Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Perfect Windows on October 31, 2014, 04:58:55 pm
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Washed out my hose rags with pure water and, on a whim, tested the TDS. 21!
(http://i1359.photobucket.com/albums/q797/Onionman9999/20141026_145816_zps0598efba.jpg) (http://s1359.photobucket.com/user/Onionman9999/media/20141026_145816_zps0598efba.jpg.html)
Love to hear from people who use rainwater that's run down a minging roof, down a filthy drainpipe and into a tank. Might be low TDS but is it clean?
Vin
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I might start using river water!
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That's mostly sediment run it through a sediment filter and it will be O.K. well if you consider 21 O.K.
I would recommend anybody using rain water to run it through a sediment filter.
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Just to be clear I'm not saying 21 isn't O.K. its just that everybody has their own preference on
what TDS they like to work with.
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Mine comes off my shed roof which has a nice clean piece of Perspex
on it which I clean regularly as well as the guttering I have aquarium sponge
in the down pipe and muslin type cloth strapped over the opening.
In a good down pour ive had as low as 2ppm but average around 11ppm
the water doesn't sit there long enough to accumulate crap and its clear
I definitely wouldn't drink it though :)
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you got a muslin up yer drainpipe? :o
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you got a muslin up yer drainpipe? :o
Shut up david ;D
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Hahaha
made me laugh
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ok in winter but careful of legionaries in summer
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i have a mate who uses rain water he put a pair of tights over the downpipe with some di resin in there to clean it of as it comes very good idea imo
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i have a mate who uses rain water he put a pair of tights over the downpipe with some di resin in there to clean it of as it comes very good idea imo
Tights would filter out the stuff sitting on the surface of the water in the pic. The dirt suspended in the water (that you can see making the water brown against the TDS meter) would get straight through it.
Vin
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ideally you want whatever the rain hits to be clean same as the
gutter and downpipe then its going to drag very little with it
Hence the hard plastic on my roof which is kept clean and gutter
and down pipe kept clean as well.
im not sure I would bother if I was collecting off my house roof
it would be filthy before it hit the sponge and cloth.
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ideally you want whatever the rain hits to be clean same as the
gutter and downpipe then its going to drag very little with it
Hence the hard plastic on my roof which is kept clean and gutter
and down pipe kept clean as well.
im not sure I would bother if I was collecting off my house roof
it would be filthy before it hit the sponge and cloth.
Why bother with rainwater if you can use tap water?
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ideally you want whatever the rain hits to be clean same as the
gutter and downpipe then its going to drag very little with it
Hence the hard plastic on my roof which is kept clean and gutter
and down pipe kept clean as well.
im not sure I would bother if I was collecting off my house roof
it would be filthy before it hit the sponge and cloth.
Why bother with rainwater if you can use tap water?
::)roll ;DHere we go again
because when im using the rain water which averages around 11ppm
I don't have to bother blading any of the glass and with my tap water
that averages in the low thirties I have to blade from a quarter to third of the
properties I clean which I have said before.
so obviously it saves me some time and effort and best of all
Its free ;D
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i have a mate who uses rain water he put a pair of tights over the downpipe with some di resin in there to clean it of as it comes very good idea imo
I personally prefer stockings,over a nicely shaped leg
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ideally you want whatever the rain hits to be clean same as the
gutter and downpipe then its going to drag very little with it
Hence the hard plastic on my roof which is kept clean and gutter
and down pipe kept clean as well.
im not sure I would bother if I was collecting off my house roof
it would be filthy before it hit the sponge and cloth.
Why bother with rainwater if you can use tap water?
::)roll ;DHere we go again
because when im using the rain water which averages around 11ppm
I don't have to bother blading any of the glass and with my tap water
that averages in the low thirties I have to blade from a quarter to third of the
properties I clean which I have said before.
so obviously it saves me some time and effort and best of all
Its free ;D
If blading is such a problem, why not DI?
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ideally you want whatever the rain hits to be clean same as the
gutter and downpipe then its going to drag very little with it
Hence the hard plastic on my roof which is kept clean and gutter
and down pipe kept clean as well.
im not sure I would bother if I was collecting off my house roof
it would be filthy before it hit the sponge and cloth.
Why bother with rainwater if you can use tap water?
::)roll ;DHere we go again
because when im using the rain water which averages around 11ppm
I don't have to bother blading any of the glass and with my tap water
that averages in the low thirties I have to blade from a quarter to third of the
properties I clean which I have said before.
so obviously it saves me some time and effort and best of all
Its free ;D
If blading is such a problem, why not DI?
Its not but i will take any free advantage i can :)
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try a First Flush Diverter..... ;)
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http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/171467077981?_trksid=p2059210.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
I got this bargain for my downpipe :)
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http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/171467077981?_trksid=p2059210.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
I got this bargain for my downpipe :)
Cool will be buying a few of them :)