Starting up a tanning salon 2

Cont: How to Start Up your Tanning Salon

Changing Your Lamps: As lamps age, they don't usually burn out before 1000 hours, but they do emit less UV rays and are much less effective as they age. Therefore, a salon owner should change the lamps when they are at approximately 80% of their "life expectancy" rating, which means about 800 hours for a 1,000 hour lamp; or about 700 hours for an 800 hour lamp. Statistically this would mean changing the lamps about once a year.

Face lamps need to be changed twice as often as standard lamps because their small lamps (approximately 400w) only last about 400 hours.

If you buy all of the lamps you need at one time, usually once each year, it will save you quite a bit of money. You will not only receive a discount on your bulk order, but you will also save on shipping the lamps all at once.

Maintaining Your Beds: Tanning beds should be cleaned in their entirety about four times a year, or about every 200 hours. They need to be completely torn down in order to be cleaned properly. The main components; fans, reflectors and lamps, should be cleaned. Novus #3, a cleaner which is similar to a soft scrub cleaner, only finer, that is specifically for acrylics, should be used. Use only a cleaner specified for acrylics and scrub both sides of both acrylics, then use a regular tanning bed cleaner after that. It is extremely important to only use a cleaner specified for acrylics because the UV breaks down with time.

Remember that the tanning beds contain acrylics, not Plexiglas. Acrylics transmit UV well, whereas plexi does not. With the passage of time, the acrylics will gradually become opaque to UV, and although the UV looks clear, it starts to get blocked. The only way to solve this problem is to use Novus #2 and strip away a microlayer. This procedure will only take about 30 minutes per bed and will emit 20% or more UV output. This is certainly a simple procedure to carry out in order to help keep your customers happy.

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