Industry leaders estimate that as much as 95% of the furniture sold each year is not professionally cleaned on a regular basis. With over seven billion dollars worth of fabric covered furniture sold each year to residential buyers alone, upholstery cleaning is one of the largest untapped markets in the cleaning industry. For the self-employed cleaner, this is a highly profitable market that is waiting to be sold, serviced, and maintained. 
In the past, furniture cleaning was largely a matter of washing down soiled fabric with a soapy sponge. Now with the advent of new fabrics, finishes, and dye systems, cleaning has become a more complex task, requiring special skills, knowledge, equipment, chemicals, and procedures. 
This book provides step by step how-to procedures and the practical information you need to take advantage of the many profitable opportunities available in the on-site upholstery cleaning industry.

Upholstery Cleaning On-Site

Moore, Roy

Smith, F.

Cleaning Consultant Service

Carpet Cleaner's Guide to Increased Sales and Profit

Business & Money

Until now, home owners, property managers, cleaning services and renters desiring clean draperies had to take them down and have them cleaned in-plant. Disassembly, cleaning, and reinstallation is time consuming, potentially damaging, difficult and expensive. On-site drapery cleaning is one of the newest and most exciting specialty service. Gives you up-to-date, practical advice on using the latest equipment, chemicals, and procedures.

Drapery Cleaning On Site

Economics

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 specification, 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 properties.

How to Sell and Price Contract Cleaning

Griffin, William R.

Davis, John G.

This one of a kind handbook provides information on organizing a cleaning department or service. Tips on time studies, work analysis and documentation, plus useful forms, charts and diagrams are included in this interesting book. An industry classic you'll enjoy reading.

Professional Cleaning and Building Maintenance: How to Organize a Money-Saving Service Business or a Department for Floor and Building Cleaning

Clarke,Bill

A great one person business that's easy to start, in demand everywhere and highly profitable as supply and equipment costs are minimal. Judy Suval provides complete information on licenses, taxes, advertising, bookkeeping, and step by step procedures for cleaning windows profitably on a full or part time basis. Suval compares servicing commercial and residential accounts and details how to price your work for profit. Illustrations, diagrams, and sample forms are included, along with a short chapter on bartering, bidding and finding customers.

How to Start a Window Cleaning Business

Suvall, Judy

Comprehensive Carpet and Rug Cleaning: A Training, Reference and Certification Manual for Cleaning Professionals

Gary Kanter

Reference

A valuable reference tool for the established business or the beginning entrepreneur, by true professionals in the cleaning industry.  The author started his successful contract cleaning business in 1959 and wrote this book to help beginning entrepreneurs avoid the common hassles, problems and errors most start-up cleaning enterprises encounter.

Building Service Management

Phillips, William K.

Gendei, Edward J.

Management & Leadership

This comprehensive manual contains a lifetime of information that will provide a strong educational foundation for any carpet and floorcovering inspector. The authors cover every aspect of professional inspections. This detailed yet easy to understand and use handbook is ideal for inspectors, manufacturers, retailers, dealers, installers, cleaners and textile labs. Some of the important topics covered include: the inspector's role, marketing your services, dealing with consumers, legal issues, fibers, backings, construction methods, cushion, warranties, installation, cleaning, concrete, manufacturing defects, tools and testing, corrections, report writing, forms and resources.

Carpet Inspector's Handbook

Weinheimer, Terry

Weinheimer, Kevin

This book provides extremely detailed and comprehensive insight and step-by-step instructions for starting your own housecleaning service.  It includes  sample forms for recording financial and employee data, estimates, schedules and bids. The author provides important tips on everything ranging from advertising, bidding, accounting, insurance, competitors, vacations, safety, products, supplies, equipment and employees. Everything you need to plan, design, and implement your own business...all in one very helpful volume!

Everything You Need to Know to Start a Housecleaning Service

Johnson, Mary Pat

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