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air shammie, tire brush, triple foam conditioner, which to add first?

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Killer_Rush

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I am currently 45 days into owning my first Carwash. Right now it only has the foam brush and nozzle for high and low pressure. I have been going through and fixing problems and am ready to add to the bays. Which would be “best” to go with first? Adding in the Air Shammies, or adding in the separate tire brush and cleaner, or adding in a triple foam conditioner?



Thanks, my first post.
 
I’d definitely go with air shammie. After the equipment purchase and installation cost you are almost at 100% pure profit except for electricity. Your motorcycle customers will LOVE it.
I’ve never gotten excited about triple foam. The appearance of most of the applications just don’t impress me. The system Waxman is buying is the only one that is appealing to
Me.
 
I went triple foam conditioner first because it was much cheaper than air shammees. I ran triple foam to all of my bays for like half of what an Air Shammee cost in one bay. I did DIY it though, I didn't buy a system.
 
I installed triple foam when I built my wash 20 years ago. at the time I wanted something that was highly appealing to the customers and different from what my competitors had so that was my reasoning for triple foam. Next was air dryers and then recently I did the tire brush. I think Eric is right and the air dryers are the most profitable to operate, but I'm not sure about the cost. My triple foam system that I am installing soon to replace my original one is $6000. That's not too bad considering the original one I installed 20 years ago was only about $1500 less. I bought my blowers used so they were a no-brainer.
 
I've often wondered about changing "pre soak" to "Foam Bath" or something like that and putting through the trifoam gun - we all know what pre-soak is, but general wash users presumably don't. if you can get someone to try it and hit with high pressure after a bit of dwell time, it's noticeably effective presuming you use a decent PS product
 
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aussiewash said:
I've often wondered about changing "pre soak" to "Foam Bath" or something like that and putting through the trifoam gun - we all know what pre-soak is, but general wash users presumably don't. if you can get someone to try it and hit with high pressure after a bit of dwell time, it's noticeably effective presuming you use a decent PPs product
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I have one of Waxman’s old tri-foam guns. I’m going to test how well i can get the presoak, tire cleaner and bug-off to foam out of the gun. I think we’ve all seen videos of “snow foam” that the YouTube detailers like to use. If I can get close to a similar effect I’ll put it online for the rest of the summer/fall. I don’t like the idea of having to weep another hose over winter so I will likely switch back to all applications from the regular gun for the winter.
I’ll try to hook that up today and post a video
 
OurTown said:
Maybe it just needs to be ran more rich. It could also be that the chemical doesn't have much foaming additive.
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Sorry, I meant going up a tip in the hydrominder not a larger tip on the gun. I can’t complain, I’m getting the guns and hoses in a trade.
 
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