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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: COLIN BRIGHT on April 25, 2015, 01:43:45 pm

Title: Cleaning out fresh water tank
Post by: COLIN BRIGHT on April 25, 2015, 01:43:45 pm

I have a truckmount and the fresh water tank tends to get this gung in it now and then, especially in the summer, I do empty it and jet wash the best I can but because the access is only a small hole at the top it is difficult to properly get to the crud stuck to the inside of the tank, any thoughts?

Title: Re: Cleaning out fresh water tank
Post by: COLIN BRIGHT on April 26, 2015, 04:13:56 pm

Anyone

Title: Re: Cleaning out fresh water tank
Post by: Mike Halliday on April 26, 2015, 04:20:47 pm

I get an algi slime in my pressure washer bowser during summer which clogs the filters if I don't keep on top of it.

I put bleach in the tank and this kills it, you could do this but make sure you rinse out the tank when you've done it.

Title: Re: Cleaning out fresh water tank
Post by: COLIN BRIGHT on April 26, 2015, 08:28:11 pm

thanks mike, hopefully one of the suppliers will have a solution, I have used the tank busters in the waste tank from restormate, don't know if they are just an odour/bactiria killer

Title: Re: Cleaning out fresh water tank
Post by: Buckland on April 28, 2015, 09:37:10 am

colin - I just was installing a prochem fresh tank in van recently - little flecks of some sort of mould all over it and its a bugger of a job to reach all the corners - you need a soft brush and a long handle - I used bleach as well and works fine - strangely I had a customer who insisted I put some drops of this expensive lavender essence and just steam clean with that - a whole house in posh area of winchester - worked fine as carpets not that bad - that was months ago and even after cleaning it out with bleach I can STILL smell the lavender.