One of the reasons I started the poll about acceptance of waterless and rinseless washes was the thread about using a van, truck or trailer for mobil detailing.
If you were to use waterless or rinseless wash products, it would seem you could greatly reduce the water you would need to carry with you and either reduce or eliminate having to have a waste water reclaim system.
You might still want to carry your pressure washer for prerinsing caked on mud, but a great number of vehicles wouldn't need that procedure.
Your presentation of your process might help your customers feel comfortable with what you are doing.
Rinseless washes could be premixed and just poured into a bucket when needed. That way, the customer wouldn't be concerned with such a small amount of product being added to the wash water.
Waterless washes such as Spray & Wipe could be used from a large spray system rather than a trigger spray bottle giving the impression of a special chemical mix. (Which it is) Kind of like the lawn guys having their spray hose rather than a small pump up sprayer.
A pump up sprayer for S&W would probably work fine, but hooking up a hose distribution system from your van/truck/trailer might not be too difficult. :dunno:
Keeping your polishes, waxes/sealants in smaller containers would allow you to leave the gallon containers in your garage. Chances are, you can do several jobs with a 4 oz. bottle of most products.
Bold N Bright would let you clean and dress tires with one spray bottle. Probably would work for most wheel wells, too.
Hey, I'm no pro, but in the winter all my products are in the basement. I can do a complete wash & wax with one tote tray using S&W.
If I do a rinseless wash, I need a two compartment bucket added to my list.
If I'm doing paint polishing or cleaning, I have another tote tray with polishing supplies in it.
If you were to use waterless or rinseless wash products, it would seem you could greatly reduce the water you would need to carry with you and either reduce or eliminate having to have a waste water reclaim system.
You might still want to carry your pressure washer for prerinsing caked on mud, but a great number of vehicles wouldn't need that procedure.
Your presentation of your process might help your customers feel comfortable with what you are doing.
Rinseless washes could be premixed and just poured into a bucket when needed. That way, the customer wouldn't be concerned with such a small amount of product being added to the wash water.
Waterless washes such as Spray & Wipe could be used from a large spray system rather than a trigger spray bottle giving the impression of a special chemical mix. (Which it is) Kind of like the lawn guys having their spray hose rather than a small pump up sprayer.
A pump up sprayer for S&W would probably work fine, but hooking up a hose distribution system from your van/truck/trailer might not be too difficult. :dunno:
Keeping your polishes, waxes/sealants in smaller containers would allow you to leave the gallon containers in your garage. Chances are, you can do several jobs with a 4 oz. bottle of most products.
Bold N Bright would let you clean and dress tires with one spray bottle. Probably would work for most wheel wells, too.
Hey, I'm no pro, but in the winter all my products are in the basement. I can do a complete wash & wax with one tote tray using S&W.
If I do a rinseless wash, I need a two compartment bucket added to my list.
If I'm doing paint polishing or cleaning, I have another tote tray with polishing supplies in it.