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SuperWash Remodel
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Overachiever
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OurTown
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We had two narrow Super Wash auto bays. We looked and couldn't find much of anything that would fit in them that was an upgrade to the fixed ovals. We looked into moving the walls but with the mono poured slab/foundation and floor heat tubing it was impractical. In the end we opted to raze them and build one large bay. (20' X 65') We also removed the flat roof on the equipment room and SS bays, raised the block walls 5', built a 6/12 pitched roof. We also did a lot of other things to the site. It was insanely expensive.
Overachiever
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To @OurTown 's point about the floor heat, I repaved the bay that I extended and put new floor heat in with the remodel but in the process that broke the floor heat to the other auto bay next to it which at the time I didn't want to fork out the money to also repave.. Just use that bay to dry pit mud now, not sure what to do with it. Might become a dog wash someday if I feel like having more hassles to deal with. FWIW the cement was 8" thick and the floor heat was on the bottom of that 8" at my wash, so now I'm sure it's more efficient...
steveclark
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Looks like a solid transformation! Love seeing these before-and-after projects — gives me ideas for my own spot. Curious how long the full remodel took start to finish? And did you run into any surprises once you started tearing things out? Seems like there always ends up being at least one unexpected headache once the work begins
MattSwaney
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My former SuperWash location was built with 6 self serves and two automatic bays, and bay 6 could be converted into a third, but it was changed to a storage bay at some point... originally the wash had two HydroSpray Classic systems, but I recently changed to some newer D&S5000 equipment to ride out a few more years until I can come up with a long term plan. My plan was to take the two bays and demolish them and rebuilt into one longer and wider bay that can accommodate the newer equipment.
OurTown
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That is what we did. How wide are your auto bays?
MattSwaney
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27' 9" L x 13' 4"
OurTown
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You have choices. Our bays were only 24' 8" X 12' 9".
MattSwaney
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Not many, but that's ok. I don't have the money for ONE... let alone TWO haha!
Ours had 4 feet built onto the back at some point, I think they went from the SuperMatic to the Hydrospray units maybe... I'm not sure.
I figure if I demo both sides and make it one big bay, that opens me up to getting something like a D&S iQ Max that can do tall and longer vehicles.
An iq max won't fit unless you raise the ceiling by 5ft and extend the bay 50ft plus widen it to 19ft.
Im pretty sure a razor will fit in your bay.
Been in your position before. Try to find a good razor on CWC. They usually are newer machines less than 6 years old from 40-80K. Finance it from ascentium or any other equipment company and you will have roughly a $1200/month payment. Have cash on hand though for install and upgrades. Once it ready to go raise your prices and the machine will pay for it self and draw in customers. This is what I did with my first remodel a lot of years ago and my only regret is I didn't do it sooner.
I wouldn't even think about putting two in unless you have the volume. If that becomes the case then thats a good problem to have and you can deal with it then. Good Luck!
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