How do you clean you IBA bay?

[BobbieB]

So, working on getting and IBA and wondering how everyone washes them down. Currently I wash my bays daily. I know that's crazy, but that is something that drives me nuts.

So with the wand & boom removed, how would you wash the bay down? I thought about leaving the boom, we have enough height, but that may be a disaster with customers. Thought about a quick disconnect in the bay in a lock box, but last thing I want to do is drag a hose every day. Just curious what those with experience do?

 

[Greg Pack]

At one wash Just inside my equipment room door I have a wall-mounted hose reel with 150' of hose. Coming out of one of the pumps I have a Tee with two valves so that I can come the bay off and divert the water to the reel. I use this setup at least weekly, mainly to do a quick wash down of the vacuum area. It takes fifteen minutes to do the area around four vacuums and the entire area just seems so much cleaner than just blowing.

At another wash I have a hose reel on wheels and on one centrally located bay up high I have a high pressure quick disconnect. I figured It would be problematic with leaks and possibly even a theft but it has worked fine for a couple of years.

On both setups I just swipe my attendant card and it will run 15 minutes, you could wire in a manual override easily if you like.

 

[Eric H]

I had one site set up similar to Greg’s, but I had it run off of a spare pump. It made it easy to wash down without shutting down one of the SS bays.
What IBA do you have? I’ve used the remote for my Razor to turn the inverted L around so it faces the wall and then I use the remote to mover the bridge around the bay. It good for daily/weekly cleaning. I still use a long hose from a SS bay when I scrub the wall and machine covers. I try to do my deep cleaning on rainy days

 

[BobbieB]

I do not have anything installed yet but looking at a PDQ.