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I have not been for 4 years. I have been to the ICA convention only 5 times since 1981. Last I went I was very disappointed in the info seminars and round tables for SS. The ones we had back in the 90's were so much more informative and beneficial to me and have gone down hill since. We would...

On my FB there is a 1.5 second delay and the fb is about mid-bay on the coin meter side. The rx is on the other side of the bay and I have a 3 second delay on it since the customer has to walk around the car to get to the gun. I plan to keep the delays as they are for the summer unless I see a...

Follow-up, This past winter I used ~85 gallons of wwf between 2 wash locations on 2 selections in each bay. That is about $145 for the winter. We had many long cold spells with equally the same amount of days which dipped into the low 20's but got up over freezing on a daily basis, so there was...

I have 2 locations. My cc sales at the slowest location is ~25%-27% of sales and the other is ~36%-38% of sales. I pay 8.05% in sales tax.

I have had a customer in the SS bay put her hand within 2" of nozzle and did some damage. I have washed my hands in front of the wand without damage unless I was careless. On an automatic, unless they are turbo nozzles, the spray would not be close enough to do skin damage. It would be the...

I have used 9115 over 4 years and works well for me. You might go to KOmfg.com and find a distributer for the soap (do not buy from manufacturer- many MFG charge more than a distributer). My cost is about half w/ shipping. If it works well and you can be sure costs are not too high, I would...

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For my weep, I use a flow controller (similar to what we used to put in the shower heads decades ago to save water) which looks like a 3/8 coupler with a rubber disk inside. The disk has a very small hole which regulates the flow. The ones I use allows approx. .19 gpm thru the unit. It is...

I am spending 5k a year for FULL coverage insurance. Two locations, a vehicle, 11 bays w/one IBA and been doing carwashing for 33 years. Bought my washes 5 years ago. I recently had a slip/fall on some ice. Customer was sent to get an MRI-$2000 plus doctor fees. My insurance is taking car of...

ZEP now handles the blue Coral line for carwashing. They bought the carwash line of products from Ecolab last summer.

Heartman insurance 800-349-3834 I talked to them when I bought my first 2 washes.

I've used Filmtec and currently use one from GE. When mine get fouled I acid/alk clean them until I am unable to maintain less than 25ppm. I clean them about every other year. I have a 50% recovery rate at approx. 150psi and a temperature around 75 degrees. There are membranes for cold water...

I see many good comments about cryptopay here but I sure remember reading a lot of comments last year that were not too favorable. Might do a search of the forum to check it out.

There are many good products out there and the cost of the drum or bucket will vary as well as the number of cars each container can service. I use products from Blue Coral/ZEP and Auto Shine from KO Mfg. There are a few suggestions on how to figure your cost of chemical you may try. I...

I want to see this hunk of ice that made this dent. How big is this dent? How far did the ice fall? My IBA gets icicles but they are only a few feet above the car and none are big enough to have any concerns to damage a vehicle. Were there other large lances of frozen water you were able too...

I plow my own snow. Use a snow blower around the building and vac islands. From there I use calcium chloride and sprinkle in the possible slick areas where overspray and dripoff happens. I apply at least 2x a day as needed. Ice chunks in the bay from cars gets put in the pit. this is a...

have used the SMC and US Paraplate for decades. Both have worked well. SMC,s are throwaways when bad. After years of use the brass slowly wears out. US Paraplate last much longer, easily rebuildable.

I installed RX last November and did keep my cc. I do not have any percentages but still sell noticeably enough cc. I have some customers who have commented that they use both products. My menu board states to follow the listed order of use for the best results which has RX listed and cc to...

No I have blue curly hose. A little pain in the rear--they tend to not swivel at the gun so they knot up a bit. I even placed another swivel to no avail. I have found wwf at $1.69pg at a local grocery store. I looked into buying bulk barrels but I don't have enough room and the price was not...