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Strange Legends PIT FROM THE PIT Legends It’s the Pits... Along with dealing with clueless customers and having to repair vandalized equipment, on a scale of 1 to10, how bad is cleaning out the car wash pits? If you do it yourself, from the back-breaking, yuckentrenched ick, it is most likely a 10. Some have found solace in knowing you can pay others to do it … but at a cost. So, what is the best solution? Pay in terms of labor, or pay in terms of cost? Here are some stories from fellow self serve owners who share what works best for them. John Hilzendeger owns two Monroe Street Powerwash locations which include self serve and automatic bays and are located in Spokane and Hayden, Washington. The Hayden location has smaller pits requiring monthly cleanings and they use a clam shell digger for that location. “The second location in Spokane has much bigger pits, but with the grate being smaller the clam shell digger does not work as well so they use a commercial company that uses a pump/vacuum system,” said Hilzendeger. They have the commercial company come in the early spring of each year. The costs of maintaining the pits is around 1.5% of gross revenue for the self serve bays. As for the amount of time it takes, he estimates it takes roughly 30 minutes per pit. Kimberly Berg, the owner of the five-bay self serve Citrus Heights Car Wash, in Citrus Heights, California, said she hires a local pumping company which comes out once a year every November. 52 • WINTER 2021 “I have a 1500-gallon size tank and it costs me $1050. The process takes less than an hour for them to suck up the sludge and wash down my pits. Because their truck is so large, and blocks access to two wash bays and two vacuums, I schedule them to come out early in the morning, usually around 7 a.m., in November when business is slow,” Berg said. As for her advice for new owners, she suggests scheduling such services regularly as an essential maintenance item. “When I first purchased my car wash, the pits had not been emptied in a while. It was full of smelly sludge, that had backed up into the wash bays. There was so much sludge, that it required two trips and cost me double to remove! In the past, when we noticed more oil in the pits, I dropped in oil-absorbing sheets, but it's so messy to pull out the oily sheets and throw them into a trash bag. This year, I researched an easier solution that is better for the environment. It's a concentrated liquid bacterial enzyme, that is supposed to break down oil in grease traps and drain lines. It's called ‘Get Serious’ and it has 4-star reviews on Amazon. It cost me $24.98 for 1 gallon. I pour 1 cup (8 ounces) into my main pit every month, from each of our 5 wash bays. We'll see how good it works next November, but it certainly won't hurt anything!” Mike Walsh, owner of King Koin Launderette & Car n Dog Wash in Bismarck, North Dakota, has been in the business for 50 years, and said that one thing that came about from unbelievable intense competition from local gas stations no longer doing any mechanical service work and adding "100% hands off" drive thru automatics was the increase from Roto Rooter and many others offering car wash suction services. “Whereas” he added, “it was almost impossible for those services in our area back in the 70s.” “Those were the days when I personally physically cleaned out our pits,” Walsh said. “Since I was a quite a bit younger ... in retrospect ... the exercontinued ...
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