I have a friend and customer in Portishead. His name is Terry. Terry has a budgie called Cyril and a dad called Frank (who likes DIY and to paint his house).

Cyril (the budgie) lives in a cage in Terry’s bedroom in Franks house.

Terry went away for a weeks holiday with friends and so as the house was quiet and as his dad Frank had the chance he decided to to re-paper and paint the lounge.

Frank set to work. The papering went like a dream and after a very busy afternoon Frank decided to start work on the skirtings and doors he’d previously sanded.

Paint on the carpet.

It took Frank two days to paint the lounge but at the end Frank was chuffed to bits with his work and the lounge looked great. Apart from the paint allover the carpet at the back of the dining room where he’d had a bit of a mis-hap with the dusting sheet. No worries there Frank knew that Floor Blimey! Would get that up in no time, so he gave us a ring. And so Adrian went to Franks house, cleaned the carpet thoroughly and the paint came out really well thanks to the brilliant Texatherm system. As Frank had left him to it he locked up behind himself and returned the house keys to Frank at his workplace. Everyone was happy. Unfortunately as Frank was on the phone at the time Adrian didn’t get to remind him that his carpet would be dry in 30 minutes and as Frank only worked around the corner he decided to pop home and put on the de -humidifier to dry out the carpet during the afternoon whilst he worked.

So happy with carpet clean he booked a sofa clean too.

The next day Frank rang to say he was so thrilled with his carpet clean he’d like his sofa cleaned as well- could we pop out and do that tomorrow? As luck would have it Adrian had a cancellation so he was able to say yes.

The job was booked and Adrian turned up the next morning and got to work on the sofa. As you can imagine cleaning a sofa involves a lot of time at ground level and shuffling around on the floor. So Adrian was happily working and shuffling away when suddenly he felt a gentle crunch beneath his knees. He looked to see what he’d knelt on and in his words “couldn’t believe in all his days what the hell he saw”. It was poor old Cyril  – and Cyril was crisp.

You’ll remember Cyril is Terrys budgie. The budgie that Terry had asked Frank to look after whilst he was away on holiday. Oh dear.

It seems the day he’d finished decorating Frank had decided he’d like some company and brought Cyril’s cage down from the bedroom and had let him out to fly around the lounge as he sometimes does. Unfortunately, with his head full of thought’s about paint and wallpaper Frank forgot to capture Cyril and put him back in his cage after and back into the bedroom. And god knows how, but whilst being in the room and cleaning the carpets, Adrian hadn’t noticed him either. Which meant, when Frank had switched on the de-humidifier that afternoon and shut the lounge door he’d shut poor old Cyril in there as well. – Words cannot explain.

So now poor old Adrian had to brush up his remains and hand them over to a shocked Frank who then had to work out how he was going to explain himself to poor old Terry when he got back. And lets not gloss over this- the whole thing was really upsetting for everyone involved. After all no-one like to see an animal hurt.

Budgie friendly and dry in 30 minutes.

Naturally Frank thought about getting another budgie the same colour and hopefully Terry would be none the wiser, but after a lot of thought decided the chances of it being identical in every way were slim and that Terry had the right to know the awful truth.

This unfortunately for us was where the story ended but we do understand that although upset, Terry accepted that it had all been a terrible accident and he has forgiven Frank.

Frank has also vowed from now on to never use a dehumidifier again and to always use Floor blimey! For carpet cleans as they are, in most cases dry in 30 minutes- and therefore budgie friendly. 🐦