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Weather closing

Right now we keep the self-serves open 24/7/365. Our IBA is 15 years old with unreliable doors, so I close at 5pm and re-open the bay at 8am when it's below freezing. Once I have my new equipment installed, the IBA will be open 24/7/365 as well.
 
When it dips into single digits and below we usually close. Our IBA doors sometimes freeze in the open position in those temps, and we have problems with our SS weep not keeping up if there is any kind of wind chill in addition to those temps.
 
I have my IBAs set to shutdown automatically at -10F. I have Airlift vinyl doors and floor heat. I do NOT have any supplemental heat or heated rails etc.
Self Serve bays stay open 24/7. I've only shutdown overnight a handful of times when the temp was predicted to drop to -30.
I've had some of my best days when the temp didn't get over 15F!
 
ha ha, Southern wash here. No floor heat. We close the autos when they predict a hard freeze. Not a big deal as most cold spells are just a day or two and it's slow then anyway. I don't see much business when its in the 30s. Most people just wait a couple of days for it to warm up, the average winter day high is around 50.
 
In recent years we only close when it is blizzard non travel conditions ... when my manpower (employees) become less available then I tend to be closed much more often ... in our area too much ice forming during a severe cold spell on the overhead airlift alaskan polycarbonate doors can be problematic!

We sometimes dread super sloppy weather immediately followed by a horrific below 0° F long lasting cold spell!
 
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