Choosing a workshop space: rent or build?

Your business depends on how carefully you choose your workshop space. And that's no joke, because it's not just the quality of the service that affects your profits from car maintenance, it's also the location, interior and amount of usable floor space.

Let's think about what to favour: a ready-made building that can be rented for car service or building a service station from scratch.

Buildings recommended for medium/high level car service station

If your car service – not a roadside garage workshop, but a presentable business project, it should consist of a number of premises.

Buildings recommended for a medium/high level car service

Administrative areas – include a manager's office, accountant, other office staff, a catering area, and a medical centre.

Welfare rooms, in which sanitary facilities, changing room are located. They can be both as part of administrative buildings and freestanding buildings. The requirements of the Sanitary and Epidemiological Facility are applied to domestic premises.

Industrial premises – repair boxes and workshops, car wash, etc.

Service premises – waiting room, auto parts shop, cafe for customer service.

Warehouse – storage areas for aggregates, spare parts, technical fluids, tyres and other related facilities.

Auxiliary rooms – boiler room, transformer room, etc.

Outside areas should also be considered, including car parking, green spaces and even a playground.

Auxiliary facilities – boiler, transformer, etc.

Calculation of the total area for the construction of a car service station

The following are average calculations of the total area recommended for opening a modern service station for 10 posts:

Average calculations of the total area recommended for opening a modern service station for 10 posts.

1.        Repair area – 160 m2.

2.       Unit diagnosis and repair –12 m2.

3.        Tyre fitting – 28 m2.

4.       Car wash – 40 m2.

5.        Internal passageways –70 m2.

That makes a total of about 300 m2, to which you must add:

1.        Warehouse space – from 70 m2.

Allow for a total of about 300 m2.

2.       Showers, toilets, changing room – 50 m2.

Rent or buy?

On the one hand, to build a car service station will be much more expensive than its rent, because the cost will be calculated not in hundreds of thousands, but in millions of rubles. On the other hand, the right thoughtful investment of a tidy sum of money in your own business, with a professional approach will pay off and begin to bring a decent income within 1-2 years. Not only that, you will invest in the construction of your soul, which will bring not only financial gain, but also moral satisfaction. And what can be better than a business that not only feeds, but also pleases its owner?

Conclusion: you want to nurture your own brainchild and get material and moral benefits – start building a car service station. If you have enough financial satisfaction from the business, renting space for a service station – a great way to invest a reasonable amount of money and receive a monthly income from running your own business without thinking about other aspects of its existence.

Whether you decide to build the workshop space yourself or rent it, the most important thing – is quality equipment and qualified professionals. Finding good employees – is always a difficult process, but you can buy proven diagnostic benches alternators and other equipment in our online shop.

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