How to Save your Business Money
Helping Customers Helps You
If you want to run a successful business, it is important to spend your money as efficiently as possible. This isn’t just more money in your pocket, this also helps your business keep prices lower for your customers, which will improve their satisfaction. Everyone knows that if a customer gets a more for his or her or her money, they not only will come back, but will also let everyone know what a great deal they got.
Hidden Costs
When we discusses how to Spray a Bed Liner Safely, we mentioned that spraying at higher pressure causes overspray to form a cloud of material in your work area. This, of course, means that you will need a ventilation system that will achieve safe levels of MDIs VOCs & CFCs. This is a big extra expense when starting a business. Not to mention the cost to insure an operation like this.
Extra Items
So you bought your new spray system and installed your spray booth, what else do you need to get up and running. To start, your going to need an air source. to get 11-15 CFM at 80-100 PSI, you need at least a 10 horsepower air compressor. Don’t forget that polyurethane reacts with water, so you have to have an air dryer on your compressor.
1 horsepower is equal to 745.7 watts. 10 Horsepower (7457 watts) is going to draw over 30 amps at 240 volts, and forget running it on 115 volts. Once you have your air compressor wired in, you should have everything you need to spray… Unless you need to be portable, in which case you need to add a generator that can handle your 7500 watt air compressor, your air dryer, & your spray system. At this point you might consider buying a trailer in order to move all of this equipment. As far as moving your spray booth goes, we’ll let you figure that out.
The Real Money
If Vortex’s self contained, system that can plug into any 115 volt outlet and spray without an air compressor, air dryer, or spray booth doesn’t seem interesting yet, your about to see where Vortex really makes the difference.
After everything is purchased and you have become your lending institution’s best friend, you are finally ready to start making money to pay it all off. Material will cost you over $200 per truck (possibly more if you want color). The cost of material to do the same truck with a Vortex system is close to half. Want to know where all of your money is going?
When you spray with a high pressure system, watch how the material behaves, see how much material floats into the atmosphere and either lands on every item laying out in your spray area or is whisked away by your ventilation system. Imagine how many trucks you could spray with the material you waste in a year. Vortex’s patented WhisperJet™ technology, has a transfer efficiency of up tp 98%, which means your material goes where you want it, not everywhere else. If you spray 10 trucks in a week, you could save from $20,000 to $40,000 a year. In 5 years, you could save up to $200,000 just in material.
Still not convinced? Check out this case study.
Think about it & do the math!
