Drapery and carpet cleaner jobs in Finland
Drapery and carpet cleaners clean draperies and carpets for their clients by removing stains, dust or odors. They do this by applying chemical and repellent solutions and with the use of brushes or mechanical equipment.
Drapery and carpet cleaner – how much is the pay in Finland?
What the trade paid in 2024
| Median | 14.60 €/h |
|---|---|
| Bottom tenth | 11.50 €/h |
| Top tenth | 19.51 €/h |
| Employees | 432 |
Drapery and carpet cleaner - Which skills are essential?
Handle customer expectations in a professional manner, anticipating and addressing their needs and desires. Provide flexible customer service to ensure customer satisfaction and loyalty.
Make sure to keep yourself clean and tidy and wear protective equipment when performing cleaning activities, as required by the health and safety procedures of the task or the organisation.
Clean products or surfaces by using solvents to dissolve or extract other unnecessary substances.
Set up, maintain and operate roto, extractor and walk behind scrubbers and other floor care equipment to clean carpets and scrub hard floors.
Remove dust from furniture, blinds and windowsills using specialised dust cloths or hand-cleaning items.
Ensure proper handling, storage and disposal of cleaning chemicals in accordance with regulations.
Inspect the rug and use a groom to set the nap in the direction in which the knots are tied. Use detergents and non-chlorine bleaches to regroom, clean and brighten the fringes of the carpet, treating spots and odors.
Use a vacuum cleaner to remove dust and small particles from floors, drapes, carpets or furniture.
Use stain removal equipment to remove stains without damaging the fabric. Carry out garment and stain detection to identify the specific staining type such as wet or dry side staining in a safe and appropriate manner.
Keep the highest possible customer service and make sure that the customer service is at all times performed in a professional way. Help customers or participants feel at ease and support special requirements.
Clean and preserve the equipment and material used for cleaning purposes in a proper state.
Check the fabric for different kinds of stains such as invisible, perspirative, and oxidation stains. Understand the right way to deal with the defects by testing the nature of the stain, the type of fabric (absorbed, built up and compound staining) and the colour fastness of the dye.
Set up and operate a machine which unwinds, spins and dries the rug, extracting the majority of the water out of it. Hang it up to dry afterwards.
Preserve health, hygiene, safety and security in the workplace in accordance with relevant regulations.
Various techniques and tools used to clean different types of surfaces to achieve a certain degree of cleanliness such as sweeping, vacuuming, degreasing and wet cleaning.
Flush out detergents, soil and odors from cloth materials and articles using a water hose.
Tools with bristles used for a wide variety of purposes such as cleaning, painting, putting on make up and grooming hair. Materials used for bristles include animal hair, synthetic fibers and plastic. Various shapes exist such as cylindrical brushes and twisted-in wire brushes for cleaning brushes, and flat, round or mop for painting brushes.
Different types of carpet based on materials, production method, backing, fitting techniques, cost, durability, aesthetics and other criteria.
Drapery and carpet cleaner - Which skills are useful but not essential?
Follow the stock of cleaning materials, order new material when the stock is empty and closely follow their usage to maintain a constant supply.
Encourage sales by identifying the customer’s buying needs and by promoting benefits and features of the organisation’s services. Respond to and resolve customer objections and agree to mutually beneficial terms and conditions.
Manually or automatically sort waste by separating it into its different elements.
Build a lasting and meaningful relationship with customers in order to ensure satisfaction and fidelity by providing accurate and friendly advice and support, by delivering quality products and services and by supplying after-sales information and service.
Wash linens such as sheets, towels and table cloths with water and soap or detergent. Clean linens by hand or by the use of a washing machine.
Encourage sales by identifying the customer’s buying needs and by promoting benefits and features of the organisation’s products. Respond to and resolve customer objections and agree to mutually beneficial terms and conditions.
Follow-up/tracking of an order and notifying the customer when the goods have arrived.
Press and iron in order to shape or flatten textiles giving them their final finishing appearance. Iron by hand or with steam pressers.
Trim surplus material of fabric such as fiberglass mats, cloth, plastics or rubber.
Dispose waste in accordance with legislation, thereby respecting environmental and company responsibilities.
Use appropriate cleaning techniques and materials to clean upholstered furniture depending on the type of fabric used in its fabrication: cotton, synthetic, microfibre or leather.
Use high pressure equipment in order to clean areas, surfaces and materials.
Disinfect surfaces in accordance with sanitary standards.
Perform cleaning routines after equipment use.
Handle chemicals and select specific ones for certain processes. Be aware of the reactions which arise from combining them.
Set up or adjust machine controls to regulate conditions such as material flow, temperature, or pressure.
Remove stains in dry-cleaning by using the pre-spotting technique. Use a spotting board, which vacuums the garment attached to the spotting board through air suctions. Use a spotting gun to apply steam to loosen the stain and use a blow dryer to dry the fabric.
Check which items are suitable or unsuitable for dry-cleaning by interpreting care labels and decide which dry cleaning processes may be required.
The influence of chemical composition and molecular arrangement of yarn and fibre properties and fabric structure on the physical properties of textile fabrics; the different fibre types, their physical and chemical characteristics and different material characteristics; the materials used in different processes and the effect on materials as they are processed.
Handle wide or narrow body tunnel finishers which remove wrinkles from garments. Insert the material in a steam chamber, making the fabric moldable.