- To your customers, it’s a damaged floor.
- To you, it’s easy money & as always with Bane-Clene there are NO FRANCHISE FEES!
- From Bane-Clene and Wood-Solv formerly Rx for Wood Floors
Wood-Solv - Build Your Profits from Scratch
Now carpet pros can gain incremental sales from the growing trend of residential hardwood floors without having to give up a bunch of your profits to franchise fees. New Wood-Solv wood floor care and repair system features award-winning NO-SANDING technology that’s simple to use and fast drying. It is a turnkey system that includes training, selling materials and a broad product line (link opens in a separate tab or window in the Bane-Clene store). You could earn anywhere from $200 to $400 per room. It’s as easy as picking money up off the floor!
Presently, there are more than 20 million homes across the nation with exposed wood floors and two out of three of these homes have some form of damage on their wood floors. Wood-Solv enables professional carpet cleaning companies to grow their customer base by 20 percent by offering wood floor professional refinishing and wood floor care with no mess and minimal disruption. With profit margins as high as $400 per room, you can certainly hear the sound of opportunity knocking on wood.
The Wood-Solv line provides professional carpet cleaning professionals a key business opportunity to expand their businesses to include the restoration and care of hard wood floors.
The system is a three-step process that requires no sanding. The traditional method of refinishing entails sanding, which creates a lot of dust and inconvenience for homeowners.
The Wood-Solv program uses formulas that chemically abrade and refinish the wood topcoat, requiring no sanding. Instead, the technician employs low-speed a (175 rpm) buffer and medium-grade buffing pad.
In the wood floor care and repair training class, you are taught ways to repair the wood floor.
The putty dries in about a half hour and dries harder and faster than traditional wood putties.
When repairs are complete, Step 3, the wood floor top coat finish, is applied, making the repair even more invisible to the eye, so you make scratches almost undetectable to the homeowner.
In addition, the process is fast. According to the standard of a 15X15-ft. room using a two-person team, a wood restoration job can be completed in about four hours, assuming there are no repairs to be made.
It takes a half hour for step one repairs; step two can vary in time, depending on the extent of required repairs; a half hour for step three, which dries in 75 minutes, and a half hour for application of the second wood finish coat, followed by another 75 minutes to dry.
The wood top coat is twice as durable as conventional wood finishes and does not yellow as it ages. Additionally, the chemicals produce no hazardous fumes, so there is no need for special ventilation during application.
On average, the Wood-Solv finish is expected to last as well as or better than other residential top coats. The industry standard for the life of a top coating is three to five years.
We are trying to give professional carpet cleaners the tools and products to really satisfy the homeowner. In doing so, we hope to enhance the relationship between the carpet cleaner and the consumer and provide an add-on sale.
The Wood-Solv program provides participating companies with the product training and sales and marketing support they need to rapidly get their wood floor care & refinishing service up and running and generating revenue.
The program includes:
- Comprehensive, hands-on product wood floor care & repair training classes for carpet cleaning professionals.
- Wood Floor Care product training information via DVD’s.
- A toll-free hotline for ongoing technical support.
- Extensive sales and marketing assistance including advertising support and product brochures.
- Training classes in Indianapolis.
Selling the Wood Floor Refinishing Job:
If you are already cleaning the carpets for a customer, you’ve passed the first hurdle to selling a Wood-Solv job: you’re in the home or office of the customer and have established a relationship with them. Congratulations.
While you’re on the premises, make a visual evaluation of any wood flooring that you can see. Are there worn areas? Scuffs, scratches or dings? If you can see any signs of wear, you have a way to open up the discussion of rejuvenating their wood floor, before it gets to where it has to be sanded, and at a substantial savings versus sanding and refinishing.
The person making the decision will base their decision on their trust in you and the benefits that the Wood-Solv system has to offer them. When you open the discussion of the wear and tear on their wood floors, remember to sell on the benefits of the Wood-Solv system and their trust in YOU:
Minimal disruption and mess - the system takes less than one day to complete without messy sanding, and in 8 hours they can go lightly on their wood floors. In 24 hours, the wood floor is fully rejuvenated! A contractor would need almost a week to clean, sand, finish and clean up. And, the dust from the sanding would be throughout the house!
Professional Results - high quality products from RPM’s Wood Finishes Group, a leader in wood coatings. The Wood-Solv finish is more durable than competitive finishes, with 5 times the solids.
Savings versus Contract Sand and Finish - a contractor would charge anywhere from $2 - $8 per square foot to complete the same project. It depends on the market. So, Wood-Solv is an economical alternative to waiting for the floors to deteriorate to the point of sanding and refinishing.
And finally, would that customer trust a contractor she might use once in a lifetime versus you, her trusted carpet cleaning professional?
The Wood Floor Care Training Program:
Wood Training Class
With the wood floor care & repair training program and the training manual, you will learn to restore and rejuvenate a wood floor without sanding. In the hands-on training class conducted in Indianapolis, you will learn:
- How to review and evaluate wood flooring damage.
- What wood floor damage can be repaired, and what cannot.
- What wood floor conditions to avoid.
- How to complete minor floor repairs on wood and Pergo floors.
- How to properly use the Wood-Solv system.
- How to introduce and sell Wood-Solv Floors.
- How to price out a wood floor opportunity.
The Five Easy Steps:
- Evaluate the wood floor
- Room & Floor Preparation
- Use Wood-Solv No-Sanding Prep
- Complete necessary repairs
- Lock down the top coat with Wood-Solv Finish
Removal of residues from products like Orange Glo®, Murphys® Oil Soap, Holloway House® and Mop & Glo®:
If you do a search on the web, you’ll find thousands of complaints about a white, hazy, cloudy film on hardwood and laminate floors after using these products, especially Orange Glo, with most consumers extremely angry about what the products have done to their floors - resulting in oily, streaking, dirt-attracting residues. Of course, this is sometimes due to overuse of the products, but most of the consumers say they used the products according to label directions.
Many consumers have found that using diluted Windex® Concentrate at 1:3 with water and “elbow grease” will cut through and remove the film. Some professionals have found that using Windex Concentrate diluted 1:3 with water and a red pad on a buffer will easily cut through the film, followed by a clear water rinse. Of course, minimal water should be used and water should never be used on a bare floor. If this is a wood floor, to be on the safe side, we suggest that you then screen the floor followed by thorough vacuuming and using a tack rag to ensure the complete removal of any dust.
Directions from Orange Glo’s customer service line:
- Mix 1/2 cup of ammonia with 1 gallon of warm water.
- Apply solution to floor with mop in inconspicuous place first to test.
- Once you determine it’s okay to use on your floors - apply to floor and let stand for 5 minutes.
- Wipe up the solution with a clean soft cloth.
- Wipe with circular motion if there is more of a build up.
- According to how much build up you have...you might have to repeat the process until it’s all off.
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