Maintaining Your Spray Rig for Optimal Performance

Most spray foam contractors can agree that due to the nature of their business, that regular maintenance on their spray rig is often neglected. Long work days and demanding schedules can leave contractors having little to no time to preform regular and preventative maintenance on their equipment.

This blog series introduces you to regular and preventative equipment options for your spray rig and how to schedule them to prevent equipment failures and profit losses.

Most issues that arise on job sites with equipment are due to operator error. A large part to the operator error is that they did not perform regular preventative maintenance that is required before, during and after use of equipment. Demanding schedules and deadlines can cause spray foam installers to either forget or overlook maintenance that is required and can cause a delay in production if equipment fails. Equipment training is key for installers so they are able to address equipment failures on site as regulating and scheduling the maintenance for the rig is key to the contractor.

Why Do You Need Preventative and Regular Maintenance for Your Spray Rig?

By maintaining your spray rig, you will decrease profit loss caused by equipment failures, limit scheduling issues and operational errors.  Having a spray rig that operates at optimal performance will help for better on-site experiences. An optimal rig will also limit delays from having to stop and not only fix the failure, but then preform on-site maintenance.

Who Benefits From Maintaining The Spray Rig?

Spray Foam contractors, installers and customers all benefit from a well-maintained rig. The contractor will cut cost from downtime due to failures, installers have less downtime trying to fix issues and customers are able to stay on project deadlines when the contractor has optimal equipment.  Preventative and regular maintenance does take time out of operation schedules, but neglecting to preform and schedule leads to an even greater time lost on operation schedules.

What Does it Mean to Have an Optimal Performance Rig?

An optimal performance spray rig is one that operates with few issues simplifying business operations. Daily operations can be unpredictable in the spray foam business. Many issues can arise from vendors, customers, equipment and mother nature. Having a simplified business operation gives contractors ease of mind and assurance when completing projects. Equipment failures are the number one issue that most contractors experience and the most costly.  By understanding the equipment and the maintenance it requires will help your rig operate with fewer issues and create more time to address other parts of the operational process within your business.  Businesses that follow maintenance plans tend to be more profitable and reputable due to their efficiency and reliability of their equipment and work.

In the following series post, you will learn about what the most common spray foam equipment failures are due to not maintaining, how to identify regular and preventative maintenance issues with equipment and how to schedule and carry out maintenance to fit your business.