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Title: rinse aid in water
Post by: martindrz400 on November 07, 2007, 08:59:48 pm
does anyone use rinse aid in there water i tried a small amount in my trolley today and must say the water dried alot better
Title: Re: rinse aid in water
Post by: Nathanael Jones on November 07, 2007, 09:13:26 pm
I've heard this before. What brand did you use?
Title: Re: rinse aid in water
Post by: NWH on November 07, 2007, 09:22:43 pm
I heard of this and added it to my water when working trad way,at first it looked like it was doing a good job but my god when the sun came out it was almost laughable,don`t bother.
Title: Re: rinse aid in water
Post by: D.Salkeld_Ltd on November 07, 2007, 09:25:38 pm
Hi All,

Interesting post :-\ :-\

Did a Google serch and found this

http://www.goodnessdirect.co.uk/cgi-local/frameset/detail/967741.html

Might take a look in Tesco's at the weekend and try some ???

David
Title: Re: rinse aid in water
Post by: martindrz400 on November 07, 2007, 09:40:02 pm
wife uses it in dishwasher only a very small amount not for trad as i doesnt mix with soap nwh
Title: Re: rinse aid in water
Post by: Village Gleam on November 07, 2007, 09:50:59 pm
I've posted about his a few time martin. In theory if this was added to ordinary water it should work.
Now that I have a hot system, the addition of rinse aid would be  very similar to a dishwasher
Title: Re: rinse aid in water
Post by: Davew on November 08, 2007, 04:07:30 pm
be brilliant if it worked - chuck the ro unit away, bin the holding tank thats cluttering my garage and massive reduction in water being used. I think the big manufaturers might be shaking in their boots.







...................... or maybe not.
Title: Re: rinse aid in water
Post by: Nathanael Jones on November 08, 2007, 05:07:45 pm
I doubt it'd be good enough to let you use plain tap water,.. but if it helped with those problem windows it would be a very useful thing.
Title: Re: rinse aid in water
Post by: M & C Window Cleaning on November 08, 2007, 05:14:06 pm
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does anyone use rinse aid in there water i tried a small amount in my trolley today and must say the water dried alot better

Do you mean better or quicker? I can't see how it could dry better than pure water. I always thought it was difficult to beat a blade for finish until I used pure water. I had another custy say yesterday, "my windows have never looked so good." This from a finicky one with chalky frames.  
Title: Re: rinse aid in water
Post by: dai on November 08, 2007, 09:18:43 pm
I have used rinse aid mixed with fairy as a trad solution for years, did a post on here about it. I love the stuff, plenty of slide without all the suds. This is a great cleaning solution, when used with all in one single pass tools like the Wagtail or backflip.
Wouldn't want to chance putting it in my WFP system though.
 Just try putting it into a bucket of pure water, and then check the TDS reading. If is still o ppm, then it could be used. Dai
Title: Re: rinse aid in water
Post by: creweexcel on November 09, 2007, 07:55:17 am
if using in bucket what propertion to water?
Title: Re: rinse aid in water
Post by: Rob_B on November 09, 2007, 04:57:28 pm
if using in bucket what propertion to water?

It must only be drops. Our dishwasher only took a small amount of rinse aid (around 20ml)and used to last weeks.
Title: Re: rinse aid in water
Post by: dai on November 09, 2007, 09:08:46 pm
I use it in equal amounts to washing up liquid. Dai