Car Wash Equipment Protection and Layout and Installation Considerations

TricoShade designs and manufactures Velarium brand shade solutions for car washes across America.

Shade structures are known to increase revenue in car washes. They also save money by protecting and extending the life of car wash equipment. Velarium shade structures, shadesails, carwash vacuum canopies, vending awnings and carports can be incorporated into your business, offering protection from UV deterioration. In addition, the steel columns can be positioned as bollards to offer protection for car wash equipment .

Shade for car wash vacuum areas  
Shade structures for car wash equipment protection (click to enlarge)
Multi-use car wash equipment shade structures  

We will arrange for Velarium brand shade structure installation at your car wash business through our extensive dealer network or provide easy to follow instructions for local self installation.

Helpful Information for Starting or Upgrading a New Carwash Business

Car Wash
Equipment Protection

Shade structures reduce wear and tear on equipment by blocking the heat and harmful UV radiation of the sun. Protect your business investment by protecting your car wash equipment from heat and UV damage.

Although most car wash equipment is built to withstand the elements, UV blocking shade sails and canopies extend the life of the equipment life by inhibiting weathering and fading, preventing signs, plastic, lexan, hoses, rubber seals, and decals from deteriorating, cracking and peeling that will occur over time if something is not done to prevent it.

Commonly shade cloth sails have been used to provide shade over playground areas, keeping metal

Shade for car wash vacuum areas (click to enlarge)

structures from getting hot to the touch and burning children on the playground. The same can be applied to car washes.

Metal carports once widely used everywhere have been replaced with shadeports - another name for our shade structures created with outdoor shade fabric - to provide cool shade while keeping metal surfaces underneath them cool. The porousness of the shade netting covers allow hot air to rise, rather than trapping it, as happens with metal roofs.

    Car Wash Layout and
Installation Considerations

Custom canopies and shade structures, car wash roofs, wind screens, and special connections, or brackets and hardware for car wash equipment - such as suspended central vacuum systems, customer paging systems, internet access, and lighting - can be incorporated into our shade designs, to including parking bollards.

Traffic flow is critical to the design and layout of a car wash as a busy car wash can attract customers, but not if they can't get in or out without a traffic jam. Velarium offers shade structures and shadeports designed to be integrated with traffic flow.

There are many installation options for new or existing car washes depending on the type of shade structure that would be the most appropriate for the location. Depending on the shade structure and car wash layout, columns can be positioned so that they act as bollards to protect equipment from someone striking it with a vehicle, or can be installed directly into the masonry vacuum islands or stainless steel vacuum islands offering maximum clearance and maximum workspace.

It is very important to consider the size - including the minimum and maximum height, length, and width allowances of the area to be covered as well as the intended use of the space to work under- to establish the most cost effective design options available.

Ask any car wash manufacturer and they will tell you that presentation and placement of the car wash system and building structures play a key role in the productivity of a car wash that add up to maximum potential profits.

Velarium shade structures are durable steel structures with a breathable net fabric top commonly known as shade cloth, which are able to withstand strong winds, hail protection and provide maximum protection from the harsh UV radiation from the sun for employees, customers, vehicles, and car wash equipment.

Velarium shade structures offer shelter from the local weather conditions and environmental factors, but they are not intended to create a hundred percent waterproof area, as the shade cloth is porous to allow heat to dissipate and cooler air to circulate through the shade structure. However, depending on the size, design, and pitch of the roof style, a Velarium shade structure can shed as much as eighty-five percent of rain during a medium to light shower and offer protection from hail or hard rain in a heavy shower.

Selecting a Velarium shade structure depends greatly on the requirements of the area to be covered. We can work closely with car wash owners, car wash equipment manufactures, architects, engineers, and building contractors to ensure proper site usage, building code requirements, coordinating installation schedules, and above all creating a car wash facility that stands out above the crowd,inviting customers to come in out of the sun.

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car wash shade solutions!

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