Dewayne
Yes, you can count it as a business exspense, doesn't matter if you get-it at home,or any-where else you have to pay for it, and it is related to our business!!! Your local water company has meters that can attach to a fire hydrant, ours is 175.00 deposit and you take it in every 6 months or monthly and they will bill you or we could figure from our house it would cost .97 for 750 gals, which we have used, but we have a shop we use and water is Included in the rent about 25.00 month for water, but rent is 1200.00 month, but we dont pay for any of this,We wash some trucks for a friend,and we use his shop, and wash his and others trucks and trailers, we give him a discount 25.00 tractor, but wash is dually for free. We also use his shop for storage of chemicals and trailer so we don't have to have it at our house. More secure.
If you are going to use a fire hydrant---little note---
flush it out first, they usually have a lot of trash and rust that will come out first and can mess up your machine. First time we did it we have to take the tanks to a car wash and vaccumn out the rust in it. We have put filters to catch most trash from our tanks to our machines.
We have 2 machines that use 5.5 gpm. At some of our jobs, flatwork we have found low water pressure. That is why we have the tanks, no down time waiting for just one tank to fill up we usually have enough to work with until we think we need a 10 min. break. We do keep a hose running into the tank to continually fill the tanks.
We have found out it takes a lot of water. Sometimes more than what it may look like.
Hope this helps...
Jim & Shirley
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