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Didn't want to pay the money for an automatic drain and when I looked around I had what I needed. Dema 453S and a hardwired light timer. Flawless thuss far. AJ

GREAT TOOL!!! Thanks all for the info and the heads up. Really pleased so far. Wear safety glasses when working on carpet. You can vac for an hour and still throw sand in your face when you crank the little bugger up. It is worth its weight in gold....or carwash tokens(just as good). AJ

If I see cans I snag'em. I don't make a huge attempt to get them all...some are nasty (spitters). I don't let people dive for them for two reasons: 1. They take the cap off bottles...pour them out on the lot (clean cars then drive through the pop). 2. They throw the damn bottle caps on the...

Thumbs up to Eric H on ordering without decals...They are expensive and I have found places local that can make decals with my logo on them for a tenth of the price. AJ

Towels: Towels by Dr. Joe www.towelsbydoctorjoe.com Windows, dash, and wheel treatment: All from Car Brite Products www.carbrite.com Kleenrite is good but these are a couple other choices...I always try and price two or three and then make my choice. AJ

J.E. Adams is the way to go if you ask me. I have 5 of them and they have some age on them. Still look good and function properly. It was money well spent with NO regrets. AJ

I did notice a difference...Fastenal or Farmtek nylon rivets seem to be less brittle. I got the last 1000 from farmtek. At the time their price was good and that is where I bought my sheets of plastic. I went with plastic sheets instead of FRP....they are MUCH easier to clean but the shrink...

That is to say no tax specifically collected from the customer...rather backed out of the total at the end of the month?

+1 on nylon rivets +1 on getting them from Fastenal...or Farmtek Leave a little room in between sheets for expansion as well. Your h-trim will cover this.

Just curious how many of you out there pay sales tax on your soap and sales tax on a wash. Basically your inputs and the resulting wash are double taxed. I know here in Iowa we are, and car dealers are not. Many have an automatic wash on site, and yet are not held to the same rules. It comes...

I went to my best and oldest HVAC customer...they made a trough for me. It wasn't that expensive and it was EXACTLY how I wanted it. Another piece of advice (take it or leave it)...pain that sucker black when you are done. It will draw a ton of heat in from the sun. In the winter it melts off...

I would have tried it too!!! If you would have made it work I am sure there is good $$$ to be made. People pay big money for those rigs and will pay to take care of them. Now you know. Maybe you are like me and you will wake up in the middle of the night and think of a way to do it better...

Got this one last week...escalade, deaf person, relay service all included.

When I see flagrant violations of my rules and/or disrespect shown towards my small but nice (IMO) carwash, I speak up. But I do so with the utmost in diplomacy and tact, because, like you, I am picking up the change by the vacs...

I like the "idea" door operators...but I worry about the same thing, maintenance. On the other hand...at night I lock my doors down. I don't want anybody trying to open a door that could be frozen to the ground. Or tearing a rotator cuff lifting a door that won't move. And then there is just...

I have no problem asking someone to stop doing something disruptive, damaging, or against the rules...they may not like it but they almost always get what I am saying. People do not like being told what to do...especially since I am somewhat young....they HATE being made to feel stupid (truth be...

Ditto...drop in a quarter or two and tell them its to cover the time they spent walking all the way up. I feel better, strength in numbers and what not.

How many times have you had this happen? Customer puts $$ in vac...vac turns on...they fail to see the giant neon arrow pointing to the hose they should use and pick up the wrong one (dual side vac). Sooo they stomp up to the front of the wash and tell me my vac "ripped them off". I can almost...

I have doors on both ends of everything but truck bays...they will get some too. I wouldn't do it any other way. I took it one more step and had my ceiling spray foamed (huge difference in therms used). I used to lay pink insulation board on the floors and it worked fine but it was a pain to...

Normaly open solenoid on weep and I installed a box to cut my raypak from incoming power (kind of like what you could put on your house if you wanted to power the whole thing during a power outage with a generator). I have a pig tail on that box and plug it into my honda generator. It will run...