Subs treating my Bissell vacs like crap, done with this BS

I'm up in Minnesota and been running a small cleaning outfit for 8 years now, mostly subcontracting out to bigger firms for office deep cleans and residential moves. Last week one of my crews came back with a brand new Bissell PowerForce that the sub helper had run over with his truck tire, bent the handle all to hell and cracked the tank. These guys don't give a damn about equipment, they just sling it around like it's free, and now I'm out $150 replacing it because the company won't reimburse for 'wear and tear'. Saw a similar rant in the Cleaning Business Owners group last month about subs ruining O Cedar mops on purpose. It's killing my margins, had to bump my sub rates by 15% just to cover the constant repairs on things like my Hoover commercial extractors. Someone in r/CleaningTips mentioned watching Melissa Maker's video on tool maintenance, but these idiots wouldn't listen anyway. FML, thinking of going solo again to avoid this headache.

haha, had a sub drop my entire kit of microfiber cloths into a toilet bowl once, fished em out sopping wet.

man i feel you, same crap with my cleaning subs here, always breaking stuff.

SharkBite fittings are fine behind walls. Fight me.

screw these subs, they treat gear like its disposable and we foot the bill every time.

exactly, its the same old story in every trade.

ive got 5 years subbing cleaning jobs and never broken a vac once, my crews take pride in it.

try this: make em sign for every piece of equipment before and after, cuts the BS real quick.

goddamn frustrating, just had to replace a whole Dyson upright cuz sub 'forgot' it in the rain.

don't sub out to anyone without ironclad agreements on equipment liability, learned that the hard way.

warning: had a sub cause a fire with a faulty cord on my old vac, almost lost the whole job site.

i hear ya, minnesota winters make equipment last half as long anyway with all the salt and crud.

yep, been there with my extractors getting trashed.

just quoted a sub job and told em upfront: you break it you buy it, no exceptions.

frustrated as hell, lost $200 on a shattered glass cleaner tank last week from some sub's rough handling.

customer called thinking we left a mess, turns out sub spilled bleach everywhere and bounced.

we're all in this together, subs ruining the rep for everyone.

lost count of the vac filters ive replaced cuz subs dont clean em proper.

try locking up the good gear in your van, only give em the cheap stuff.

screw the big cleaning corps, they push subs too hard and equipment takes the hit.

had a good laugh when a sub tried to 'fix' a jammed roller with a hammer, totalled it.

another one bites the dust, literally.

insurance might cover it if you document every damage, worth a shot.

yeah subs are the worst, always skimping on maintenance too.

lol my sub once used my vac to suck up a whole nest of mouse turds, clogged it solid.