Melody, Yes, the tub does not have a large area for foot placement. So the opportunity for making a mess is pretty high!!!! I place a towel under the unit and another draped over the part with the controls. I have to sit on a stool since this tub is deep and sits higher than any other tub I have used. My clients love the jets and the heat. It really is not that noisy either. I will never get a throne unit. Years ago I whined to my husband that I wanted one and he asked me, "who gives the pedicure, you or the throne? Is the client coming for YOU or the throne?" Put this in perspective for me. The throne is just window dressing. The service is what they come to us for. But as for the scrubs mess, you just need to work around it. I love this unit and so do my clients! Yours will too. Buenos dias, Lynnette
Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -----Original Message----- From: "Melody C Montgomery" <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 06:21:28 To: <[email protected]> Subject: NailTech:: Re: pedicure chair Lynette, Do you have issues with making a mess with scrubs during pedis with this type of footbath? They look interesting but seem to have little surface area to catch falling product during pedis. What are your thoughts? Mel _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2009 9:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: NailTech:: Re: pedicure chair Pati, THAT is a great idea! To store the footbath under the platform. I have been toying with the idea of a platform mostly because I will be 50 this year and I know that getting down on the floor will start to "get old." (Lol) I have a Brookstone pedi spa like Michelle. I LOVE it and so do my clients. I am going to steal your idea! I am excited for your salon. PS- I will take up your offer for Scramble on Facebook when I get my new laptop. I had the kids take the one back they got me for Mother's Day so I can get a Mac this summer when Apple has their special sale. My N key on my laptop fell off so I would never have the speed for the game. What great ideas you send! Buenos dias, Lynnette Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile _____ From: Pati Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 21:16:53 -0400 To: <[email protected]> Subject: NailTech:: Re: pedicure chair When I was doing nails out of my house in Florida my husband made me one of these platforms....with a drawer base that pulled out to put the footbath on and push Wed in when I was done...I had bought a recliner, in a second hand store, and Aldo bolted it to the platform....so the client wouldn't fall off the platform! When I started at the salon...I gave it (sold it? don't remember) to Stephanie Ruggiero...who I think still has it.... The reason I am not doing that now is there is so much work for him to do in the nail room and "our" part...that I can't ask him to do more...and the price is right for this one. Maybe I will buy a massage pad and it might make it more comfortable for the clients.... <javascript:void(0)> Pati Everyone has a photographic memory. Some, like me, just don't have any film. -----Original Message----- From: Bobbi H <[email protected]> To: NailTech <[email protected]> Sent: Sat, 16 May 2009 2:34 pm Subject: NailTech:: Re: pedicure chair Hi Pati, When I had my salon, I had my husband make me a platform for my pedi.'s. All it was was basically a wooden box that was high enough to be comfortable that you did have to bend over and have feet in your lap. I had a nice wicker chair on there and of course my foot bath - but you could put any nice comfy chair on top of it. I actually had one of those pedi. carts that had the foot rest attached and he cut the foot rest part off and attached it to the box and then I had the cart part to sit on. I covered the box with some nice stick on tiles. For me it was a cheap idea that worked out really, really well. HTH! Bobbi On May 15, 11:15 pm, Pati <[email protected]> wrote: > has anyone worked with an hydraulic pedicure chair?? The kind that is the chair and a foot rest and has a place for the footbath...not a spa chair...how did/do you like it?? Pros...cons.... My hubby does not want me to charge a spa chair...he would rather me pay cash for it...and I keep telling him it is a vicious circle...pedis bring in money and if i don't have a setup then I can't do them.....I think this is a good compromise...I found a "brand new" one that i can get for 225.00 (cheapest i have found online was 399. with 85.00 S+H) the 225.00 I can pick up in the city so no s+h charge either.... > Now?I need to know about foot baths...is the footsie one still the best?? Or so it seems...you guys are always talking about it....I think. :)?? > I can't do just a footbath on the floor...not good for the client to put foot in my lap...uncomfortable...and?I can NOT get down on the floor anymore..well not easily anyway! > help?I need your opinions.... > > ?Pati > > Everyone has a photographic memory. > Some, like me, just don't have any film. _____ We found the real 'Hotel California' and the 'Seinfeld' diner. What will you find? Explore <http://www.whereitsat.com/?ncid=emlwenew00000001> WhereItsAt.com. </html No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.339 / Virus Database: 270.12.34/2122 - Release Date: 05/19/09 06:21:00 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NailTech" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/NailTech?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
