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How many square feet are you heating with the one heater? Today the contractor was tearing out the floor of our old auto bays and the floor heat tubing was in the very bottom of the slab. Pea gravel (bad idea), re-mesh directly on top of that (so it was basically useless), tubing directly on top...

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Nope.

^^This^^ plus the rotary switch may be a "break before make" (non-shorting) instead of the preferred (IIRC) "make before break" (shorting) type.

45 GPM each pump? I thought they were Cat 3535s.

2" seems way overkill. How many bays are you feeding?

I don't know. Our city water has 18 grains of hardness.

Those prices seem really high to me but I'm not surprised the owner is asking that much for them. I assume the expenses do not include labor so you are basically buying a not so fun job for $550K that pays $28K/year. If he didn't report all cash on income taxes then he really screwed himself now...

Just as I expected. After meeting the plumber today he has to do some research on what I want. He seems like a very experienced plumber but maybe this is just not that normal of a scenario. That's why I'm asking you guys as some of you have done this.

A 2" water main should be in the hundreds of GPM depending on pressure. If using all softened water then make sure the softener has enough flow as it could be a bottleneck. Are the Petits gravity fed and if so what size tank(s) do they supply?

You clearly have not checked out ICS. The prices are laughable and I know two owners that have lots of recurring issues with them. We were quoted just under $100K for a fully optioned pay station from ICS. Crack smokers.

As a side note (because 2Biz may bring it up :)) have you seen the new price of the HTK PH199-80? Yikes! http://bostonheatingsupply.com/phoenixph199-80stainlesssteelngwaterheater.aspx

Another thing. Eventually we would like to replace the 20 year old 627,000 BTU floor heat boiler with something more space saving and efficient. We are reducing our floor heat square footage and will have around 2,000 square feet or so when finished. Thinking again of going with maybe two...

We were going to replace the old 399,000 BTU boiler several years ago but never got around to it. We are doing a major remodel of our wash now and want the floor space for more equipment and chemical storage. If we put the 60 gallon stainless storage tank where the boiler is now then we can...

Our eight 7/8" diameter by 24" long J-bolts for setting in the concrete and the template showed up the other day. They seem massive for a pay station canopy but I have not seen the canopy yet. After that I started looking at the ones on street light poles and traffic light poles and they don't...

Here is a little reading material for you: https://www.carwashforum.com/threads/corporate-express-exteriors-are-out-of-their-ever-loving-minds.21672/

I don't think so but they are building them anyway.

I can give you a list of stagnant cities in Ohio that have 10K-15K population that are now going to have a new EE built.

We have not bought any this year yet but last year bulk methanol here was 3 something (.50?) a gallon if you picked it up and brought your own containers. It is just alcohol racing fuel and is at a self serve pump like a gas station would have.

Knowledge and efficiency are important for hourly rate. Did you talk to the owner about what you were going to charge before you started?