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Article: Boosting your effectiveness: every once in a while I can't help but talk about some of the most effective gadgets or "tools" in the chemical world. This month's column has to do with chemicals used for boosting your cleaning performance. But first, a little history.(The Gadget Man)
- Article from:
- ICS Cleaning Specialist
- Article date:
- January 1, 2008
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Some of you may not have yet been born when I started cleaning carpets. Back in 1974, we had little of the chemical technology available today to help us perform our job. My brother and I started cleaning just after "steam cleaning," or hot-water extraction as we know it today, was invented. Our cleaning chemical was a powdered formula we put in our little extractor, and that was pretty much it. Over the next couple of years we struggled on, learning little by little, muddling our way through, working hard and doing everything we could to make our customers happy. But we knew we were missing something.
Finally, the opportunity came and we attended a ...