Car washes are: manual, automatic. Automatic car washes are divided into: tunnel and portal. We have the most common car washes so far - manual. They occupy 80% of the volume of all car washes.
Each manual car wash consists of several washing blocks or posts. Usually there are two or three. Four posts will now only be idle without work.
Each post allows up to 50 cars per day. Now this figure has decreased significantly.
Statistics say that in pre-crisis times, up to 60% of motorists used car wash services regularly (namely: once a week). This figure for pre-crisis times looks a little too high, but today it needs to be halved.
The washing process of the machine is divided into two categories: full or complex cleaning and body washing.
A very limited number of consumers order a full cleaning of the car (only if something serious happened), basically, everything is limited to washing the car body.
Figures of manual car wash
A conventional (average) car wash, designed for four washing posts, costs from 30 to 40 thousand dollars, excluding land rental fees.
With an average load of 20 cars per day per post (80 cars per day), such a project pays off in only 6 years.
You can build the entire complex in three months.
Figures of an automatic (portal) car wash
Machines with the same load (80 cars per day) will cost already 120 thousand dollars, also without taking into account the lease of land.
A car wash will pay off in four years.
You can build the whole complex in two months.
Auto and hand wash areas
The square of one washing station for manual washing is from 35 to 50 square meters of land (depending on the type of equipment).
A change house and a mini-warehouse for household chemicals of a manual car wash will occupy 20 square meters of land.
The exit corridor and parking for six cars for a manual car wash occupy 150 square meters of land.
A mini-washing machine for three parking spaces occupies a total of 200 meters of land.
Equipment AED
The most important unit of equipment for a car wash is the High Pressure Apparatus, or abbreviated as AED. Types of AEDs:
stationary (serving all your posts at once),
mobile (individual) that serve each - its own specific post.
By setting up a stationary AED, you will save the area of leased land. Having delivered a mobile air defense system, you will have to expand the boxes so that the employee can find a place in them.
However, space savings often go sideways. If the general AED breaks, then work stops at all posts at once. This is a good illustration of the saying that you should not put all your eggs in one basket.
In terms of cost, it is worth noting that the price of a stationary AED designed for four units is absolutely identical to the sum of four mobile AEDs.
All existing players in this market segment tend to equip their sinks with manual AVD.
Firms, brands of existing equipment
Market players prefer to buy equipment from German companies: Kranzle, Karcher and Ehrle. AED with a pressure of up to 180 bar, as well as a water flow rate of up to 700 l / h, costs about 2 thousand dollars.
For a high-quality washing, it is enough to purchase a device of 150 bar, however, in case of intensive loading (many customers), it will work to the limit of its capabilities and will fail almost after the warranty period, that is, exactly one year later.
Warning about used equipment
Unfortunately, the service life of the washers is short, they very quickly fail. Therefore, to accept the offer to purchase “good used equipment” is to let yourself be deceived by investing in scrap metal.
The equipment is so fragile that even absolutely new one has a guarantee of one year, and after that it starts to need maintenance every 3-4 months!
There is only one good news: the maintenance itself is inexpensive - one machine is “repaired" for 1, 500 rubles.
Other equipment
- 4 vacuum cleaners (according to the number of washing boxes) for both dry and wet cleaning of the cabin with a 35 liter tank, the average cost is $ 400,
- 1 dry cleaner, worth $ 800. (dry cleaning is not in frequent demand)
- 2 purge compressors (one purge for two boxes) to remove excess water flowed into the machine during the cleaning process, worth $ 400
- Water recirculation system (with storage tank) - 4 thousand dollars
- water treatment system, worth 4 thousand dollars.
- Own well worth $ 30 per meter, with 12-15 meters to be drilled.
Car wash frames
One worker is usually hired for two posts, so you will need two workers for a four-post car wash. Their salary spends 10% of the cost of the service.
Car wash services
car wash and interior cleaning with a vacuum cleaner,
washing glasses
body coating with liquid and solid wax,
dry cleaning (2000 rubles)
The average check for a car wash is 1600 rubles.
Automatic (portal) car washes
We must say right away that they did not take root in Russia and the CIS countries. Automatic gantry washers are ideal for Europe. Why? The fact is that in Europe the roads are very clean, so the cars are not so polluted as ours. Our car. Passing along our roads, comes out of the automatic washing - banal - unwashed! Uncleaned in hard-to-reach places dirt, muddy glass and traces of dirty stains on the body - this is how our car comes out of an automatic car wash!
Seasonality of the car wash business
Unfortunately, the business idea is clearly seasonal in nature, with the first season being summer. Therefore, it is strictly not recommended to open a business in car washes in the summer, the demand for washing a car for money falls by 50% ...
Now it's up to you: open a car wash now or wait until better times.
Nazarenko Elena
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08/18/2019