How to remodel mechanical room for cleaner operation

[jlashe]

Hello,

I was wondering if anyone knew of instruction guides or something of the sort that would help me remodel my mechanical rooms to be cleaner and less cluttered. I have a few smaller self service car washes that are just jam packed in the mechanical rooms. I believe many of the items are no longer functional, but I was hoping to find some sort of instruction on how to bring things up to a newer standard. None of the owners that I bought from seemingly knew much about changing anything inside the mechanical rooms, so I am in a similar boat. Thanks for any help or recommendations!

 

[PEI]

Pictures of the equipment room would help. Every layout is a little different based on shape and location in relation to bays

 

[Axxlrod]

There is no instruction manual for this business. It's a very "figure it out for yourself" type of business.

 

[Randy]

Hello,

I was wondering if anyone knew of instruction guides or something of the sort that would help me remodel my mechanical rooms to be cleaner and less cluttered. I have a few smaller self service car washes that are just jam packed in the mechanical rooms. I believe many of the items are no longer functional, but I was hoping to find some sort of instruction on how to bring things up to a newer standard. None of the owners that I bought from seemingly knew much about changing anything inside the mechanical rooms, so I am in a similar boat. Thanks for any help or recommendations!

A friend of mine got pissed at his maintenance/clean up guy for collecting everything that he thought was valuable. So when the maintenance/clean up guy went on vacation for 3 weeks. The owner pushed the dumpster up to the back door and loaded it up. He did that 3 times. He also fixed the lighting by installing 6 8' LED lights, its like an operating room now. His maintenance/clean up guy was pissed when he came back to a organized empty equipment room, he lost all of his treasures and junk parts that he'd been saving.

 

[liftheavy]

show us picture and we'll give you recommendation... probably.

 

[Waxman]

I've seen lots of junk accumulate in equipment rooms. The car wash business tends to attract all kinds of extra stuff that people leave behind either by accident or on purpose. I'd say the first step is to develop a plan to keep items for a very limited amount of time and then toss them or recycle them.

I like to keep things neat and tidy but I still wind up accumulating a bunch of junk. I go through once a year and really clean it out. Employees will save everything from McDonald's happy meal toys to license plates to trim parts that fly off of cars in the automatic wash. Im persistent. I want it clean and I tend to keep it that way.

 

[Earl Weiss]

. He also fixed the lighting by installing 6 8' LED lights, its like an operating room now.

Got these and luv them For indoor use. (You don't have to buy a 10 pack) Last a few years and then easy to sswap out. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08QTR23Y...=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9kZXRhaWxfdGhlbWF0aWM&th=1

 

[Rfreeman]

I've tore out and replaced 3 of the 5 washes I've owned and done a complete remodel of the equipment room. From my experience the older stuff was very compartmentalized i.e. a small separate stand for TC and one for FB. A separate tank for rinse, hp soap, wax. Then separate stands for the motors and pumps.

Today's stands are more compact and most functions are all on the stand providing one stand for all functions. I switched all my stands to JC only bc that is what I learned on. It's a big unit and I modified one of them to fit the equipment room but in each case I noticed a new stand helped reduce the clutter tremendously