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Kingwood Texas (30 minutes north east of Houston) $2.50 for 4 min bays $2.00 for 4 min vacuums we keep our vacuums clean and strong, they get a lot of use....

I built "trays" out of marine plywood that fit below the grate in my bays, they are 4" deep (a 2x4 around the perimeter) with a 6 inch drain in the middle with a screen and 3" lip (a drain from Lowes). I painted them to help preserve them and added a rubber strip around the periphery to keep...

I think SS is a niche market. Many don't want to put their car thru a tunnel. They want to wash it themselves or have someone hand wash it. I have a 5 bay SS and I can walk to three tunnels. One is a new Quick Quack. I bought my SS 4 years ago, it was run down, We now have a nice clean...

thanks for your comments I agree about touting our benefits. This benefit is a true one ..... Our detail shop stays busy paint correcting cars that got scratched up going thru a tunnel. I don’t see them as competition for two reasons #1 our only true competition is ourselves #2 tunnels and...

I would like it all... Smell, foam and of course clean well So far JBS fonic wash sounds like the best overall ???

I agree about pricing better before cheaper our vacuums get $2.00 for 4 minutes.. we clean them well weekly and strong new motors.... Bays get $2.50 for 4 minutes, again bays cleaned well daily, great products, tons of soap etc... (When I bought the car wash 3 years ago, $1.25/ bay 4 minutes and...

I try to look at my investments as simply as I can. If the owner owns the car wash outright and takes home 75K/year. Assuming everything stays the same, always a big assumption..... you adding having to service the 1.4M or 1.3M capital investment alone would eat up your 75K/year profit...….

Hi, I am pleased with all of my other products, customers can see and smell the products. I need a good high pressure soap that foams up and smells. Any suggestions, thanks, Ed :)

Thank you for your service :) I was looking for a job for a friend of mine who is a great detailer. I didn't mean to buy the car wash !!! I am so glad I did :) I have owned it 3 years, It was very rough. I spent a lot of time redoing and fixing everything. You will meet nice customers and...

I have a 5 bay SS, 7 vacs, detail shop there and a store with our detail products. I can walk to four tunnel car washes from my SS !!!! Quick Quack just came in 1 mile from me, I see very few cars there ….. I have owned this car wash 3 years and I TOTALLY agree, SS customers and tunnel customers...

I have traps like everyone else, then I built these for my bays a few months ago... The drain in the center is 1/2 inch lower than the depth of this shallow trap The sand flows into the shallow trap and the water exits thru the center drain every two weeks we pull the grate up and clean the...

I had the same dilemma a year ago...I looked into the several major blowers available. My impression is Air Shammees are built ok, but Blasto-dry are built better for the same cost. I installed 5 Blasto-drys in my 5 self serve bays about 6 months ago, their use is increasing. I am glad I put...

Honestly, I bought an old, poorly maintained SS and I have replaced or rebuilt everything, this has happened many times to me and it’s always the backflow preventers. I guess the weeping is from this not your weep system for freezing :)

5 self serve bays $2.50 4min SS $2 4min vac no tunnel, but a busy detail shop in the back 1/2 of our facility we have free air and free wiper fluid in front of the SS bays (best marketing I have ever done) !!!! Just added Blast-O-Drys in all 5 bays last week, people love them and use them Also...

I agree, it's bay 2 check valve You can usually just open it and clean it and reassemble it (maybe even stretch out the spring in it a little) it takes just a little something to get caught there and keep it from sealing :)