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I checked my control room camera to find my floor covered in blue foam! My wax hydrominder failed and overflowed the tank. This went on for about an hour before I was able to get the water shutoff, luckily it’s been raining and I did not have any customers! The mystery to this is somehow, during...

I have a Hydrominder 506 on my soap tank. I've replaced the foot valve twice in the last two months, and both times I have walked into my soap chemical tank overflowing with water. I have heard of people adding an anti-siphon hole in the outlet tube on the hydrominder in case the foot valve...

I know that this topic has been brought up quite often on here and I've read through the majority of threads. Monex is running some good June promos and I'm thinking about pulling the trigger, I wanted to see if anyone could comment on some experience with them!

I'm trying to come up with a way to improve low-pressure delivery to the wand. Right now my furthest bay from the control room takes about 20 seconds to deliver. Does anyone have any suggestions or tricks to improve this? I was thinking about "pulsing" the motor for a few seconds with a circuit...

Hello all, is there anyone on here who has built their own triple foam setup? Do you have any pros, cons, or advice? Thinking about working on this for a winter project. I will likely move my presoak and tire over to the foam wand as well.

Are there any requirements stating certain signs need to be displayed in a car wash bay, whether regulated by Insurance or the Clean Water Act, etc? I know the obvious first struggle is the customer has to actually pay enough attention to read the signs, but also, I want to have something to...

I've given up on fixing our old Standard Change Maker. Does anyone have recommendations for a new unit? Will be an in-wall rear load.

I’m having a terrible time with check valves, I have had two stick and blow low pressure lines this week. The checks are at the boom in the bay where low pressure ties into my high pressure. The check valves are Deltrol CMMQ20B. Is this the wrong style check to use...

I spent the past snowy Saturday evening crunching numbers trying to develop a cost-per-minute of use estimate. 5 Bay Self Service Car Wash 2HP Single Phase Motors on Cat310 Pump Here's what I calculated below: For Electricity Cost: 230V x 12 Amps = 2530 Watts 2530/1000= 2.53 Kilowatts/Hour...

Between 5 self-serve bays, vendors, dispensers, doors, and vacuums I have a whole mess of keys. Does anyone have a good solution for organizing all their keys?

My wife and I are considering setting up a Facebook page for our car wash. We both see some positives and some negatives with it. I wanted to ask and see what everyone's experience has been, is it a good form of marketing?

I'm running 506 Hydrominders on every chemical. The soap and wax tanks are slowly leaking down and they are having to re-prime every time it kicks on. Surely it's not a foot valve already? The units are only a few months old. I finally gave up fighting air in the chemical line issues on my low...

My soap and wax lines feed into a tee right after the y-strainer exiting a gravity tank on my pump stand. I have a 1/2" line run from the tee to the inlet on each pump (Cat 310). I have to choke the line exiting the tank right now to get a good suction on the soap/wax. Would I get better suction...

I’m working on switching my 430s over to 310s. This is the first one I’ve plumbed up, do you see any issues in dumping the unloader back into the manifold?

Early on in our car wash rebuild, I had planned on utilizing an existing new 60-gallon electric water heater to heat the soap/wax supply tank water. I discovered that this would not work, the soap and wax feed from a 1/4" line that tees into the main 1/2" rinse supply line to the pumps. The...

Can someone explain to me on how this system operates and what I need to do for normal operation?

I’m finishing up renovations on our new car wash. I’m trying to get the proper ratio of HP Soap and Wax. Right now I went by what is shown on Kleen Rite for tip sizes. While I can see some soap it just doesn’t seem like much. If I was a customer I would definitely want to have more soap. Also, I...

Is anyone using Galvanized roofing metal in their bays? I was thinking of using this overhead in our bays to cover up exposed trusses.

Hello All, My wife and I just recently purchased a car wash that had been in her family for quite some time. Unfortunately the previous owner passed away a few years ago and the wash has set vacant since, leading into some needed remodeling. We're about a month and a half into the remodel and...

Hello all, Back with another question! The existing plumbing at our car wash had a high pressure (soap, wax, rinse) and a low pressure (tire shine, pre-soak) line running out to the boom. At this point it tee'd in and went down to the wand. Could I not eliminate this and tee into the high...