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My distributor set my bays with 2 single booms 6’ apart. One is nearer the entrance and the other nearer the exit….wand holder on one side and brush holder on the other. I like it OK but like MEP said they usually get tangled when “double teamed”. If I could do over I think I would try the...

My wash is a 7/1 and yes it does have a water softener. Both the well and city water feed the plumbing system. The well feed flows past a pressure switch and through a check valve before tying into the plumbing. The city water feed contains a solenoid valve controlled by the pressure switch...

I have no idea as to the brand of the pump. My well uses a 1.5 hp submersible pump, bladder tank and a pressure switch. I had to replace the pump once...the first one lasted 4 years and the current one is 7.

I’ve had a well since day one. It probably saves me $500/mo. on a slow month and over a $1,000/mo. on a good month. I run on the well as a primary source and keep city water as an automated back up.

6 months to almost 1 year. The brand was Recora.

Before changing your ‘S’ corporation you may want to consider a second opinion. I’m a firm believer in “if it ain’t broke…don’t fix it”. I’ve had my ‘S’ corporation since 1998 and my CPA has never mentioned anything about changing it. I’ll question him this year at tax time.

Same thing happens to me a couple of times a month. I’ll find a stray quarter or two lying in the bottom of the cabinet. I’ve checked it out by buying a few washes with quarters and getting refunds for 5’s and 10’s. I can’t seem to make it duplicate the dropped quarter. I’ve never had a...

I didn’t have a problem with the pressure switch (back up light) on the exit side of the treadle. My problem was the one in the center of the treadle upon which the car sits for the duration of the wash. Sometimes they would take a long time to open and sometimes they would just stay closed...

We don’t have much gravel here in Florida. Just sand…lots and lots of sand. I will every now and then get a large rock under the paddle which causes a malfunction. I have the mercury switch adjusted that if the paddle only moves about 1/3 of the way down it will close the circuit and allow...

I got rid of the pressure switch in my treadle a number of years back. It got to where I could only get 6 months of service out of one before they would stick in the closed position thus shutting down the auto. I think the brand was Recora, but I’m not sure. I didn’t bother to try another...

I gave up on signs a while back…my customers don’t read.

I went in this morning right at sunrise and the weep mizer display showed 20 degrees…nothing frozen…nothing broken. I’ll load up on windshield washer fluid to prepare for the teens this weekend. Thanks for your help.

I currently weep my guns and blow down the brushes with air on freezing nights. This has worked down to 25 degrees. My question is what about the tire cleaner and presoak lines? It is supposed to get down to the teens this weekend. I’m considering purging the tire cleaner and presoak lines...

Kool Wash Have you considered switching to tokens? I had a stringing problem and solved it by eliminating the quarters and dispensing tokens through the changers. I haven’t had a single token stolen in 10 years.

Here in Santa Rosa County, Fl. we pay 6% state and .5% county tax on vending items, Fragramatics cycles and wax time in the SS. We also have to pay on the entire auto wash that contains a wax cycle. Washing and rinsing are tax free.

I use a vacuum truck service which solicited my pit cleaning business. They have an hourly charge and a charge for each gallon of sludge. Last bill was $1,126 for 5.5 hours and 1,086 gallons. This guy has a monopoly on this area. All of his competition has gotten out of the business because...

You?ve got more patience than me. I get a few each year that are invited never to come back. I figure that if the jerk doesn?t know the difference between right and wrong by the time he becomes an adult, there is no hope for them.

Here we have had rain 16 out of the last 21 days. Today was only partly cloudy...maybe it's a start.

I had a lady call today that wanted a refund on the $4 wash (my cheapest) she bought. She claimed that the auto did no do as good a job as it did LAST YEAR. She washes her car once or twice a year and expects a touchless automatic to detail her car. I told her to use the SS next time and...

What ever happened as a result of this thread? Was it the soap that was extra thin or was it the imagination of the complaining operators?