not having your kit, and I believe that you should have the least amount of product to do the maximum amount of work because your cleaning tech is loading if it's not already in their car and they don't keep it in their car all the time because of the weather or whatever, they're loading it in the car and then they're unloading it at the client's house.
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  SPEAKER_01: And if they're doing two houses a day, so they're unloading it on the second house and then loading it back in, and then they're unloading it at their house.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it's six times they're moving gear, and it can be a little cumbersome, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: So it could be 50 pounds, it could be 60 pounds, it could be multiple trips, especially if you're tired.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's you like the last thing to do is load in all your stuff into the back of the car, like ugh.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, what kind of things are you carrying in your kit?
• 6:51
  SPEAKER_00: So I just so happened to have my kit with me because I can't wait.
• 6:57
  SPEAKER_00: I know.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was like, let me bring my kit.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I ran out to the car, and it was it's a mess.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, but I wanted to show uh yeah, I had a post to help out on a post-construction clean.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I'm going to get up and kind of show you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Can you see back there?
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  SPEAKER_01: I see some stuff, some good stuff in the back.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let's see.
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  SPEAKER_01: For those of you who are not who are listening and not watching, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Explain what I'm doing because for the people Jamie is in a long products cleaning product t-shirt.
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  SPEAKER_01: It says mock it like it's hot.
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  SPEAKER_01: I love it.
• 7:39
  SPEAKER_01: She's got her her work shorts on and she's grabbing because you know what?
• 7:44
  SPEAKER_00: I might get ready to clean my own house now that I got this out.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right.
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  SPEAKER_00: The moment can move you.
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  SPEAKER_00: What I'm saying about making your own product, but whenever you have employees there, you want to make it as simple, as simple as possible.
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  SPEAKER_00: I wish I could take you guys to the office.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you guys, everybody knows that I have this big, huge storage locker that is set up like as if I had a storefront, but you want to make it as simple as possible.
• 8:16
  SPEAKER_01: Sal suds that we we, you know, one gallon of sal suds will last you a while.
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  SPEAKER_01: Forever and how long, how how many you have on your crew for sure?
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  SPEAKER_00: I yeah, that's and at any one time I have between six to ten.
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  SPEAKER_00: Speaking of which, I just got so we always carry these, these are great for your standard dusters, and it goes just like as if you were doing you had a what is those?
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  SPEAKER_00: A high duster, yeah, a web duster.
• 8:52
  SPEAKER_00: I do not use these bottles, but this is a product that we use.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't use it in my business, however, this is a product that we here.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll show you what we put it in.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's pure evergreen for those of you who are yeah, yeah.
• 9:32
  SPEAKER_00: We use pure evergreen for our standard cleans.
• 9:35
  SPEAKER_00: It comes in a 32 hour, or I'm sorry.
• 9:40
  SPEAKER_01: I think it is 32.
• 9:42
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you're right, but it's a concentrate.
• 9:44
  SPEAKER_00: My girls, my cleaning crew.
• 9:47
  SPEAKER_00: I can't say girls anymore because I got guys working too now.
• 9:51
  SPEAKER_00: They know cleaning text.
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  SPEAKER_00: They know how to easily make this if they need to re-up on their cleaning products because usually they keep their kits in something similar to this or hut.
• 10:08
  SPEAKER_00: I see a lot of people using Hutski bags, but this is what we actually I we prefer the Eco Labs.
• 10:16
  SPEAKER_01: Well, that's a 32-ounce bottle, right?
• 10:19
  SPEAKER_01: And pure evergreen, from what I remember, you have to use distilled water.
• 10:23
  SPEAKER_00: You're you're supposed to use distilled water, however, whenever I you know we use bottled water.
• 10:32
  SPEAKER_00: I was doing distilled water, and then I just because I gotta go there and fill up all the water jugs.
• 10:40
  SPEAKER_00: So I do fill it up.
• 10:42
  SPEAKER_00: My either my house and then take all the jugs back so that they have they have a a flip where they can fill up their bottles.
• 10:51
  SPEAKER_01: So it's a five-gallon dispenser, five-gallon containers, five-gallon plastic containers that have the the egg enter the entrance hole and the exit hole for ventilation so that it moves.
• 11:03
  SPEAKER_01: It's amazing how gravity always works, whether you want it to or not.
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  SPEAKER_01: You can get those right on Amazon.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um great for uh distributing, especially when you have a crew.
• 11:11
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's they're all there, and they're not very much money.
• 11:14
  SPEAKER_01: I think they're like 15 bucks.
• 11:16
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's been a while.
• 11:17
  SPEAKER_00: I paid about that.
• 11:18
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I paid about on Amazon, something like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yep.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 11:23
  SPEAKER_00: And then I made sure to get the one with the yeah, the so that's opening flipper because I don't have, yeah, it's like a water spigot, right?
• 11:33
  SPEAKER_01: So uh we uh carry both bars keeper friend powder for more abrasive barskeeper liquid or so you're carrying in both bottles, like we only bring one bottle post-construction clean.
• 11:48
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you need both.
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  SPEAKER_00: Post-construction clean.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now these are steel wool, it's number zero zero zero zero.
• 12:00
  SPEAKER_00: That is in all of their bags.
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  SPEAKER_00: They usually keep them.
• 12:04
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not out in the field as much, so forgive me.
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  SPEAKER_00: My my I mean, these some of this is not normal every day.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean they have one bottle, depending on the clean, they always have the the liquid.
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  SPEAKER_01: So the kit that you have right there is for post-construction cleaning.
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  SPEAKER_00: More more post-construction.
• 12:28
  SPEAKER_00: Here's more stuff from Long's products.
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  SPEAKER_01: Housekeeper number one.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, this works great for that hard water bow.
• 12:36
  SPEAKER_01: Anyways, they all have toilet, but it has a whole toilet container, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like it has to be able to fit nicely into your cleaning kit.
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  SPEAKER_01: They have scrub mama and a scrub daddy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Scrub mommy is for bathrooms.
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  SPEAKER_00: Scrub daddies are for kitchens.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we put them in normally we put them in baggies that one will be in the baggie for kitchen for cross-contamination.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's oh we got also magic erasers.
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  SPEAKER_00: Magic erasers, they carry a pum pumus stone.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh-huh.
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  SPEAKER_00: Puma stone.
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  SPEAKER_00: I try all this in bulk.
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  SPEAKER_00: These go it depends.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes you get stuff that's in the in the crevices that you can't get.
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  SPEAKER_00: So they all have their toothbrush and it has both ends.
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  SPEAKER_00: One end is smaller than the other.
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  SPEAKER_01: So you have a two-in-one toothbrush.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Or like a toothbrush, not really a toothbrush.
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  SPEAKER_00: And again, I was doing a post-construction clean.
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  SPEAKER_00: These are great for windows and wrapping your rag around there.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's oh, and gloves.
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  SPEAKER_00: You gotta have the gloves.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then your duster, your feather duster.
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  SPEAKER_00: I do carry, I I carry both this time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Feather duster.
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  SPEAKER_00: The biggest tool in your kit.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I tell this to my cleaning tech.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's your apron.
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  SPEAKER_01: Right.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's your apron and your rags and how you set it up.
• 14:47
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
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  SPEAKER_01: We want to talk about aprons on another day and just break down step by step.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I do have they are trained because everybody does feather dust or not feather dusting, slipper dusting, which is great.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's great technology.
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  SPEAKER_00: But whenever you have a client that is has so many little trinkets everywhere, you've got to learn how to use the feather duster.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it the feather duster makes you go fast.
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  SPEAKER_00: It does.
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  SPEAKER_00: It speeds up the time on dusting when it's done right.
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  SPEAKER_01: If if dusting is done on a clean surface, a regular maintenance service.
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  SPEAKER_01: If it does, if you try to dust something that's on a dirty surface, you actually have to clean the surface first with the wet microfiber.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then the next time you come, you should be able to feather dust.
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  SPEAKER_01: Feather dusters are only going to be able to capture so much dust.
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_00: But that that is about all I take for it.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_00: That's a big post-construction.
• 15:59
  SPEAKER_00: I of course, you know, I have the step stool that we bring.
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_01: Vacuum would be your most important tool.
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, vacuum.
• 16:09
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's a and let me scrubby between every client's home.
• 16:15
  SPEAKER_00: We are changing out the filter every time.
• 16:19
  SPEAKER_00: I just every single time the filter gets not at the end of the day, not I I we are a high quality professional cleaning company, and I use top-of-the-line products, obviously.
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  SPEAKER_00: And what's that house?
• 16:35
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I use very top.
• 16:37
  SPEAKER_00: If I want the to attract those high-end clients, I want to make sure that my cleaning techs are nicely dressed, representing my company, and not going uh making it easier on them.
• 16:53
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, Kayla, poor Kayla is pregnant.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_00: She will not let me take her off of the so I don't want to hear any backlash because I've tried to tell her, hey, I'm gonna start taking you down off the the schedule just a little bit, you know.
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, don't you do that, don't you do that?
• 17:13
  SPEAKER_00: So she'll let me know when she's ready.
• 17:15
  SPEAKER_00: Obviously, she knows what her body can take, but I really want to make sure that they're not breaking their backs, right?
• 17:25
  SPEAKER_00: Trying to okay because you got it, your body does it, it needs to, and I tell everybody when they start, we gotta get your running legs going because this is you're gonna work, right?
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_01: I would like to go over what's in a regular maintenance cleaning kit.
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_01: Now, this is just the wet part of the kit, and we can talk about the dry part of the kit.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we typically either carry a bucket or a wet, a plastic caddy that has two sides.
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  SPEAKER_01: I they used to have the smaller ones, which I loved, and they no longer make them for some whatever reason because they were made in China.
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  SPEAKER_01: So a wet kit for us had two large cups.
• 18:05
  SPEAKER_01: I always recommend that you go through the drive-thru at Jack in the Box or Jack in the Crack, is what my one of my cousins always calls it.
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_01: And then that way you have a Rinsey cup and then a toilet brush cup.
• 18:17
  SPEAKER_01: We didn't do anything fancy with the toilet brush, like what Jamie showed us in the husky bag.
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  SPEAKER_01: We also carried a plastic putty knife.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_01: We carried a puma stone, a magic eraser, a long finger brush.
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  SPEAKER_01: I like the gong brushes, they cover more space and they last a lot longer and they they repel germs.
• 18:37
  SPEAKER_01: So if you let them air dry, they actually sanitize themselves.
• 18:41
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, and that's a big thing too.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, sanitizing.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_00: We we we have we've tried multiple different kinds, and this always seemed I don't even know what is that what you're using for the bathrooms or the toilet.
• 18:55
  SPEAKER_00: No, this is I have the own.
• 18:57
  SPEAKER_01: We have not for the strictly use the ones that you showed.
• 19:00
  SPEAKER_01: So she basically showed, for those of you who are not watching, a black canistered toilet brush that had a lip on it.
• 19:07
  SPEAKER_01: So the brush that she just showed us is also a long finger brush, not a gong brush.
• 19:11
  SPEAKER_01: Nope.
• 19:11
  SPEAKER_01: Um, you can get a gong brush right on Amazon Depot.
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_00: Different kinds now, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: Then we usually carry color-coded toothbrushes, one for the kitchen, one for the bathroom.
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  SPEAKER_01: So usually red is bathroom, and you know that the that's got the cooties all over it, so you don't want to use that in the kitchen.
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_01: We also carry a multi-surface, we use sal suds and a water mix.
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_01: We also use these are just for light cleanings.
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_01: We use rubbing alcohol and white vinegar mix.
• 19:42
  SPEAKER_01: Hang on.
• 19:42
  SPEAKER_01: I I have a problem.
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_01: Yep.
• 19:45
  SPEAKER_00: Question Do you make up your product for your cleaning text?
• 19:51
  SPEAKER_00: Or did you?
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_01: I did back in the day.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_01: We actually had someone who came in and did laundry and they'd wash all the kits once a week and you know, make sure that they were all ready to go before Monday.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_01: Because I have 1099s, I uh they are responsible for bringing their own kit.
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_01: I give a suggested client preferred list.
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but I'm just telling you what we carry now, and it's entirely up to them.
• 20:12
  SPEAKER_01: I have one girl who totally loves the fabuloso smell.
• 20:19
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 20:20
  SPEAKER_01: And she just love, love, loves it.
• 20:21
  SPEAKER_01: And I have a couple clients that love, love, love it, but it's it's whatever your preference is, it's totally fine.
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_01: Those are some of the tools that are inside of the wet kit.
• 20:30
  SPEAKER_01: So the two cups, the puma stone, the plastic putty knife, the long finger brush, and then the chemicals are we keep it really so we don't use furniture polish.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_01: I haven't used that in probably a decade.
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_01: We don't use stainless steel polish.
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_01: We just use the the three bottles.
• 20:46
  SPEAKER_01: We have a multi-surface bottle, which is a little bit of salsa and water, and it shook up.
• 20:51
  SPEAKER_01: And then we use the vinegar, white has to be white vinegar and rubbing alcohol, and it's 50-50.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_01: And then we use Dawn dish soap, and then we carry hot cloths, microfibers, and old white towels.
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_01: So we go to yard sales.
• 21:06
  SPEAKER_01: We used to go to yard sales, I don't do this anymore, and we would take old white towels, people would sell them for 50 cents or a buck, and we cut them from top to bottom and then into three sections.
• 21:15
  SPEAKER_01: So you would get two six six rags out of it.
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_01: And I had a seamstress who would actually do the edges for me, and they last forever.
• 21:23
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, for the longest time I didn't know that I was like, hug towels really well.
• 21:31
  SPEAKER_00: You just got some.
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_01: I got some from them and I love them.
• 21:35
  SPEAKER_01: I think they're great.
• 21:35
  SPEAKER_01: They didn't even need to be washed.
• 21:37
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so I was like, these are nice, and I'm like, it so flows with my my company, the colors and what it represents too.
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_01: But and then for a high duster, we actually use the the window extension, like what you had mentioned earlier, and then we have a bulb.
• 21:56
  SPEAKER_01: We don't use any Swiffer at all.
• 21:57
  SPEAKER_01: We use a feather duster, we use a microfiber flat mop, mop heads, and that's about it.
• 22:03
  SPEAKER_01: And and once in a while we'll carry a razor blade knife.
• 22:05
  SPEAKER_01: If we're doing like a move-out cleaning, the chemicals are slightly different, like Jamie had mentioned.
• 22:10
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, and we do carry barkeeper spine.
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_01: We just we typically only carry the powdered form unless we really need the liquid.
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, yeah, it's a very but you get so that's one, two, three.
• 22:21
  SPEAKER_01: That's five things.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_01: That's it.
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, let's talk about mopping systems and the differences.
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_00: So this is part of the cleaning kit, so I'm not off of topic.
• 22:33
  SPEAKER_00: I was telling you guys, I was telling you guys, I don't know how far back I was telling you guys about that.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_00: We're a flat mop system normally.
• 22:45
  SPEAKER_00: Normally we flat mop.
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_00: And I normally use microfiber wholesale.
• 22:54
  SPEAKER_00: I cannot remember how I came across this.
• 22:57
  SPEAKER_01: I don't, I'm trying to think as well.
• 22:59
  SPEAKER_01: It's uh it snaps on and off.
• 23:01
  SPEAKER_01: I remember trying it out, and then I haven't, you know, I haven't mentioned it since.
• 23:06
  SPEAKER_00: My employees absolutely love this because they bring everything back that you missed with the vacuum.
• 23:12
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 23:12
  SPEAKER_00: They bring it back and then they take this and then they wipe it in crumbs and then spit it out on their way out.
• 23:20
  SPEAKER_00: So I love we love the flat mop, these flat mops.
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_01: So the flat mop she's showing you has two levers on the side, which actually has the mop head wrap around on it.
• 23:30
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and it holds it in place.
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and then we just use the regular microfiber wholesale with the velcro on the bottom.
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_00: Usually what we use that's uh, but I wanted to introduce that, and that's by Mr.
• 23:44
  SPEAKER_00: Sig.
• 23:47
  SPEAKER_00: This I don't know if you Is that a toe bar spin mop?
• 23:53
  SPEAKER_00: Tobar spin mop.
• 23:54
  SPEAKER_00: Let me tell you, I have all you can tell, obviously, I have different colors and different, I I because we need them sometimes, and I'm sorry, but the O-Cedar just does not work for me.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_01: They're it's not a commercial grade mop.
• 24:12
  SPEAKER_00: No, and these look how tall.
• 24:14
  SPEAKER_00: I am five three uh with my shoes on, and this is I I love this thing, so it comes also with all the what are these called Chanel?
• 24:30
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I'm trying to remember.
• 24:32
  SPEAKER_01: They're like little microfiber fingers.
• 24:38
  SPEAKER_00: And then put and this I because I had a post-construction clean yesterday, and they're great for baseboards.
• 24:47
  SPEAKER_00: Their bucket, they have different types of uh mop heads here, is kind of like what O Cedar has, but it's so much bigger.
• 25:02
  SPEAKER_00: And if you guys are listening over at Tovar, I would love to talk to you.
• 25:09
  SPEAKER_00: We would love to talk to you.
• 25:11
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, this is uh a game, this has been a game changer for our industry.
• 25:19
  SPEAKER_01: I see a lot of people use those.
• 25:22
  SPEAKER_00: It works great, it gets it, it just does more stuff than what those spin right mops.
• 25:29
  SPEAKER_00: Now they are a little more pricier, but it's scalable, and what I mean whenever I say scalable, obviously I have three, I think they were$80 a piece, but look at all the heads and everything that I get.
• 25:45
  SPEAKER_01: And there And the reason why you want it either a tovar or a microfiber is because the poles are adjustable.
• 25:52
  SPEAKER_01: If you get I my neighbor, when I went for my walk this morning, was out there.
• 25:55
  SPEAKER_01: He has, I call it the island house because it actually is not supposed to be there.
• 25:59
  SPEAKER_01: They built a house in the wash, made an island.
• 26:01
  SPEAKER_01: So he's out there every couple mornings chopping away the weeds that are growing in his rocks.
• 26:06
  SPEAKER_01: He's retired, but he had a tool that the handle was too short, so he's hunched over trying to get this.
• 26:11
  SPEAKER_01: I go, You need a longer handle.
• 26:13
  SPEAKER_01: And he's like, Oh, yeah.
• 26:14
  SPEAKER_01: So that the mop needs to be longer so that you can center the gravity of your core muscles because you will eventually pull your muscle out, and then you'll be hobbling around going, Why do I have to mop this?
• 26:25
  SPEAKER_01: This sucks.
• 26:26
  SPEAKER_01: So having an extendable mop handle is important for a professional cleaner to be able to do an efficient job quickly and efficiently.
• 26:37
  SPEAKER_00: And it'll tell you.
• 26:39
  SPEAKER_00: It'll tell you.
• 26:41
  SPEAKER_00: Let me think.
• 26:42
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, this has to be, and this is what I train my cleaning types for our flat maps.
• 26:50
  SPEAKER_00: You take it and you put it under your chin, and that's where it's supposed to be.
• 26:55
  SPEAKER_00: That's it it should be right there.
• 26:59
  SPEAKER_00: I've I've come in and walked in, and they have it all the way, and I'm like, Wait, they're gonna have the max and throw it out.
• 27:06
  SPEAKER_00: They'll have it like this, and I'm like, you you're doing more work, they'll have it so short.
• 27:11
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, you're doing more work, and you're straining your your core muscles, and you're gonna pay for that later.
• 27:20
  SPEAKER_00: So make sure that whenever you're using your mops, that it goes right above your right under or right above your chin is where it's supposed to be.
• 27:30
  SPEAKER_00: But this Tovar Spin Right, Spin Tech, whatever I can't remember what I don't remember the official name.
• 27:39
  SPEAKER_00: We'll put it down in the the show notes.
• 27:42
  SPEAKER_00: I would like to reach out and talk to you guys about this great product because I see a lot of the cleaning influencers, they won't go a day without it.
• 27:54
  SPEAKER_00: And I love that about them, and they support it's another small business, and that's me.
• 27:59
  SPEAKER_00: I love supporting small businesses.
• 28:02
  SPEAKER_00: You don't see me usually.
• 28:04
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I got barskeeper's friend, we got salsides, but I like our small businesses and supporting small because they, you know, they genuinely care.
• 28:20
  SPEAKER_01: Uh small businesses make the world go round, but so there's there's a lot of and and you can decide too in your cleaning kit if you're gonna be a regular chemical or an eco-friendly or in you know, safe for you, safe for the animals type of thing.
• 28:34
  SPEAKER_01: You can decide what chemicals work best for you.
• 28:36
  SPEAKER_01: We've given you many suggestions on, you know, there's I off the top, there's pure evergreen, five in one longs products.
• 28:45
  SPEAKER_01: Any of those products are great.
• 28:47
  SPEAKER_01: They even what is the name of speed cleaning for the pros also has an environment, Amy Sardone.
• 28:56
  SPEAKER_01: There we go.
• 28:56
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
• 28:57
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so she runs the company now, so those are also great products, it just depends on preference and everything else.
• 29:03
  SPEAKER_01: And then you know, having the professional great caddies, if either you're doing a husky bag or not a husky bag, or you're doing professional when you're walking up, it just that's another marketing thing.
• 29:15
  SPEAKER_00: I I actually had a five-star review way in the very, very beginning.
• 29:19
  SPEAKER_00: If you guys go and search my above all cleaning services, way in the beginning, I had somebody just go on and on about how we showed up looking for very professional.
• 29:32
  SPEAKER_00: We, you know, it's such a brand that's on brand, you know.
• 29:38
  SPEAKER_00: My car is looking decent and clean, and then you pull out these nice cleaning caddies.
• 29:46
  SPEAKER_00: I've seen one that had their brand, their logo sewn into their bag, and I just love that idea, right?
• 29:58
  SPEAKER_01: You can have it embroidered, it maybe you can do a trade.
• 30:00
  SPEAKER_01: There's a lot of things you can do to help brand and make your logo stand out.
• 30:05
  SPEAKER_01: But those are basic cleaning products that we use, and then there's, you know, we could talk about an oven cleaning kit, those are pre-bagged in large Ziploc baggies, and it's one of oven cleaner, SOS pads, puba stone, um, anything that you would think that you would need for cleaning an oven.
• 30:24
  SPEAKER_01: And then we take all of their old microfiber cloths or old rags, and we give them a second larger bag.
• 30:30
  SPEAKER_01: And those are the oven cleaning rags so that they're not ruining your brand new microfiber cloth that you just got from microfiber wholesale.
• 30:39
  SPEAKER_01: Sorry, I use an oven on this.
• 30:41
  SPEAKER_01: You're like, ah, right.
• 30:42
  SPEAKER_01: So you got to think ahead.
• 30:44
  SPEAKER_01: And then, you know, usually it'll say needs oven cleaning kit, so they know that they need to pop by the office to pick up the oven cleaning kit when they pick up their check from you.
• 30:53
  SPEAKER_01: If you're still doing the old-fashioned way or direct deposit, or maybe you guys are meeting partway in town, I need to meet up with you and give you the oven cleaning kit, and it and it makes it quick and easy, so they're not having to carry those chemicals around with them in their car, not good in the heat, I'm sure.
• 31:10
  SPEAKER_00: No, and you gotta check on their kits every now and again, too.
• 31:14
  SPEAKER_00: They still cleaned if they're you're if they're W2, if they're an independent contractor, you can't do this as much, but If they're a W-2 employee, please make sure that you're checking in at least once a week to make sure that they are using, like for me, above all, cleaning services, checklist of cleaning chemicals that are allowed in your cleaning kit.
• 31:41
  SPEAKER_00: And like you said, they jobber, you can see if there's needs to be an oven clean or I don't necessarily have a kit, but well, yeah, yeah, I guess I do.
• 31:54
  SPEAKER_00: I just never thought to call it that until just now.
• 31:58
  SPEAKER_01: There's an official name for it.
• 31:59
  SPEAKER_01: And then if you are running cleaning techs that are W-2s, you are responsible by the state that you operate out of for being OSHA compliant.
• 32:08
  SPEAKER_01: So they need to have a standard SDS sheet.
• 32:12
  SPEAKER_01: So it's a safety data sheet that you can actually pull off the internet.
• 32:16
  SPEAKER_01: So if you use Barkeepers Friends, you can print them out and put them in sheet protectors and hand them the book.
• 32:22
  SPEAKER_01: The I would go over with them when they're first training.
• 32:26
  SPEAKER_01: Hey, this chemical does this, this chemical does that.
• 32:29
  SPEAKER_01: And how to get rid of or hurt, you know, if you were to hurt yourself.
• 32:32
  SPEAKER_01: Like I had to have an eye wash machine stationed in in my office, even though no one came to the office to clean, they're not gonna drive across my town to have dyeballs.
• 32:45
  SPEAKER_01: It's only if it were to happen while they were there, but I had to have one.
• 32:48
  SPEAKER_01: So make sure that you're OSHA-compliant.
• 32:50
  SPEAKER_01: And part of being OSHA compliant is to have those books.
• 32:53
  SPEAKER_01: So if you have 12 clean cleaning texts, you need to have 12 um SDS sheets.
• 32:58
  SPEAKER_01: They used to be called MSDS sheets.
• 33:01
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and I can guarantee you half of them are probably running illegally, as far as that's concerned.
• 33:08
  SPEAKER_00: But we're here to give you, tell you that that's part of the dig with running a business.
• 33:15
  SPEAKER_00: And knowing you, you as the owner need to know about this stuff.
• 33:20
  SPEAKER_01: You can give them a little quiz like what's the recommendation for this product, or what do they recommend gloves?
• 33:28
  SPEAKER_01: Is this a corrosive, or I you know, I'm thinking off the top of my head, I don't have it down here.
• 33:33
  SPEAKER_01: I have an old one, I believe, upstairs.
• 33:36
  SPEAKER_00: But I did bring, I did bring out, I am, I you know, almost OSHA compliant.
• 33:43
  SPEAKER_00: And if OSHA's listening to this, I'm I'm compliant, but I do have these, are all you can see, all my papers for my SDS, and that's with any, this is why you need to downsize the chemicals that you use.
• 34:03
  SPEAKER_00: Any chemical, I don't care what it is, you have to have an SDS sheet for that chemical.
• 34:11
  SPEAKER_00: So the more chemical that you have, the more SDS sheets, and some of these can be because I have to print it off in English and in Spanish, can be pretty.
• 34:23
  SPEAKER_00: This one is this is just some of them are like 17 pages long.
• 34:27
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, this is just for soft cleaner, the barskeeper soft cleaner.
• 34:32
  SPEAKER_01: I do have stuff from uh Ryan at Long's products, and I believe pure evergreen and in there.
• 34:42
  SPEAKER_01: And uh I wonder if we have to have one for each smell, each like if it has a different ingredient you're supposed to technically have, but if you have one, they usually will let you slide.
• 34:53
  SPEAKER_01: It just depends.
• 34:54
  SPEAKER_01: It depends on the OSHA person.
• 34:55
  SPEAKER_01: Having an OSHA audit is awful and it's very painful, and the fines are large.
• 35:01
  SPEAKER_01: So make sure you're compliant if you have cleaning techs, and you should be familiar whether that that chemical is a corrosive or not, or if it has abrasives in it that could scratch your eyeball, or it could cause hives if you stick your hand in there on accident because you ran out of gloves.
• 35:19
  SPEAKER_01: Your cleaning techs need to know these things, and so having a safety meeting would be important.
• 35:23
  SPEAKER_01: We can talk about that on another and another time, right?
• 35:26
  SPEAKER_00: I agree.
• 35:27
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but that's gonna be it.
• 35:28
  SPEAKER_00: Let's put that in on my notes.
• 35:32
  SPEAKER_01: Well, so yeah, you want to make sure that you're not cross-contaminating and that you're keeping your supplies fresh.
• 35:38
  SPEAKER_01: If your brushes wear out, don't be a cheapskate with your cleaning techs, toss them in the trash, have them trade in the old one to get a new one.
• 35:47
  SPEAKER_01: That way they you know they didn't lose it.
• 35:50
  SPEAKER_01: And then explaining what your essential cleaning products are for different services.
• 35:54
  SPEAKER_01: So we had the to dawn or not don't.
• 35:57
  SPEAKER_01: So depending on where you sit in that, you'd either use Dawn or you wouldn't use Dawn.
• 36:02
  SPEAKER_01: And the then the tools, having a toilet brush is just part of the job.
• 36:06
  SPEAKER_01: I know some of you are grossed out about it, like uh, but if you do let them, if you let them run, you can bleach them if that floats your boat, and then but train your cleaning tech on that that right.
• 36:19
  SPEAKER_01: Show your how to use each chemical and what it's for so that that way they become a faster and more efficient cleaner, and they're not, you know, burning all this labor trying to figure it out.
• 36:29
  SPEAKER_01: So confused, right?
• 36:30
  SPEAKER_01: Mm-hmm.
• 36:31
  SPEAKER_01: And then I uh I like microfiber wholesale, I like them because they're made here in America.
• 36:36
  SPEAKER_01: I like supporting local company here in America, yeah, and then your eco-friendly products that's gonna be pure evergreen.
• 36:42
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know, is five and one considered it's non-toxic, yeah.
• 36:47
  SPEAKER_00: Or not non-toxic, it's it's different, not yeah.
• 36:50
  SPEAKER_01: So it's there's a difference between non-toxic and uh what we'd have to find out.
• 36:55
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, if you're listening, I apologize.
• 36:58
  SPEAKER_01: I don't remember.
• 36:59
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, take a photo of your cleaning kit and share it on social media using the clean kit challenge, see how your setup compares to other pros.
• 37:07
  SPEAKER_01: We can actually snap a photo of our kits and we can post them on our social media when this comes out.
• 37:13
  SPEAKER_01: I would love to see what your cleaning kits provide, and we can maybe start a tag, a post uh in the actual cleaning business slice Facebook page and get that challenge going.
• 37:24
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• 37:33
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• 37:34
  SPEAKER_01: What movie is that?
• 37:35
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• 37:39
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• 37:41
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• 37:46
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• 37:47
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• 37:51
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• 37:54
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• 37:55
  SPEAKER_00: We'll talk soon.
• 37:56
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• 37:57
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