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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: darren clarke on October 14, 2010, 08:34:24 pm
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does pure water ruin your cloths, as seem to be going through loads of pants lately, was blaming tumble dryer but it is only happenign to my work pants
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Are you swimming in it? How are you getting so much on your pants? You're supposed to be cleaning windows with it. ;)
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I got some in my eyes the other day - my wife has to type this out for me.
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lol aint swimming in it just seem to be ruin pants in the front thigh area, and front of work top
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you have work pants? ;D lol
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sorry! i get it....its a northern thing. hovis,last of the summer wine,pants aka trousers
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seriously tho. Blue monkey do you take your battery out the van to charge it? could be battery acid, it has eaten holes in my work t shirts and one pair of pants ;) ;D
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just seen your from cornwall soz :)
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its ok use to be northern monkey, now i am just a emit, come down to steal jobs of the inbreds
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i agree with blue monkey .it deos stain some clothes
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does pure water ruin your cloths, as seem to be going through loads of pants lately, was blaming tumble dryer but it is only happenign to my work pants
No it`s your age. You have less control of your bladder as you get older ;).
Unless it`s your bowels :o.
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I`d like an expert to come on this thread cos as i understand it,its just water. I dont even notice that it cleans any better than normal tap water. Just the fact it leaves no residue when it evaporates seems all its got going for it, full stop. I would like to be informed if it has any magical properties and if it is better at cleaning than tap water. I think its better at rinsing than cleaning.
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Pure water will make you sterile and ensure that your noodly appendage drops off. It eats through vans so that a brand new van will be a rusted out floorless wreck within weeks.
If it gets on your driveway then you will have a hole bigger than Krakatoa within days.
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Do not pay attention to myths guys and gals - pure water does no more harm than normal water.
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Pure water will make you sterile and ensure that your noodly appendage drops off. It eats through vans so that a brand new van will be a rusted out floorless wreck within weeks.
If it gets on your driveway then you will have a hole bigger than Krakatoa within days.
;D
Do not pay attention to myths guys and gals - pure water does no more harm than normal water.
You should't really drink it though. not as a regular thing.
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I`d like an expert to come on this thread cos as i understand it,its just water. I dont even notice that it cleans any better than normal tap water. Just the fact it leaves no residue when it evaporates seems all its got going for it, full stop. I would like to be informed if it has any magical properties and if it is better at cleaning than tap water. I think its better at rinsing than cleaning.
Try this as an experiment......try clean a car alloy covered in brake dust with ordinary water, then try clean the other one with pure water.
To me it seems to be great at cleaning anything carbon/salt based? Great for removing traffic film off the car or van too.
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Pure water will make you sterile and ensure that your noodly appendage drops off. It eats through vans so that a brand new van will be a rusted out floorless wreck within weeks.
If it gets on your driveway then you will have a hole bigger than Krakatoa within days.
;D
Do not pay attention to myths guys and gals - pure water does no more harm than normal water.
You should't really drink it though. not as a regular thing.
why r merlins installed for drinking water then ??? ??? ??? ???
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Pure water will make you sterile and ensure that your noodly appendage drops off. It eats through vans so that a brand new van will be a rusted out floorless wreck within weeks.
If it gets on your driveway then you will have a hole bigger than Krakatoa within days.
;D
Do not pay attention to myths guys and gals - pure water does no more harm than normal water.
You should't really drink it though. not as a regular thing.
why r merlins installed for drinking water then ??? ??? ??? ???
But they don't fit a resin polisher at the end of the line before the tap, do they?
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That is true about not drinking the stuff especially after it's been through resin.
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I`d like an expert to come on this thread cos as i understand it,its just water. I dont even notice that it cleans any better than normal tap water. Just the fact it leaves no residue when it evaporates seems all its got going for it, full stop. I would like to be informed if it has any magical properties and if it is better at cleaning than tap water. I think its better at rinsing than cleaning.
Try this as an experiment......try clean a car alloy covered in brake dust with ordinary water, then try clean the other one with pure water.
To me it seems to be great at cleaning anything carbon/salt based? Great for removing traffic film off the car or van too.
I will be giving that a go and am prepared to be astounded.If it wasn`t dark i would be out there now !
I`ve got 300 tds tapwater so that ought to be a decent enough comparison. I might make a cup of tea with the pure and see does my two spoonfuls of sugar dissolve quicker.
I cleaned some windows with tap water the other day as i had done the gutters above with detergent etc and splashed them so scrubbed the windows with the wfp connected to the tap i was rinsing the gutters with and it seemed to take all the dirt off no probs. This was gutters and a first clean. Final rinse with another brush and pure to finish but was quite amazed how clean they were seeming at just tap water stage.
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I see it as this,
Tapwater is pure water with a few bits in it.
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I see it as this,
Tapwater is pure water with a few bits in it.
Yeah, I`m gonna try saying something like that to the missus.
I`m only drinking tap water.......with a few whiskey bits in it.
I`ll just have a salad........with a few donner meat bits in it.
I saw your friend today.....I`d like to put a few bits in it.
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I`d like an expert to come on this thread cos as i understand it,its just water. I dont even notice that it cleans any better than normal tap water. Just the fact it leaves no residue when it evaporates seems all its got going for it, full stop. I would like to be informed if it has any magical properties and if it is better at cleaning than tap water. I think its better at rinsing than cleaning.
Try this as an experiment......try clean a car alloy covered in brake dust with ordinary water, then try clean the other one with pure water.
To me it seems to be great at cleaning anything carbon/salt based? Great for removing traffic film off the car or van too.
So that's why my poles are dissolving?
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So that's why my poles are dissolving?
I didn't think you employed anyone :o
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You should't really drink it though. not as a regular thing.
Its okay to drink, most yachts have R.O units on them for drinking.
Its D.I that you need to be concerned about.
http://www.yachtmate.com/yachtmate-matrix-watermaker.html
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google dionized water and you ll see there is a mention of using it for window cleaning and that its more aggressive than normal water and its mildly solvent.
yes it does clean better than tap water but only just!! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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sssshhhhhh :-X :-X :-X keep this to ourselves but someone told me its good for cleaning windows ?
Anyone ever tried this ? ;)
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sssshhhhhh :-X :-X :-X keep this to ourselves but someone told me its good for cleaning windows ?
Anyone ever tried this ? ;)
Sod that, Its a mugs game
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I see it as this,
Tapwater is pure water with a few bits in it.
otherwise known as 'chalk soup' - very low calorific value, great if you're a fatso.
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Given up washing scrims in it as they get holey. Also stopped wearing cotton t-shirts as these tend to get holes in shoulder/chest area where they are splashed by the pure water.
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Given up washing scrims in it as they get holey. Also stopped wearing cotton t-shirts as these tend to get holes in shoulder/chest area where they are splashed by the pure water.
This has pure water sounding dangerous, so i have tap water at 300 tds,what about people with very low tds tapwater,this must be near dangerous stuff.
Maybe there is cotton eating bacteria in it.(seriously).
Maybe your scrims and t-shirts were ready for retirement.
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My tap water is tds 30 should i buy chalk dust to make our drinking water safe.If cotton gets damp alot it rots same as any organic material
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I'm surprised this hasn't been mentioned yet...
RO removes all the impurities. It doesn't remove dissolved carbon dioxide. As any fule kno, dissolve carbon dioxide in water and you get carbonic acid. My pure water has a pH of 6.0, so it's a pretty mild acid. Areas (and times of the year make a difference) with more dissolved CO2 can get it as low as 5, which is about as acidic as tomato juice.
That might explain it. I t might also explain why it does clean a little better than tap water, which around here have enough salts dissolved in them to make the water alkaline.
Vin
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Pure water will make you sterile and ensure that your noodly appendage drops off. It eats through vans so that a brand new van will be a rusted out floorless wreck within weeks.
If it gets on your driveway then you will have a hole bigger than Krakatoa within days.
;D
Do not pay attention to myths guys and gals - pure water does no more harm than normal water.
You should't really drink it though. not as a regular thing.
why r merlins installed for drinking water then ??? ??? ??? ???
But they don't fit a resin polisher at the end of the line before the tap, do they?
im not talkin bout di fella ;)
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I'm surprised this hasn't been mentioned yet...
RO removes all the impurities. It doesn't remove dissolved carbon dioxide. As any fule kno, dissolve carbon dioxide in water and you get carbonic acid. My pure water has a pH of 6.0, so it's a pretty mild acid. Areas (and times of the year make a difference) with more dissolved CO2 can get it as low as 5, which is about as acidic as tomato juice.
That might explain it. I t might also explain why it does clean a little better than tap water, which around here have enough salts dissolved in them to make the water alkaline.
Vin
Sportsmans bet says you wont find any carbonic acid in the pure water,theoretically yes,but water breaks down carbonic acid into water and dissolved C02. Confusing in the least,but carbonic acid itself is destroyed by water. Least thats where my studies have ended. Another culprit for the magical properties of pure water is sought.
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Sportsmans bet says you wont find any carbonic acid in the pure water,theoretically yes,but water breaks down carbonic acid into water and dissolved C02. Confusing in the least,but carbonic acid itself is destroyed by water. Least thats where my studies have ended. Another culprit for the magical properties of pure water is sought.
"Water breaks down carbonic acid into water and dissolved CO2" - not sure what you're trying to say, but it sounds unusual, to say the least. It doesn't make sense at all the way I'm reading it. In fact, utterly pure, distilled water left open to the air will dissolve CO2 from the air and become dilute carbonic acid, which seems to be the opposite of your statement (though I may be misunderstanding it)
Sportman's bet that if you MEASURE the pH of your water rather than guessing, you'll find it's acidic. Kit at a fish shop for a fiver will tell you. I have measured my water pH at 6, so the carbonic acid certainly isn't being "broken down".
Vin
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Sportsmans bet says you wont find any carbonic acid in the pure water,theoretically yes,but water breaks down carbonic acid into water and dissolved C02. Confusing in the least,but carbonic acid itself is destroyed by water. Least thats where my studies have ended. Another culprit for the magical properties of pure water is sought.
"Water breaks down carbonic acid into water and dissolved CO2" - not sure what you're trying to say, but it sounds unusual, to say the least. It doesn't make sense at all the way I'm reading it. In fact, utterly pure, distilled water left open to the air will dissolve CO2 from the air and become dilute carbonic acid, which seems to be the opposite of your statement (though I may be misunderstanding it)
Sportman's bet that if you MEASURE the pH of your water rather than guessing, you'll find it's acidic. Kit at a fish shop for a fiver will tell you. I have measured my water pH at 6, so the carbonic acid certainly isn't being "broken down".
Vin
Rainwater has a ph of appx 5.65
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Rainwater has a ph of appx 5.65
Rainfall is acidic because atmospheric carbon dioxide dissolves in the rainwater producing weak carbonic acid.
Vin
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Some of the big coffee chains use pure water for making their coffee.
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Rainwater has a ph of appx 5.65
Rainfall is acidic because atmospheric carbon dioxide dissolves in the rainwater producing weak carbonic acid.
Vin
Its more complex than that,ions and carbonates etc.
Seems to me that carbonic acid is only theoretical. C02 plus water creates carbonic acid but carbonic acid plus water produces C02 plus water. So you only need one molecule of water to mix with carbonic acid to create a chain reaction as more and more water is produced.
Its definitely the absence of tds that allows the water to become more acidic though. Strange though that acidity might be pure waters plus point as the best cleaning products tend to be the opposite, strong alkalines.
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Seems to me that carbonic acid is only theoretical. C02 plus water creates carbonic acid but carbonic acid plus water produces C02 plus water. So you only need one molecule of water to mix with carbonic acid to create a chain reaction as more and more water is produced.
I've hesitated to say this until now: I don't know where you're getting your information from on this but whoever is telling you this is completely, totally and utterly wrong in every factual respect. Carbonic acid plus water produces more dilute carbonic acid (which is slightly less acidic). It does not produce CO2 plus water. Adding water to carbonic acid cannot create a "chain reaction" of any type under any circumstances. The only time CO2 will be released is if the amount dissolved in the water is greater than the equilibrium amount in solution given atmospheric pressure and the atmospheric proportion of CO2. (I'm assuming here that we're talking about water that has not been injected with CO2, of course. All of this is scientifically factual, not a matter of opinion.
Vin
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Seems to me that carbonic acid is only theoretical. C02 plus water creates carbonic acid but carbonic acid plus water produces C02 plus water. So you only need one molecule of water to mix with carbonic acid to create a chain reaction as more and more water is produced.
I've hesitated to say this until now: I don't know where you're getting your information from on this but whoever is telling you this is completely, totally and utterly wrong in every factual respect. Carbonic acid plus water produces more dilute carbonic acid (which is slightly less acidic). It does not produce CO2 plus water. Adding water to carbonic acid cannot create a "chain reaction" of any type under any circumstances. The only time CO2 will be released is if the amount dissolved in the water is greater than the equilibrium amount in solution given atmospheric pressure and the atmospheric proportion of CO2. (I'm assuming here that we're talking about water that has not been injected with CO2, of course. All of this is scientifically factual, not a matter of opinion.
Vin
So all water is carbonic acid then?
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Seems to me that carbonic acid is only theoretical. C02 plus water creates carbonic acid but carbonic acid plus water produces C02 plus water. So you only need one molecule of water to mix with carbonic acid to create a chain reaction as more and more water is produced.
I've hesitated to say this until now: I don't know where you're getting your information from on this but whoever is telling you this is completely, totally and utterly wrong in every factual respect. Carbonic acid plus water produces more dilute carbonic acid (which is slightly less acidic). It does not produce CO2 plus water. Adding water to carbonic acid cannot create a "chain reaction" of any type under any circumstances. The only time CO2 will be released is if the amount dissolved in the water is greater than the equilibrium amount in solution given atmospheric pressure and the atmospheric proportion of CO2. (I'm assuming here that we're talking about water that has not been injected with CO2, of course. All of this is scientifically factual, not a matter of opinion.
Vin
So all water is carbonic acid then?
Er.... point me to anywhere in that paragraph of mine where I even hint that that might be the case.
Vin
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NOTE TO SELF...do not get involved in scientific debate with sean brennan or perfect windows. ;D
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NOTE TO SELF...do not get involved in scientific debate with sean brennan or perfect windows. ;D
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I haven't the foggiest idea of what this all about ::)
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Given up washing scrims in it as they get holey. Also stopped wearing cotton t-shirts as these tend to get holes in shoulder/chest area where they are splashed by the pure water.
This has pure water sounding dangerous, so i have tap water at 300 tds,what about people with very low tds tapwater,this must be near dangerous stuff.
Maybe there is cotton eating bacteria in it.(seriously).
Maybe your scrims and t-shirts were ready for retirement.
Happened to a few t-shirts, generally new and 1 brand new and some fairly new scrims.
If it was bacteria would expect it to happen to other cotton t-shirts etc. but only material that comes into contact with pure water, and in case of t-shirts the areas they tend to get a splashed by the pure H20.
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Seems to me that carbonic acid is only theoretical. C02 plus water creates carbonic acid but carbonic acid plus water produces C02 plus water. So you only need one molecule of water to mix with carbonic acid to create a chain reaction as more and more water is produced.
I've hesitated to say this until now: I don't know where you're getting your information from on this but whoever is telling you this is completely, totally and utterly wrong in every factual respect. Carbonic acid plus water produces more dilute carbonic acid (which is slightly less acidic). It does not produce CO2 plus water. Adding water to carbonic acid cannot create a "chain reaction" of any type under any circumstances. The only time CO2 will be released is if the amount dissolved in the water is greater than the equilibrium amount in solution given atmospheric pressure and the atmospheric proportion of CO2. (I'm assuming here that we're talking about water that has not been injected with CO2, of course. All of this is scientifically factual, not a matter of opinion.
Vin
So all water is carbonic acid then?
Er.... point me to anywhere in that paragraph of mine where I even hint that that might be the case.
Vin
I can only hazard a guess as to where your interpretation of the scientific facts became misleading and have now lost interest as i find my mind constantly reverting to the statement made earlier by my wife that we are getting through £9 of cheese a week .
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If somebody gave me a block of cheese for cleaning their windows i would be gutted.
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someone got paid in meat for cleaning an awning last week lol, not slagging them off at all im sure they got more meat than what the money for the job would of bought.
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Nay pure water don't ruin your clothes thats where and tear isn't it, as it's not acid is it lol, which defiantly would ruin your clothes and more