Australian Carpet dyeing basics guide

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Title: Australian Carpet dyeing basics guide
Sub Title: Resource for personal & business reference

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Summary:
Australian carpet dyeing basics guide Resource for personal & business reference covers costs, basics of experiences, some need to know info and other general info most businesses try to hide.

About our DIY carpet dyeing solutions:
Having been in the color restoration and carpet maintenance business for over 30 years each, we have seen almost every situation related to colour, fabric and carpet spot problems.

We developed a unique carpet dyeing kit for these specific problems. It is easy to use, and sent to you for your specific problem. It will contain a custom color to match your spots with your particular carpet color thereby potentially saving you hundreds or thousands of dolllars.

A word of caution:
Unfortunately, all dyestuffs used in carpet are susceptible to bleaching, as are those used in most other textile products. If a spill of benzoyl peroxide containing product occurs. The area should be immediately cleaned by using liberal amounts of WATER. Spots detected in their early stages can also be treated with ammonia to stop further bleaching, although the process cannot be reversed. AND it should be also noted that ammonia will in even small conentrations bleach wool.

Did you know?

Many types of carpets can be dyed including Polyester, polypropylene, and acrylic cannot be dyed by normal carpet dyers. However the team and I at The ausis Group we over many years developed a special system to enable the ability to dye these and your other furnishings as close to your desired colours as possible.

Carpet dyeing info for businesses

If you are thinking of starting your own business in carpet dyeing this is the estimated expenditure on items you need.

Approximate costs for starting a basic carpet dyeing business

Our Items	amount	$ payable	Discount	Norm cost
Dye Kit	15	$2,100.00	15%	$2,595.00
Penetrator 5L	1	$55.00	15%	$75.00
Nuetraliser 5L	1	$55.00	15%	$75.00
Training 1 day	1	$500.00	15%	$600.00
1st year licence	1	$900.00	25%	$1,200.00


Totals		$3,610.00		$4,545.00

Other supplies
scrubber	$1,300.00
Pump	$300.00
Drum	$100.00
Lances	$150.00
Brush & cleanup	$50.00
Miscelaneous	$200.00

Totals	$2,100.00

Prior to starting any work we always like to inspect the items to be worked on to ensure the customers are not wasting time. See an example of a basic inspection at the following link
Australian carpet dyeing Inspection for work to be carried out and quality
or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2fEb4Fq73w

An extract from our instructional dyeing manual for our teams of colour restorers

A big tip if your interested in becoming a colour restoration technician or just want to do it yourself as a hobby:

At this point we would like to impress upon you that you should be testing as much carpet as often as possible even if at home and don’t feel that you are wasting it as you are increasing your colour skills to enable a speedier consult and job by knowing which colours can go with which to make or simulate another colour; many cases there is more than one way to skin a cat or in this case make a colour as you can see below we have given some common colours and recipes however with time and testing you will come across more varied and easier ways to get the colours for your clients.

The phone call and consult

Many people do not fully understand colour, so over the phone even video phones do not always show the right colour, they might tell you they want pink but they actually want salmon or violet this is why you should always go out & test & quote (henceforth referred to as a COLOUR CONSULTATION or consult) with a full kit of dyes & then go to the job with a full set of dyes.

When the person is on the phone prior to the consult; advise them of the consult cost and ask them to think about the colours they could want and have a colour in mind, when you get there. Also try to determine if the house / job is a fair distance away try to get a commitment on whether the job can be done there and then especially if only 1 room;

Try to group consults it makes no sense running round to 1 house 1 day and back again to the same area the next; bleach marks unless a large number are done. On a consult basis no manual work is done advise the client it will be from $90 but could go as high as $160 or more however the average is $90 most of the time.

In a recent conference with Consumer Affairs they advised us it is a good idea to get a credit card number whilst on the phone to the client and advise them you will be charging a fee for a consult which will act like a deposit, we found that quite often we were running around wasting our money doing consults and other people were getting hundreds of $$ for this, more to follow.

As many of you may know as you are or have been involved in public relations at some point of your life you should whilst having any dealing with the client be Honest, Professional, courteous, helpful, confident, informative, and friendly but not over friendly and most important of all do not complain about your ailments politics or religion etc.

When going to perform a dye job you will need to know some basic maths one of the formulas we use is below in a simplified format.

DYE				BATCHES
	0.5	1	2	3	4	5
0.5ml	10	20	40	60	80	100
1ml	20	40	80	120	160	200
2ml	40	80	160	240	320	400
3ml	60	120	240	360	480	600
4ml	80	160	320	480	640	800
5ml	100	200	400	600	800	1000
6ml	120	240	480	720	960	1200
7ml	140	280	560	840	1120	1400
8ml	160	320	640	960	1280	1600
Pen	40 50	80 100	160 200	240 300	320 400	400 500

If you are thinking of starting your own business in carpet dyeing or buying a dye licence or franchise the below analysis is what you can expect at a rate of around 25-35% expenditure.

Analysis of 25% of dye jobs in a 7 month period 2001 - 2002

QUOTED	SUBURB	SQ MTR	$	DYED	JOB $
10/09/2001	spring hill	bleach	$140	y	$140
21/09/2001	Mermaid	bleach	$80	y	$80
18/10/2001	Arundel	68	$750	y	$750
16/11/2001	Surfers P	62.6	$626	10/04/2001	$285	got tiled except br
29/11/2001	S-port	21.7	$239	13/12/2001	$220	cash discount
5/12/2001	Palm b	bleach	$99	y	$99
7/12/2001	Broad b	bleach	$120	18/12/2001	$120
8/12/2001	St lucia	91.9	$910	22/12/2001	$910
14/12/2001	un-wood	16	$275	y	$275	Harry potter special
15/12/2001	Curumbin	47.5	$525	y	$525	isl palm
18/12/2001	Broad b	bleach	$810	y	$810
21/12/2001	Raby bay	70.2	$1,020	4/01/2002	$950	Prepaid disc
3/01/2002	Merm B	bleach	$455	7	$455
9/01/2002	Nerang	bleach	$90	y	$90
8/04/2002	Merm B	38.1	$419	11/04/2002	$381	cash discount
9/04/2002	Capalaba	27.6	$302	Y	$276	cash discount
23/04/2002	Tweed	75	$825	y	$680	Aust cd quoted $8.50 m2

			$7,685		$7,046

We are proud to state what many other businesses refuse to

*The results of the jobs are totally dependent on the treatment of the Fabric, Carpet prior to restoration, protection or dyeing etc. and should any fault be evident are not a fault of the applicator. All potential clients are advised this is known across the industry and as such all clients are advised of this.

References for more information on Colour Restoration