Technical Services business

[Sw91]

Hello everyone, I’ve been coming to St Barth for almost ten years. I’m interested in opening a services business that provides automotive repair (mostly vintage restoration oriented) alongside an industrial power washing equipment and operation.
My question is how much demand would there be for such services? I’d imagine like anywhere professional mechanical work is in high demand, so how difficult is it to acquire workspace?
Next up with power washing, it’s an amazing service for anyone that has ever needed a very dirty thing cleaned that can withstand 4500 psi of hot water pressure. I’d also be interested in importing such equipment and training teams for its use.
I already have accommodations and so it would then the workspace id start looking for. I’m looking into importing a couple restored vintage trucks and some power washing equipment and provide mobile service.
Would this be something people would appreciate and need?

 

[amyb]

Water is an island precious commodity. Think carefully.

 

[le_reve]

A lot of obstacles to overcome, as Amy said, water is precious, space is precious, there are too many cars already. If you have been coming for 10 years, this seems like something you may already know.

(Also, I feel this is a bot, but maybe that's just me. )

 

[Sw91]

Not a bot, I just have my two kids crawling on my face while I try to write out my ideas so they are possible incomplete or incoherent. Please forgive me. Also not really proof read.
Anyways,
Power washing is actually a fairly eco friendly and water conscious solution. It’s more about the use of heat and pressure that makes things clean rather than the volume of water used. Alongside that it makes jobs that typically would require harsh chemicals, like concrete cleaner, less or not at all necessary. Also, in an industrial application, I will typically install water separation units that do exactly what it sounds like they do. They separate the water from the hazardous contents so the water can then go back into the sewage system, then the debris can be properly disposed. This is the osha required solution.
Another example would be someone scrubbing the their boat and using chemicals that fall into the water. This solution would not need to use chemical cleaners because the heat and pressure would do all the work, followed by an eco friendly polish/wax.

As for the car situation, I agree bringing in more cars is a problem. So perhaps disposal of two for everyone one imported could be in the conversation. A lot of people still need cars in st Barth and the problem I see is a lot of vehicles are not fit for the terrain. I think smaller type trucks in 2-4 door options are very good for st Barth. You’d also be surprised to find that a lot of compact or small engine cars are as inefficient or worse than their Land Rover counterparts. In any case my preference is towards providing high quality compact 4x4 vehicles that are gas powered and vintage. Vintage vehicles that are restored are overall better for the environment because producing new vehicles is worse especially in the case of electric cars. And don’t get me started on disposal of electric cars, giant lithium batteries are terrible for an island environment

 

[Hawke]

A lot of obstacles to overcome, as Amy said, water is precious, space is precious, there are too many cars already. If you have been coming for 10 years, this seems like something you may already know.

(Also, I feel this is a bot, but maybe that's just me. )

Bot

 

[bkeats]

Dumb bot too. Imagine driving one of those huge 70s era 4x4 trucks down the roads that are barely wide enough for the current tiny cars. On our last trip I ended up with one of the new 4 door four wheel drive Jimnys as we had a large group. Even though I have been driving the roads for years, I had a few white knuckle moments when I had to pull to the right as far as I could to let opposing traffic pass. Give me a tiny Picanto any time over a truck.

 

[KevinS]

Not a bot.

 

[Max1030]

This reads like a bot, anyone with ten years of St Barth would not propose this business plan

 

[Beachcomber]

If you bring Mokes back I’m all in.

 

[Leon]

This reads like a bot, anyone with ten years of St Barth would not propose this business plan

AI and undelying LLM's are improving. Now, most of the feed on all of the large social networks is, in fact, AI Slop (AI-generated nonsense). And to use the poster's IP address as a criterion is past its prime; with VPN, one can pretend to post from almost any point on Earth, and soon maybe in space.

As an aside, bots or not, they create some entertaining conversations here.