These aren't before / afters yet. The "clean" ones just weren't used this year. We had a pretty dry winter this season. Otherwise I'd be cleaning all of them.
I'll get some time lapse video of me cleaning them if I get the gig. They have to get a couple more bids, but if mine is accepted it'll probably happen next week or the week after.
I bid them at $475 each. Usually big equipment like this I charge by the hour ($175/hr) but with government contracts you have to give a price per piece. The guys I talked with said it usually takes them 1.5 hours or so to clean. My initial guess was 2 hours before they told me 1.5. Told them I was going to quote 2.5 hours and added in the credit card charge and driving outside my area to get them done. Total bill will be $1900, and it'll probably be less than that when it's all said and done. Probably knock out each one in 30-45 minutes since I have the equipment to do so, unlike military wash bays that only use water.
Cnasty wrote: ↑Fri May 13, 2022 12:58 pm
Go market it.
Show these rookies how it’s done old man!
We have a Facebook group called fleetwashing for beginners that I'm one of the admins on. You get a lot of these guys with these home Depot machines thinking they're going to be able to wash a truck and seven or eight minutes like I can and then they realize it takes them 30 minutes with a two gallon a minute machine
Cnasty wrote: ↑Fri May 13, 2022 1:17 pm
I'm an Ace Hardware guy myself.
It's perfect for home owners. But not for a business. The faster you can work the more an hour you make. I shoot for $125/hr. A couple jobs I make $250/hr and one I make about $90/hr (which "loses" me money)