Grand Cleaning

[Paul McCloud]

Paul:
The Jansen (bench) company has a nice cleaning wand that will clean under
the strings.  It has a fleece sleeve that slides over a thin plastic strip
with a comfortable handle.  Check their catalog.  You can also sell them to
customers for extra profit.
	Paul McCloud
	San Diego

Paul McCloud
Service Technician for PianoSD.com
www.pianoservsd.com 
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> [Original Message]
> From: Aart in America Piano Services <aartinamerica at optonline.net>
> To: Pianotech List <pianotech at ptg.org>
> Date: 03/28/2008 11:25:21 AM
> Subject: Re: Grand Cleaning
>
> Hi Paul.
>
> Could you recommend a technique for cleaning the soundboard?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Aart
>
> On Mar 28, 2008, at 1:53 PM, Paul T Williams wrote:
>
> >
> > Matthew,
> >
> > You'd be suprised at how many folks will pay for cleaning jobs.  You 
> > might notice in nicer homes if a cleaning person works there.  That's 
> > a good target market.  
> >
> > Yes, several levels of cleaning works well for me.  I always dust off 
> > the piano anyway after a tuning just as a nice gesture.  My prices 
> > would vary as to how dirty the piano is, but would offer further 
> > services like polishing pedals, sanitizing keys, cleaning action as 
> > well as keybed, etc.  The full monty includes soundboard, full plate, 
> > (even under strings with Q-tips) polishing cabinet, using furnature 
> > markers for covering scratches,keybed, action, damperheads, etc.  All 
> > in all, anything you can reach! That does take quite a bit of time.
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > Paul
> >
> >
> >
> > Matthew Todd <toddpianoworks at yahoo.com>
> > Sent by: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org
> >
> > 03/28/2008 12:22 PM
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> > Subject
> > Grand Cleaning
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > A client wants me to come over and clean her Kawai grand.  This will 
> > be my first, and I was curious as to what kind of service(s) I can 
> > offer her.  According to the "G" piano works labor guide, a complete 
> > grand cleaning can take as long as 3.5 hrs.  When I talked with my 
> > client, she had only mentioned about cleaning the soundboard, but then 
> > again, she may not realize all the dust that can accumulate in her 
> > keybed, etc.
> >  
> > What kind of cleaning services do you all offer?  Do you offer the 
> > most basic service and go up to the most complete cleaning?  When I go 
> > through a car wash, I can pay three bucks, and all they'll do is hose 
> > my car down.  Or I can pay more for scrubbing, and even more to get 
> > the wheels done.  I just need advice on how to sort this out.  3.5 hrs 
> > sounds like a great service, but I don't know how many clients are 
> > willing to pay that.
> >  
> > Thanks in advance!
> >  Matthew
> >
> >  
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