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Our wash is in West Michigan. June was VERY rainy but July has been very dry and HOT!

This banner came from bannersonthecheap.com. It has held up very well for 7 months now (through a very harsh Michigan winter)

Bannersonthecheap.com. We have used them a couple times now. They have an easy design tool and have SUPER reasonable prices and VERY fast shipping. The banners are high quality. They saved us hundreds of dollars.

Thank you all for your responses. I will let you know what we decide on and how it works for us.

So there are many threads on lighting and if you want to discuss it further that would probably be the best place to do it (so others can be helped by it too). My two cents on lighting is to buy from amazon. We have been very happy with the Hyperikon led wall packs that we bought on amazon...

I know there are plenty of you on the forum that have experience with coin counting scales. I’m getting sick of the hand counting. And since most of our quarters are recycled there is no need to wrap that many. Wondering what makes and models have worked well for you?

So I designed the stickers in Microsoft Word. I did not come up with the wordage but based it on other owners who were very helpful to me as we started. I simply made the design in Word and sent the pdf file to the sign company. They printed it on a vinyl sticker. Works pretty well. I am...

The attached pdf file is what I gave to the sign company to have them make 4”x3” vinyl stickers to attach to our meter boxes. They turned out really nice. I might get one complaint every other month.

We scrapped out an old Raypak 330k btu boiler about a year ago. We took it apart and took the asbestos (?) panels out. We took it apart as much as possible and separated the copper and brass that we could. Mostly it went as is because we didn't see the benefit of spending the time to separate...

We found 30 gallon trash cans at home depot. They have small wheels almost like rollerblade wheels. They seem to work pretty well. Time will tell. I think they are Brute.

I am most definitely interested in this!! Anyone out there have experience with it yet? Sounds like Cryptopay and Worldpay are listening and reacting to the market. We've been very happy with Cryptopay but gift cards/loyalty cards would help a lot since we are unable to offer memberships at...

Hi Slash, I’ll PM the quote so you can get the specifics.

Hi slash, our metal looked the same way before the rehab (beat up in many places.) We decided to replace it all. We went to lowes, but home depot does the same thing. $624 replaced the metal on the whole building and we did the tear out and install ourselves. Both home depot and lowes will...

These are the before and after of our rehabbed wash. It was down for 7 years before we purchased it. Many thanks to the contributors to this forum!

We went with Hyperikon 60w LED wallpacks 5000k and 5000 lumens. We have had them installed for about 9 months and are very happy with them. We ordered them on Amazon and got the free shipping with Amazon Prime. It helps that the walls are white with paint and FRP panels because the light...

Not really, I said that because it worked well for us. We started with a brown, drab cinder block, non-functioning car wash. Ours had been out of commission for 7 years. We decided to paint it bright white with bright white frp panels in the bays. We wanted people to notice it again. They...

I just finished a very similar project. Paint the building white and put a small sign on the building itself. This is not very costly and customers will see that changes are happening. Do this after you make sure all the equipment is working like it should. The roadsign will be expensive...

We are in West Michigan. Are prices are $2.00 for 3:30 or cc $3 for 5:24. 27 sec/quarter either way. Our closest competition is the same price but does not offer cc.

I came to this business from a previous career as a police officer. In the short time that I have been a car wash owner we have noticed a couple things happening in the bays that concerned us. One was clear prostitution, another was a man urinating in the bay and yet another was a trash dumper...

For what it's worth Earl we originally thought about good, better, best but thought more about it and went with more superlative wording: Regular, Ultra and Premium. The font sizes and colors draw the eyes to the higher priced and more feature rich options. I also would be interested to hear...