How to Pick a Carpet Cleaning Company
When you pick a carpet company to come into your home to clean your carpet you’ll need to pick a reputable company that will give you personalized service and have good work ethics. When you are looking for a carpet cleaning company always ask for references and check out their website.
You are letting someone in your home or business so it is important to check and see what type of employees a company hires by checking them out.
At Commercial Steam Team we are family owned and operated. Our employees have been hand selected based on their personalities and work ethic. See a short video on how we treat our employees as family.
Meet the Team at Commercial Steam Team
We provide the best service possible by offering you thoroughly trained staff, high quality equipment, superior service and a nice clean carpet!
Meet our team of skilled professionals and see how we can improve the look of your carpet. Our company has such pride in the job that they follow up with a phone call after the job to make sure that you are satisfied.
Visit our team page at https://commercialsteamteam.com/ and give us a call if we can be of service 952-224-7222
CST Loves Disc Golf
Saying they are passionate about disc golf just can’t describe the love that Ryan and Russ have for their favorite sport. Ryan and Russ love to compete against each other and hold bragging rights until the next face off!
Disk golf is better exercise than regular golf – the course is not flat like a golf course you have to climb and hike between holes. Each disk course is different in terrain, scenery and skill level.
Here are some of the favorite Disk Golf Courses in Three Rivers Park District:
Bryant Lake Regional Park – 18 hole course has short and long tee boxes, scenic lake views and infamous hole #17 where golfers throw their disk off a cliff to reach the basket.
Elm Creek Park Reserve – 18 hole course that follows the sledding hill and terrain portion of the park. The course features 2 par 4s, multiple signature holes and other champion caliber holes.
Hyland Lake Park Reserve – 18 hole disk tournament course at Hyland ski area has one of the best views in the twin cities. Climb up steep elevations and descend for a fun and challenging course.
For more info visit The Three Rivers Parks website http://www.threeriversparks.org/parks.aspx
Meet The Team: Russ Jr.
Russ Zakariasen Jr. – President
Carpet cleaning can be frustrating, but it can also be the easiest thing in the world. Getting to know who you will be working with can help ease the stress of deciding who to choose for your carpet cleaning needs. Who better to get to know than the president of the company?
Russell Hamline Zakariasen III, or Russ Jr. as we call him, was born in Quincy Callifornia and raised in Burnsville Minnesota. Athletic by nature he was the captain of the golf team for the Burnsville Braves, later changed to the Burnsville Blaze. He attended business school at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Now of course he is president of Commercial Steam Team working with his dad and brother.
Russ Jr. can often be spotted at Kaposia Park in South St. Paul playing disc golf with his brother Ryan or at Northfield Golf Club playing golf with his Dad. His greatest passion has been coaching his sons basketball and football teams in the Rosemount Athletic club.
I sat down with Russ Jr. and asked him a little Q&A to help you get to know him better.
Q. How did you get into the professional carpet cleaning industry?
A. Like most kids I needed a summer job in High School. I started telemarketing for a carpet cleaning company in Bloomington Minnesota. I worked at that company through my last two years at Burnsville High School and through my four years at the University of Minnesota.
Q. What do you like about the carpet cleaning industry?
A. I love the daily interaction with our customers. We have built such a loyal customer base over the years with wonderful people. They really show appreciation for the way we do business. That positive reinforcement means a lot.
Q. What was most important to you when starting this company?
A. We wanted to create an environment where we found nothing but the very best employees, then treated them with appreciation, respect, and paid them well, so they would stay with our company long term, and treat our customers the way we need them to. This really worked well!!
Q. What is it like working with your family?
A. I truly enjoy working with my family, working toward a common goal together. We also are so lucky to have employees who feel like a part of our extended family.
40 Years of Marriage
Russell Hamline Zakariasen ll, or as we call him Russ Sr. and his wife Lynda, formerly Lynda Lee, have been married for 40 years as of January 16, 2011. I could not be more proud of my business partner and father (for hanging onto a catch like my mother). And I couldn’t be more proud of my mom (for hanging in there) Just kidding, they have done what each of us hope to do in our lives and that is live them to the fullest and share it with those we love. Both born and raised in Hopkins Minnesota. As an elementary school teacher my mother, Lynda, has achieved her Masters degree and influenced not only the lives of her own children but also those of hundreds of children in her classes in Burnsville Minnesota as well. Dad has been an adventurous soul from building Cedar Hills Golf and Ski club with his father in Eden Prarie Minnesota, to gold mining in Quincy California, then came home to opening one of the first quit smoking clinics in the country right here in Edina Minnesota. He finally found his place in the world by teaming up with his two sons Ryan and Russ Jr. in the carpet cleaning industry. Together, with the unimaginable patience and faith of Mom, the three of them started the Commercial Steam Team and have enjoyed every moment of this rollercoaster ride.
Congratulations Mom and Dad for 40 years that I couldn’t begin to describe in a short blog post. May you have another 40 years even greater than the last.
Meet The Team: Russ Sr.
Hiring a carpet cleaning company is a big decision, and we want you to know who you will be working with. Today we focus on Russ Sr. He is one of the owners and does the carpet and upholstery estimates for commercial clients.
In addition to my business partner Russ Sr. is also my father. Raised in Hopkins Mn, he married a beautiful Hopkins native and elementary school teacher named “Mom”. Lol. j/k. Her name was Lynda Lee, now Lynda Zakariasen for the past 40 years.
Dad has had a varied work life since he was a child. He has done everything from ski instructor to gold miner, landscaper to stock broker. He has finally sat still in Burnsville MN for the last 13 years working with his two sons, Ryan and Russ.
Russ has a passion for the sport of Golf and has won many tournaments and club championships. Belonging to Northfield Golf Club, “Zak”, as he’s known at the club, has found the friendships and competition that he has always been looking for. I can say from watching my father that he has never been happier than he is now. Having found places that he truly belongs in both his social and work life he is bursting with joy.
Here’s a little Q&A to get to know him better.
Q. Why did you get into the carpet cleaning industry?
A. My two sons were working in the industry and I thought what greater dream could a proud papa have then to work side by side with my children.
Q. What do you like about the carpet cleaning industry?
A. I like that I can see the results on each job when we are done. There aren’t a lot of industries that have such tangible results.
Q. Why commercial estimating?
A. I do all the estimates because that is the best opportunity to meet and get to know every customer.
Q. What was most important to you when starting Commercial Steam Team?
A. That we treat every customer and every employee with respect and honesty.
Q. What is it like working with your family?
A. It is by far the best work experience I have ever had.
In a side note, Dad would pay our employees out of his own mortgage when we didn’t even have enough money to pay ourselves. This is one of the reasons that I am so proud to be both his son and his business partner. I would hope every client see him for who he is, one of the “good guys”.