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I'm not sure if we have foam generators. Where would they be? I'll take some pics in the morning and post. There is a cabinet with solenoids and adjustment valves for soap and air. I saw it in use today and it seems to have a descent foam. Just not as much as I like

Sounds cool! You have any pictures?

I agree about the fascia. We want to do that too. Just thought about the stone since it's almost a free upgrade. And painting is cheap. We've been keeping it pretty clean. The toilet bowl cleaner does wonders on the bay walls!

I have an ARO diaphram pump on my foam brush, running at about 60 psi. I don't feel it is pumping out enough foam and wondering if some of you can provide setting ideas or input. The foaming air supply is running at 20 psi & pump at 60 psi, I've tried to up the foaming air but it creates too...

trying to keep it fairly cheap for the time being. I like that epiplastic but I bet it is pricey. The stone is something I already have. But I don't see it used much on car washes. I have seen it used on a few mainly as an accent like on my 3rd picture. I think it would hold up pretty good...

that's a good question. How hot is the water tank set to in order to get 100 at the wand? Another question I might add, how many gallons of hot water storage do you have?

I have a few ideas pictured here (excuse bad photoshop job). The original carwash is just all concrete block covered in the bay wall plastic. We want to take that off and either paint the block or put up some stone veneer. I have pictured some options, all red, half stone with red, and all...

Yeah, I worried about it all day hoping it wasn't a bad motor. Tested the breaker and it had a dead pole, so $20 to fix that! And as Randy pointed out to me, breakers are not the proper way to switch things on and off. Its just that there is no other way to kill the 220 power to the motors...

We are having problems with a motor not starting. it was working one minute and then i turned off the breaker to fix a hose, and when turned back on the motor wouldn't start. the timer is working fine and all low pressure is fine so the signals are getting there. but rinse and high pressure...

There is a 4 bay in Bartlesville OK for $950k. It is a premium location with a quick lube attached. That real estate is prime though being a major highway with commuters to Tulsa. But I think it also has a newer conveyor type wash like 2 doors down. Not sure if that is really the same clientele...

The damaged hose I removed was probably 10 years old I'm guessing. It was the bay hose connected to the handle. The fittings inside looked pretty corroded and the material stuck in the tip was definitely metallic & corroded. but after flushing the hoses that did freeze, nothing else has come...

2biz, I had the same problem with tip clogging after some freezing in the high pressure lines. After everything thawed we had a bad bay hose and removed it. I saw the same hard black crud on the inside of the old hose fitting. It was rust/ corroded metal from the fitting. It was pretty thick...

Well that's great. But around here you wash your car at 30 degrees and the doors will freeze shut. If you can find one that hasn't shut down yet at that temp. They don't heat the floors or the rinse water. I've not found one here yet that stays open. We might try it at some point but the cost to...

I don't have floor heat. It's just too expensive to run. Most people here are very used to the washes shutting down. None are open if it's below freezing. Most washes around here are .75 to start and most people spend about $3 max per wash. Im guessing most don't have floor heat. None have bay...

Great, thanks for all the info! His plumbing trough doesn't appear to be heated. it is insulated I think though, haven't got to get all the details yet. but if its cold enough to freeze up weep water on the way out to the guns, we would just purge and shut down. I think that is what we were...

So I need to ask him why he's been using hot water I guess. He's got a raco freeze protection unit which is probably 10 years old. It has a hot and cold weep system on it. It says hot weep below 20f I think. But he turned that off and does manually now. It probably needed a part or wasn't...

Newbie here.. This wash is a very low budget wash so looking for ways ideas to lower expenses. The current owner manually controls the weep, he just turns it on with a valve when he thinks it needs it. He's not had any problems yet he says. But I imagine he wastes a lot of water since he has...

That's what Kleen rite told me to use when I called. Unless we switch to a liquid concentrate, then he said to use their Sonic Wash. Thanks!

Well huge relatively speaking, the low pressure tanks are less than 5 gallons and these big tubs take up a good 1/3rd of the space in the pump house. And I've heard some say on here that they use small tanks with hydrominders and liquid soap in 5 gallon buckets, which would take up less space...

oh gosh, having a senior moment. (and I'm not even a senior citizen) I had posted so many other threads I forgot I had even posted this question already. I went back and looked, thanks for that info.