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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HoLeChit" data-source="post: 4133515" data-attributes="member: 35036">The big money is really in the pressure washer and the filtration systems. A Hotsy 1200 series (arguably the best in the industry) diesel fired, gas motor heated pressure washer will run you $12000-$14,000 and has a honda engine. A Northern Tool house brand skid that is comparable will run you $9k and has a kohler engine. Water filtration/deionizing filter system will run you between $400-5000 depending on what route you take. Here's a good chemical company, to give you an idea of consumables.[URL unfurl="true"]https://shinesupply.com/[/URL]My buddy had a 8x14ish trailer with his pressure washer skid, 300 and 500 gallon water tanks prefilled with filtered and treated water, a generator for the blower and vacuums, hoses, boxes for tools/fuel/dirty towels, etc etc. Bed of his F350 was filled with cleaning products and things like the sprayer for acid washing aluminum, brushes, etc. It really doesn't seem like much, but once you start ticking off the list, it gets expensive real quick to have everything you need. You can't reuse towels, ideally you need 4-5 different brushes just for the interior of a truck. 3-4 for the outside. 4-5 chemicals for the inside of a car depending on the job, 3-4 for the outside. Vacuums, buckets, spray bottles, etc etc. I did the math on starting up on my own, assuming I just wanted to start off with everything rather than working on differentiating myself from everyone else that was starting out with 2 buckets and a vacuum. It would have cost me about $20,000 to get everything going, to include insurance and business stuff. But it was fun, and rewarding. It paid pretty well, but a lot of work. We detailed everything, acid washed and polished livestock trailers, Alcoas, semi flatbeds, etc. Clean out the inside of livestock trailers, spray driveways, and vacuum up cheerios from between the cushions on the wife's escalade. It was a lot of work, and you had to be meticulous, but it was always something new. I remember going and before lunch we did a F450 platinum, a Navigator, a Lexus IS350, a beat up kawasaki mule, and a $300k Tige Wake boat. at lunch sitting underneath my buddies truck because there wasn't any shade, and we didn't want to sit on these folks patio. (thankfully my buddy has about 3.5ft of clearance under his truck). After lunch we hit some guys place and cleaned his bass boat, before going to a ranch and cleaning 4 ranchhand trucks, a semi, and cleaning/acid washing a 50ish foot livestock trailer with living quarters. Next day we went back and polished the Alcoa wheels on the semi, cleaned another smaller livestock trailer, and the owner's 3 trucks before lunch.</blockquote>

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