Recent content by readydave8

Thank you for your informative answer. I beleive the reclaim systems I worked with cost $25-$40K--not sure because that wasn't my department, I was the guy in the pump room with an angry owner. What's spargers?

not mine a car wash I worked on a few years ago when I was service tech for a cw supply and service company. I think I remembered #'s wrong, must have been 3 @ 1500 gallon tanks, baffle was open in middle for oil to float and sediment to sink the car wash is closed, in part because reclaim...

yes I like ozone too Apparently much smaller than 5 microns. I guarantee that water will go thru a 5 micron bag or filter and look dirty, put in a clear bottle and let set for a week and find clearer water and accumulation on bottom. This I know from personal observation, I'm not a chemist...

Yes I agree that recirculating the water to introduce oxygen can keep the smell down, although I've seen it done more with ozone. But in Georgia this means that the water is not sitting still long enough for the red clay to settle out. I can make water look clean and smell bad or look dirty...

Reclaim Industry Not Responding I found it interesting that manufacturers and venders of reclaim systems are not posting to this thread defending their systems. So is the consensus that water reclaim is a good thing as long as one doesn't try to wash cars with the water?

Mine was about 10% when revenue was higher, gross came down drastically in the last 3 years, lite bill stayed about the same due to poco price increase and like I said lighting. So now its probably around 17%.

Nobody? I am in business to make money not friends (although it's good when I do make friends). I have always charged as much or more than my near competetion. However its hard for me to believe that "nobody" complained about price increases as stated in previous posts. Someone will always...

Good point, here it's close to 10cents/kwh, includes all taxes & fees. I think my secret is not washing many cars?

My 4/bay in NE Georgia runs about that, I like it well-lit and presume that's a lot of it.

Around here probably stayed the same, got to drive the kids to school and run to the store for smokes.

If you replaced rotary switch make sure all jumpers if present in other bays are installed.

check your rotary switch if that's what you have at coin meter, if you don't know how to check or if its keypad swap out with working bay.

That cutting time thing always seemed sneaky to me, I'd rather raise my price per minute, either way if you have competition nearby you're gonna make some of your customers mad, I try to stress reliable equipment and good chemicals, clean and neat lot, try for the customers willing to pay more...

80% reclaim I'm in NE Georgia and can't say that I've seen a reclaim system work on hand bays that really worked. 80% is what we were promised, the foul 20% more than overcame the theoretically clean 80%. One company mentioned sold a system to a then-customer, customer did every tweak and...

A few years ago I tried the .25 startup idea, it seemed to increase volume at first but then taper off back to where I had been. It made some customers mad when timer stopped after 1 minute, their perception was that I was selling enough time to wash their car, not that I was selling time at a...