Pure water @ £0.15 per litre

« **on:** September 26, 2005, 07:47:56 pm »

Buying pure water at 15p per litre sounds good to me espesially as were on a water meter but is it financialy viable ?
r/o systems aren't cheap but there not so expensive that i shouldn't own one, so what im wondering is it a easy way of getting on with wfp trolley sys (buying it in 25l cans that is)

curious

« **Reply #1 on:** September 26, 2005, 08:09:03 pm »

£150 for 1000 litres you must be mad, Ill sell you 1000litres for £100 then your saved youself £50.

« **Reply #2 on:** September 26, 2005, 08:11:51 pm »

i`ll do it for £50

« **Reply #3 on:** September 26, 2005, 08:12:16 pm »

I'll deliver it also - £50

« **Reply #4 on:** September 26, 2005, 08:13:23 pm »

wow thanks for the response but im still curious as to how much it costs to filter 1litre

« **Reply #5 on:** September 26, 2005, 08:14:15 pm »

Quote from: rosskesava on September 26, 2005, 08:12:16 pm

I'll deliver it also - £50

ross

do you deliver to penzance

Dave

« **Reply #6 on:** September 26, 2005, 08:23:32 pm »

Hi ChrisC

Are you asking how much it costs per litre if you are on a meter?

If you are - personnaly I don't know but I do know another local window cleaner who uses WFP and he doesn't think the cost enough to worry about in terms of his business.

Hi Dave

Er...... maybe not to Penzance though....

« **Reply #7 on:** September 26, 2005, 08:26:59 pm »

Do you think it's actually £0.015 per litre? (If we're talking about metereage here.)

That is £1.50 per 1000 litres. Sounds more realistic to me!

« **Reply #8 on:** September 26, 2005, 08:35:55 pm »

the cost is acually £0.15 per litre

this my 1st enquiry into the cost per litre
so only have this as a frame of ref

« **Reply #9 on:** September 26, 2005, 08:38:20 pm »

Hey what do I know, but I've had the calculator out all day, sitting in front of this idiot computer screen learning about pure water systems.
I think if you are using roughly 2000L pw it'll cost about £10 on your bill. I'm on a meter. What's that? About .05p per litre.
A little knowledge is dangerous!

Pj

« **Reply #10 on:** September 26, 2005, 08:39:11 pm »

Where would you be buying your water at that price? 15p per litre?

It'd be far more cost effective to brew your own - preferably with an R/O, but even with resin only it'd be far cheaper.

« **Reply #11 on:** September 26, 2005, 08:47:23 pm »

from a local aquatic supplier

« **Reply #12 on:** September 26, 2005, 08:50:47 pm »

If you wont some pure what, we sell it at 20 pounds per 1000lts But you will have to drive to dorset for it, as it happens we surplie me local W/C companys.

Andy

« **Reply #13 on:** September 26, 2005, 08:58:24 pm »

So I gather from all your responses its cheaper to brew my own ( cheers Malc(G)ould )

I better get an R/O then

Thanks guys

« **Reply #14 on:** September 26, 2005, 09:04:39 pm »

just buy a RO

im on a meter aswell
my last bill came in a while back, and i worked it out it was costing me 4 quid a day to work

thats nothing

« **Reply #15 on:** September 26, 2005, 09:08:04 pm »

Matt

If im right you made your own trolley didnt you

do you polish water off after R/O or is the tds so low you dont need to?

« **Reply #16 on:** September 26, 2005, 09:44:26 pm »

http://www.d.co.uk/

yes i polished it off with DI resin

i started off using this, its refillable and costs about 10 quid, add it to your RO and your all set (some of the RO from RO-MAN come with a DI cart anyways

it comes with all the fittings etc

as my RO brings the water down to about 7 or 8

10 quid of resin lasted me near 8 months

« **Reply #17 on:** September 26, 2005, 09:50:29 pm »

Thanks Matt

I'll do just that

using you as inspiration and gonna build my own cart

Thanks again

« **Reply #18 on:** September 26, 2005, 09:52:33 pm »

no probs

pop over to the DIY forum, most of the questions have been asked, and most answered

« **Reply #19 on:** September 26, 2005, 10:04:50 pm »

Matt

What size RO (gpd) have you got??

I have had my wfp for about a month now along with my RO (50gpd) and was looking at buying resin but not sure if i should go for the 25kg bag as it works out cheaper.

My tds goes down to about 3 - 4 before it goes through DI.

If it lasts that long i'm not sure i will need that size bag as i am not sure if there is a sort of use by date with resin??

« **Reply #20 on:** September 26, 2005, 10:52:05 pm »

Craig

check matts wfp diy site he uses 60gpd R/O
also not sure if resin has exp date ...if not whats the harm youve got plenty to go round

« **Reply #21 on:** September 26, 2005, 10:52:19 pm »

mine is 60 gpd

a 10 quid bag from RO man will last you ages

« **Reply #22 on:** September 26, 2005, 10:55:03 pm »

Matt

whats in the pump box apart from the pump that is
is there a flow reg or whatever?

« **Reply #23 on:** September 26, 2005, 10:58:10 pm »

its the pump

a pump filter (stops anything that has fallen into the barrel getting sucked up into the pump, it does happen, you will be surprised)

a flow regulator, its that lever, it just sends some of the water back into the pump, thus turning the flow down

a fuse

thats it

« **Reply #24 on:** September 26, 2005, 11:01:29 pm »

not an awful lot then for 200 smackers

« **Reply #25 on:** September 26, 2005, 11:02:06 pm »

Chris, if you want a system

i have 1 for sale, see this post

http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=10405.0

you could pick it up from london if you wanted, save you postage and travel

wfp@safe-mail.net

« **Reply #26 on:** September 26, 2005, 11:04:13 pm »

Quote from: ChrisC on September 26, 2005, 11:01:29 pm

not an awful lot then for 200 smackers

i priced it up, pump and pump filter about 100 quid

flow thingy (which i dont use anyways) 10 odd quid

fuse 3 quid from halfords

switch from halfords aswell

fittings and pipe about 10 quid

130 ish quid to build, i just used that way, as its built and "plug in and go" you dont need to faff around

« **Reply #27 on:** September 26, 2005, 11:17:55 pm »

Matt
love the system as i said "using you as inspiration"

but dont have a lot of spare£ at mo..why i thought i would diy

unless you take shirt buttons that is

If i had cash id be down the m4 tomoz

« **Reply #28 on:** September 27, 2005, 09:25:18 am »

Quote from: ChrisC on September 26, 2005, 11:17:55 pm

Matt
love the system as i said "using you as inspiration"

i must admit, even though people see me as the DIY bloke, i took advice and help of both Philip and Jeff (who both post here) and i know Jeff posts on the DIY forum aswell
They both did it B4 me, Jeff years B4 me

I have just "sung the DIY song" to help others

, as i cannot see why people would want to pay "big money" for a system that does the same job

« **Reply #29 on:** September 27, 2005, 11:06:53 am »

To a point i would agree, but you have to remember some companys have more than one van on the road and have to work on a bigger scale and going cheap with not have a tryed and trusted system that feed many vans that could brack down and cost a hell of a lot of money in down time.

Andy