Equipment Room Dream

[wyatt]

Call me crazy but I am building an 8 bay self serve wash.

It has gotten to the point with the architect that we need to involve the plumbers and design the inside of the equipment room. The city requires everything be drawn up before the building can be approved.

Below is my 1st draft so take it easy on me... What is good and what could be done better? Examples with pictures would make my day.

I'll also attach a site layout and some eye candy of the exterior renderings.

 

[washnshine]

At first blush, I see two bays are drive in, back out - I’m not a huge fan of that layout. I also see one of your bays is uncovered. I’d cover that last bay that is open and that would allow too to get rid of one of your back out bays. Not sure if you have room for the 8th bay on the end, but that would let you get rid of both back out bays. If you don’t have room, I’d go with 7 standard drive through, covered bays.

 

[PEI]

Your architect has designed a very attractive building, but unless this is being built in a tropical location there's not enough thought about controlling freeze. The best solution is a heated and insulated trough. That may be hard to make work with this design. It would need to be routed all the way up at the top of the A to not interfere with the supports. Your trough will need to be painted to match the rest of the roof and will need to have panels on the bottom to access it. This design will also eliminate the ability to use a center boom which will lead to additional time needed untangling hoses.

I would stick with the uncovered Bay since it creates a space for unusual sized vehicles to wash. While I am not a fan of the back out bays, it maximizes the location. Personally, I would use them as detail bays to create a different revenue stream.

In the equipment room I would place trench drains around the outside walls. This way you can easily place all the drain lines without needing to create a trip hazard. With the height of the equipment room, I would elevate all the storage tanks and place all of my storage up off the main floor.