Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Pristine Clean on February 12, 2011, 05:33:56 am
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Hi Guys,
After you guys have cleaned a carpet what do you do with the dirty water that have chemicals in?
1. Do you take it to a waste disposal site?
2. Tip down a drain / or in a boarder where the flowers grow
3 Other
What are you suppose to do with it by law
Dave
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drink it through a straw
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I think, by law, it needs to go down a foul drain into the sewer network.
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Put it down the toilet/ sewer
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Outside waste drain on the clients property..
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There are rules in place, the main one being................you must not empty directly into roadside drains as they feed directly to rivers and could kill fish and other animals.
The major flaw in this, is that the waste from, car washes / graffiti removal / stone cleaning and other activities runs straight onto roads and down the drains in massively high volumes compared to what a carpet cleaner produces.
Personally...........I've always used a toilet if available, otherwise, over grass or a handy shrubbery.
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Toilet.
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Porty users dirty water down the loo
Truckmounters what do you do? buckets to the loo :D
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Porty users dirty water down the loo
Truckmounters what do you do? buckets to the loo :D
I Drink it! gggggggggggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr ;D
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Bet it tastes nice from that posh new machine you got ;D ;D
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toilet
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Auto pump out on Truckmount to Foul Drain at customers property or Foul Drain at home/unit.
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otherwise, over grass or a handy shrubbery.
surely that'd leave the grass covered in the carpet?
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Down here in cornwall we empty our tanks at a factory called Ginsters ... ;D ;D
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I auto pump on to what ever is within 15ft of the van, that could the lawn, flowerbeds, road gutter or customers drive it is just dirty water all the fluff is caught with a pre-filter.
give it 15 mins then its gone,
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Garden
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Down here in cornwall we empty our tanks at a factory called Ginsters ... ;D ;D
My waste water goes to a local brewer, he adds a dash of cheap vodka to it and calls it "Spingo" ;D
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Toilet or drain, which ever is nearest.
Some people have said flower bed or garden. Wont the dirty water mixed with chems damage flowers etc?
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Not if your using environmentally friendly products 8)
Mark
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Some people have said flower bed or garden. Wont the dirty water mixed with chems damage flowers etc?
I've done this for years even at my own house which is cleaned at least every 6 weeks and never seen any damage to the garden or shrubs.
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I've done this for years even at my own house which is cleaned at least every 6 weeks and never seen any damage to the garden or shrubs.
I did do it once (damage a lawn) but that was by emptying a hot texatherm machine with it's acid rinse solution onto the grass.
As for HWE I'm not admitting on a public forum where that waste goes other than to say if it's ok for vehicle contaminants along with detergent to go down the............
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I bet most chuck it on the road & then run like hell ;D ;D ;D ;D
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I saw a sneaky one on you tube, he had a standard porty drain valve with a pipe the exited through the floor within reach of the drivers seat. All he had to do was was open up on a clear road, bit naughty but clever.
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I bet most chuck it on the road & then run like hell ;D ;D ;D ;D
Got the t-shirt ;D
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i was told on a course i attended last year that on a domestic job the waste water must go down the loo, pouring it down a street drain is subject to a 20 grand fine.
on a commercial job, technically it has to be disposed of as a bio hazard ie through a registered company. thankfully its not rigorously enforced