Archive for Carpet Cleaning

Nov
02

If you own a popular restuarant…

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Chances are you’ll need your carpet cleaned every two months or so.

Heavy foot traffic, soiled kitchen floors, spilled drinks and food, driveway oils and the occasional upside down cake, all lead to unappetizing situations for your hungry diners. Give Connoisseur a call so we can discus what the best cleaning frequency and methods would work for your restaurant’s situation.

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I cant say enough about the Bissell Momentum upright.

$99 at home depot, better suction then the infamous Dyson, no bags to buy and all the extra tools you’ll ever need.  And best yet, no internal filters to clog. The popularity of bagless vacuums can be over hyped when uneducated home owners bring home their new Hoover or Eureka only to discover the half way through there home the new “bagless” vacuum looses most of it’s suction due to a clogged filter or in some cases, filter’s.

Who wants to wash a filter out every time you vacuum up after Chompers and Mrs Fiskers?

The Bissell has somehow gotten around Dyson’s patent and duplicated the same “venturing cyclonic (what ever that means)” filterless system and sells it to you minus the huge cost of an incredible marketing campaign. You can buy five of the Bissells for the cost of one Dyson and still come out a head in the suction department.

http://www.bissell.com/Products/c/uprightvacuum/p/3910MomentumVac/product.aspx

Give one a shot, what have you got to lose.?

Except pounds of dirt?

Edit: A new model has been introduced, the Bissell Healthy Home Upright.
At $250 or so it’s a complete Dyson knockoff but with a better brush roll, a pile height adjuster and half the price.

Nov
02

Thinking about new Counter Tops?

Posted by: Mike | Comments (0)

I would encourage you to take a drive over to Greenspace in Santa Cruz to look at their very unique options available.

While we would love to clean and maintain your Granite and Tile counter tops in the future, you really should look into the great “green” products that the fine folks @ Greenspace has to offer..

http://www.greenspacecompany.com/store/countertops/

Make sure to pick up some Neutral pH cleaner for your kitchen while your there.

Tell them Connoisseur sent you.

Mike

Categories : Carpet Cleaning, General
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I don’t know about you all but as a professional floor cleaner I can tell you that Carpet as a flooring choice is not as popular as it was five years ago.

Today, most of the homes I go into to service only have carpet in the family/TV room and the bed rooms. The rest of the home’s heavy use areas are getting covered in woods, stone and ceramic/porcelain tiles. Makes perfect sense really. Most hard surfaces are easier to keep clean for the home owner, less prone to show wear compared to carpet and considering to the rising cost of the “fuzzy” stuff, a great investment for your home.

We saw this trend coming years ago and have invested a lot of time, money and education into learning how to properly clean, restore and maintain Stone and Tiled flooring. We are getting lots of phone calls from confused and frustrated home owners who are having issues keeping their stone and grout looking like new. In many cases, if the floor in under a year old, we can walk the home owner through a very effective cleaning process over the phone. If it’s been a couple years and just no amount of scrubbing and bleaching is doing it then it’s time to call in the big guns at Connoisseur. You will be amazed at what

Steam Cleaning can do to bring that soiled Travertine, Limestone, Marble or snow white Grout. You have to see it in action to believe it.

Travertine being Steamed!

Travertine getting Steamed!

In most cases we like to come out and do a test and demonstration on hard floors, whether it be Marble, Saltillo or Concrete.

Please call Paula to set up a free estimate and inspection.

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Oct
30

YOU FOUND US!

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Welcome to the Connoissuer Carpet, Upholstery, Tile, Stone  & Grout Cleaning Blog.

831-476-9721 - Connoisseur Clean - Tile Cleaning in Santa Cruz California area

YOU FOUND US!!!
The best kept Tile & Grout Cleaning secret in Santa Cruz.

Connoisseur Tile & Grout Cleaning BIG Cleaning Truck - Providing premium tile cleaning, grout cleaning, stone cleaning, grout recoloring, and restoration in the Santa Cruz area including Aptos and San Jose

A Brief History

We’d like to introduce Mike and Paula Pailliotet of Connoisseur Tile & Grout Cleaning. Connoisseur is a quality minded company in the Santa Cruz area (Aptos, Capitola, Watsonville, Corralitos, Scotts Valley, Felton, Boulder Creek, Ben Lomond), also serving parts of Santa Clara county including San Jose, Saratoga , Los Gatos and the Summitt area (minimum charge) .They began Connoisseur as an owner operated company in May of 2001, and continue strong by gaining trust throughout the community.

Although it is a relatively young company, Mike has quite a bit of experience in the industry. He began in the field in 1987, in the L.A. area, working for a large company. With a new family to support (baby Monique on the way), Mike was lucky to find his niche. How many people do you know who truly like their job?  In the fall of 1988, the family of three moved to the Santa Cruz area, and Mike began working for a large carpet and upholstery cleaning company in the Bay Area. Not long after that (in 1990) their son Davis was born.

For the next 12.5 years, while working for the large company, Mike gained much experience. He became certified by the IICRC (http://www.certifiedcleaners.org) in Carpet Cleaning, Upholstery & Fabric Cleaning and Stone. (He is now also certified in Stone, Masonry & Ceramic Tile Cleaning.) He was involved in research and development of new equipment, products and techniques. He became confident in cleaning all sorts of carpet, upholstery and area rug fibers, even the ones most cleaners shy away from. He was also the most requested technician, asked for by most of the customers in his territory. Not only were people attracted to his skill and expertise, but also his friendly manner and sense of humor.

Mike put all this experience to work for him in his own business, Connoisseur, and is joined by his wife of 22 years, as office manager and occasional helper on the job site. You may also see the now teenage children helping here and there. Super assistant-extraordinaire Oswaldo Lee is also on board four days a week to help your job get done in a timely manner.

They would love to show you why all the best flooring retailers in town ONLY refer Connoisseur to their customers. Please read through the web site and you’ll find that they are not only the best equipped and most knowledgeable cleaning company in town but also the most respected.

Advance appointments are recommended.

Thank you for visiting.

  • Residential and Commercial wall to wall carpet cleaning
  • In home Area Rug cleaning
  • Upholstery Cleaning
  • Fabric Protection
  • Tile Cleaning
  • Stone Cleaning and polishing
  • Grout Cleaning & Sealing
  • Sanitaire Vacuum sales

WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT?

One look in our truck is all it takes to know that we are not your regular carpet cleaning company.

Mike with his Vortex Tile & Grout Cleaning machine

We have the equipment, knowledge and passion to get your floors and upholstery as clean as possible. We spend a fortune on equipment to stay on top of our trade, and it shows. We invite you to discover the best kept secret in carpet cleaning in the Santa Cruz Area.
DIFFERENT CLEANING PROCESSES

Steam? Shampoo? Dry Cleaning?  They all have their place and we do them all.

Don’t be taken by the many “One Method” cleaners in town. Whichever cleaning process we choose to best suit your carpet or upholstery, rest assured, we will take the time to do it right. You’ll never find us rushing through a job. We know how important each and every happy customer is.

We have the knowledge, equipment and techniques to get your carpet looking it’s best. We will safely and quickly get your carpet cleaned and dry. When it comes to Hot Water Extraction cleaning, our patented Vortex Cleaning Machine delivers results like you’ ve never seen before.  In most cases our “wet” cleaning process will dry quicker then our competitor’s “Dry” process. And you get the benefit of the sanitizing effect that only super hot water can provide. The Vortex also allows us to clean further away from our truck then any other company in town.

Cleaning your carpet to help maintain it’s looks and to prevent wear is very important. But what is even more important is to keep your home’s filter, your carpet, as clean as possible. Nothing effects in-home air quality more then having your carpets properly cleaned on a regular basis. Studies have proven time and again that clean floors will play the biggest roll in improving your allergen related problems.

The finest flooring retailers in town only refer us to their clients because they know our results cannot be beat. We invite you to see the difference.


“If you are looking for the cheapest company to clean your carpet, don’t look here.  If you are looking for quality, dependability, and integrity in a company because you value your home or business and care about extending the life of your carpet and care about how it looks, you are in the right place.  Paula and Mike run a top notch service with all of the latest know-how and some incredible work ethic thrown in.  They have never disappointed me, and I’m told that I’m picky.  I prefer the word discriminating.  My time is valuable to me and they are great at respecting my schedule and keeping their end of our bargain.  I hope to do business with them for a good while.”

- Linda Hopper
The Silver Spur
Santa Cruz

Connoisseur tile & grout cleaning truck in Santa Cruz California

Biodiesel used to power the Connoisseur Tile & Grout Cleaning Truck to help the environment and cut down on foreign oil dependency.
We are currently running 90% Bio Diesel in our truck
to help the environment and cut down on foreign oil dependency

Click here to read the June 10, 2006 article in the Santa Cruz Sentinel,
“Biodiesel station opens on Soquel Avenue”


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