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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: lee_dewing on October 17, 2019, 04:48:56 pm

Title: Ibc tank needs cleaning
Post by: lee_dewing on October 17, 2019, 04:48:56 pm

Hello everyone

Had my 625 litre

Ibc tank 14 years
Going a bit green inside sides

Anyone cleaned, jet washed the inside of there’s

Any tips appreciated

I’ve cut a hatch in top of tank to fit submersible pump in

So I can get my arm in the tank
Not easy though 😁

Maybe a job for spring 🤔

Any tips appreciated
Thanks lee

Title: Re: Ibc tank needs cleaning
Post by: zesty on October 17, 2019, 04:51:11 pm

Sell it and buy a new one 😁

Title: Re: Ibc tank needs cleaning
Post by: Michael Peterson on October 18, 2019, 08:21:25 pm

Bleach and empty rinse

Title: Re: Ibc tank needs cleaning
Post by: Stoots on October 25, 2019, 11:39:13 pm

I cleaned mine out with the water fed pole.

Pulled the brush off the goosneck to get it in the tank then clipped it back on pole.

Scrubby scrub with some bleach and fairy them opened tank tap and kept flushing it through .

Title: Re: Ibc tank needs cleaning
Post by: nathankaye on October 26, 2019, 01:02:49 am

Sell n buy a black one

Title: Re: Ibc tank needs cleaning
Post by: windowswashed on October 26, 2019, 01:24:01 am

spray the outside black.

Title: Re: Ibc tank needs cleaning
Post by: Splash & dash on October 26, 2019, 08:28:12 pm

Fill the tank with tap water put in a a few litres of bleach or Miltons  solution slosh it about leave it tk stand of an hour empty the tank re fill and flush out again re fill with pure job done the bleach ( hypochlorite) will kill the green algy and sterilise the tank killing any bacteria in it , some manufacturers recommend doing this every year

Title: Re: Ibc tank needs cleaning
Post by: lee_dewing on October 30, 2019, 11:24:32 pm

Thanks splash and dash 👍

Thanks everyone 🤗

Nat, black tanks do they have an unpainted bar/window?

Wondering how you know when tanks full 😀🤭

Title: Re: Ibc tank needs cleaning
Post by: nathankaye on October 31, 2019, 01:52:40 am

Quote from: lee_dewing on October 30, 2019, 11:24:32 pm

Thanks splash and dash 👍

Thanks everyone 🤗

Nat, black tanks do they have an unpainted bar/window?

Wondering how you know when tanks full 😀🤭

Nope, no unpainted bar but that would have been ideal. I suppose you could use a solenoid valve or something.

However, i cut a square flap into mine, near the corner.  This was to fit a submersible transfer pump in but i use a 450gpd RO to fill mine and I know roughly how longbit takes to fill.  So I normally just keep an eye on it  in the evening and switch it off just before its nearly full.
Sure sometimes its slightly over filled, but not by much. Well nothing for me to worry about.

(Did this vid a while ago, but you can what im on about with the hole.......well you might not want to 😁😂 https://youtu.be/qQPhEVpf-hM  )