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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Perfect Windows on July 15, 2012, 05:49:50 pm

Title: Foaming from pure water at start of day
Post by: Perfect Windows on July 15, 2012, 05:49:50 pm
Anyone else get this?  When I first bung on the pump in the morning, I get slightly foamy water coming out of the brush.  It's much more noticeable on a Monday morning than any other.  It's been the same through the hose's life, and it's the same on both hoses.

Anyone, or is it just me?

Vin
Title: Re: Foaming from pure water at start of day
Post by: Lee Pryor on July 15, 2012, 05:57:30 pm
This is due to the pure water leaching the inside of the hose as it sits there. this is why its worse on a monday. I find it passes after just a few minutes
Title: Re: Foaming from pure water at start of day
Post by: Simon@ Clearview contractors on July 15, 2012, 05:58:02 pm
It happens with mine also...
Title: Re: Foaming from pure water at start of day
Post by: DaveG on July 15, 2012, 06:01:23 pm
Anyone else get this?  When I first bung on the pump in the morning, I get slightly foamy water coming out of the brush.  It's much more noticeable on a Monday morning than any other.  It's been the same through the hose's life, and it's the same on both hoses.

Anyone, or is it just me?

Vin

I keep telling you..you DON'T need to use fairy with wfp Vin  ;)
Title: Re: Foaming from pure water at start of day
Post by: Halfadaylee on July 15, 2012, 06:55:12 pm
I always think it looks like soap but could not understand where it was coming from
Art
Title: Re: Foaming from pure water at start of day
Post by: colin purewater on July 15, 2012, 07:11:19 pm
Is it not just a bit of air in you system?

How would it turn to foam ???
Title: Re: Foaming from pure water at start of day
Post by: bobplum on July 15, 2012, 07:36:02 pm
perhaps bubbly is a better description
Title: Re: Foaming from pure water at start of day
Post by: CLEANCARE WC on July 15, 2012, 07:37:56 pm
yes i get it from time to time and always think i have got fairy on my brush  ;D
Title: Re: Foaming from pure water at start of day
Post by: dazmond on July 15, 2012, 08:42:32 pm
ive had it happen half way through the day!i was cleaning this massive conny once and i actually thought the customer had used loads of fairy in between cleans!but on closer inspection its just pure water bubbles!!very strange!!

maybe tosh will be along soon with some scientific explanation that he ll copy and paste from wikipedia!! ;) ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Foaming from pure water at start of day
Post by: Blue Frog Systems on July 15, 2012, 08:54:31 pm
Always wondered about that ... i too thought it was fairy on my brush some how.

Only taken 3 years to figure that one out
Title: Re: Foaming from pure water at start of day
Post by: Perfect Windows on July 15, 2012, 10:45:57 pm
I've always assumed it's some kind of plasticiser in the hose that's ever so slightly soluble (so the water has to be against it for a long while) and that acts as a detergent.

Only lasts a minute or two, so not a problem; glad it's not just me.

Vin
Title: Re: Foaming from pure water at start of day
Post by: EandM on July 15, 2012, 11:11:02 pm
yes - every morning
Title: Re: Foaming from pure water at start of day
Post by: Ronnie Bryce on July 15, 2012, 11:26:43 pm
It has to do with the hose you use without a doubt. I never had this until I bought Gardiner's micro bore. First day I experienced this was the first day using it, to this day, it still foam's all the time. I don't pretend to know why it does or why my previous hose's never did. Probably due to manufacture material probably. Thankfully, the good new's is it does not affect the end result, no matter how concerning it look's at the time of cleaning.
Title: Re: Foaming from pure water at start of day
Post by: rosskesava on July 16, 2012, 12:48:42 am
ive had it happen half way through the day!i was cleaning this massive conny once and i actually thought the customer had used loads of fairy in between cleans!but on closer inspection its just pure water bubbles!!very strange!!

maybe tosh will be along soon with some scientific explanation that he ll copy and paste from wikipedia!! ;) ;D ;D ;D

I take that comment isn't for real but just a conceptual insult.  ;D

Tosh, I love you.  :-*  :-*  :-*  :-*  :-*

Well, I might as well come out and say it and a forum is as good a place as any.
Title: Re: Foaming from pure water at start of day
Post by: bobplum on July 16, 2012, 10:55:59 am
perhaps its cavitation  ???