Green Solutions was incorporated January 10th 2010  as Harrisonburg's First Green Cleaner and it has been an amazing ride.  It is hard to believe that four years has gone by but here we are starting our fifth year.  I offer a big “thank you” to everyone that rallied to help launch our little business.   Many friends and family have given equipment, used our services, told their friends and spread the word any way they could.  Everyone has counted in the cause to move forward.

I want to thank my brother for pointing me in the right direction in this line of work.  He has been there, done this, still doing it, and has all the t-shirts to prove it.

I also want to thank my daughter, Alex.  She will jump at the change to go to work with me, as long as she gets paid a percentage!  Alex has assisted in the cleaning of over 40,000 square feet of carpet and has seen more student housing than a college student!

I mostly want to thank my wonderful wife, Carole, for diving in with both feet and becoming an amazing business partner.  Her marketing talents surpassed everyone expectations and her phone skills are untouchable in this industry.  She has been my secret weapon that the competition just can’t duplicate.

Small business is always a challenge and Green Solutions is no different.  We have new bridges to cross as we expand our rug cleaning operation under a second name that will be known as Harrisonburg Rug Cleaning.    Carole has started her own career as a Real Estate Agent with Kline May Realty and so I am answering the phones now.  I am very thankful that I had the opportunity to listen to Carole talk to many clients and I now try to emulate the master.

Every year we grow but how do we handle the volume and keep the quality.

More bridges to cross.

I guess we will see.

Thank you

Barry Click

Please, never scrub your carpet!

Professional carpet cleaners have many tools for the trade.  We carry a truck load of wands, hoses, rags, buckets, buffers, black lights, moisture sensors, cleaning agents, spotters, vacuum cleaners and sprayers.  That is just for carpet cleaning.  Let’s not talk about upholstery or Oriental rug cleaning.  However, there is one thing that we almost never use.

We almost never use a brush.

The lowly carpet “scrub wand” as it is known, has no brushes.  It has a smooth stainless steel lip at the suction end.  No real scrubbing there.

We carry a brush with our spotting paraphernalia, but it is only to be used to tamp the spotting agent into the spot.  So what is the deal!

Ok, here is the reason why.  Carpet fibers will fray and permanently distort if you scrub or rub then too much.  If you are trying to remove a spot, do not scrub.  It does not help much anyway, trust me.  If you scrub and are lucky enough to remove the spot, there will be a permanently visible distorted area of carpet that cannot be fixed by cleaning.

So what do you do?  This is why you hear so much about “blotting”.  Apply you favorite spotting agent and give it time to work.  Then put a clean dry rag on top of the spot.  Step on it with your shoe and firmly press down.  Do not rotate your foot or “scrub”.  Remember, you are blotting which uses the rag to draw the cleaning agent and the spot out of the carpet.   Remember, never scrub your carpet.

You can also read my earlier blog post about using a wet dry vacuum to remove pet spots.  This can work for any spot and requires no scrubbing.

Barry Click

Green Solutions Carpet and Upholstery Cleaning LLC

540-705-6171

www.GreenSolutionsCleaning.net

www.CarpetCleaningHarrisonburg.com

www.Harrisonburgrugcleaning.com