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You need to look and see how many amp service you have coming in. I would think that 400 amp would be minimum and that might not be enough if you are already close to your maximum. If you stage your wash so the dryers only work when the Iba is not in you could make it work. Most Ryko iba take...

I rented a small track hoe and a dump trailer today to clean out 7 of my SS pits that had a bunch of black sand build up. The total cost for the day was $340 and took us about 4 hours. This very heavy stuff. You could not stick a clam shovel in to it, it was that hard.

The WCA has a employee handbook for car washes. The ICA might also have one.

I have done a repour once. Make sure that when rebar is laid down that it is anchored into the good remaining concrete by drilling into it. Rebar on at least 2 foot centers but I prefer on 1 foot centers. Standard concrete here is 3500lb mix but I stepped it up to 4500 LBs. and added fiber mesh...

Kleenrite suggested the small single motor vac than Je adams makes. They said it has more suction than a 2 motor but not quite as much as a 3 due to the smaller style canister. That does not make sense me to since you are sucking air through the same size hose you would not move the volume of...

Jim would be a good choice for this idea. He is willing to listen to the folks in this industry.

Does your system have part of the reject water plumbed back in to the incoming water? Many of the most efficient systems do this.

Has anyone seen a wall mounted vacuum? I don't really want to stick a round one down on the end of my building. A sleeker, flat design one would be perfect. I think most car washes have open wall on the end(s) that would be a good place for one. If we had a nice wall mount vacuum option we could...

I recently looked at renting a small track hoe and dump trailer so I could get the black sand out of the bottom of some of my pits. The price to rent was pretty cheap. I can rent the track hoe and dump trailer for $1000 per week or the combo for $300 per day. If you have some property and your...

I converted my SS in bay triple foam over to Rain X about 10 years ago. It gets much more usage and people come just because they can get the Rain X. I think Steve has the same SS equipment as I do. I just flushed the tanks and put in the Rain X. With good signs by the gun it sells itself.

The white hose sleeve is just PVC pipe.

This time of year I have to pump my pits at least once per month due to heavy mud. If I had to pay someone to do it I would have to raise my prices. We have a ring o matic vac pump. Every few years we have to have a small backhoe do the bottom of the pits as black sand builds up and vac trailer...

I have been trying for years to get a credit card company to offer a loyalty card system that could be used by individual car washes. Basically we need a company to be the clearing house for a credit card, example ( ABC car wash) that sells to its customer. The clearing house would let us setup...

All the casinos have been raising their rates in addition to charging for things that used to be free like parking. MGM just had a 5% last week and all the other chains are following. Yes the weekend is more money on the strip.

I use secure coin for the last 15 years. They have been very reliable to me.

Sparkey, I brought a old thread back up that I started a couple years back for hose hangers.

Brought this back up for the guy looking for easy hose hanger. After 2 years I can say that they very rarely get left on the ground now and people really like them. I have seen vac revenue go up since doing this.

Etowah. Valley equipment has a voice module with their coin boxes and the customers like hearing the selection by voice. They have worked well with very few problems for me.

Another way you might be able to do unlimited SS. Wash is to use a access control setup like they use for security into businesses. Door access using rfid tags is popular and can be easily converted over to activate a self service bay.

I used the original Wash Card system with rfid. Tags the size of a quarter placed on the windshield. I made my own rfid. Reader that attaches to my ACWS . I am using this setup for unlimited auto washes but it could easily be used for SS. Bays. I picked up some of these for $100 each off the...