Car washing?

Question

Is the money in car washing i mean doing it mobile in a van

has any one does it before and is there money in it

Answer 1

Depends how you plan on building the business and how much you need/want to make.....I mean there are a lot of people making money cutting lawns, and that probably takes more machinery investment and gas than washing cars. And once the neighbors see them doing a good job, they start getting next door houses to service, and their costs tumble...

How about trying to find "corporate" clients, or condo clients - I don't mean the companies/condos themselves, I mean the people that work at the company or live in the condo. If you can get permission from the car park manager to wash cars in the car park (and this may be a big stumbler..) then you may find you can hit a large number of clients with little effort...where I used to work a few years ago there was a guy did this...I'd drive to work in a dirty car, and drive home in a clean car....he had about 200 other clients just like me in the same car park. I reckon he must have done alright...

And once you're up and running, keep an eye on the local service contract tenders from government agencies, school districts, metro etc ..has to be some money in those.....

Answer 2

It would  not be a profitable enough business in todays world, for a lot of good reasons.

1) You would have to supply yourself with products to do the job.

2) Having to fill the tank in the van with today's gas prices would be extremely exspensive, and would probably eat up most of the money you would make.

3) Considering the business costs of the above expenses, you would have to charge an exhorbarant amount to your customers to cover those cost, which nobody would want to pay when all they would have to do is stop by any self serve carwash, throw in five to ten bucks and do it themselves.

4) You also would have to be insured and bonded against any damages that could incur if a customer didn't like the work you did, and wanted to file a claim against you,not to mention having to have insurance on the van itself.

No, it wouldn't be worth it.

Answer 3

no