Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: bridger windows on October 22, 2009, 05:57:44 pm
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What do you lot say to customers when they complain/ask about the amount of water used and the environmental effect etc... I need a good answer to give them as I think this would put me on my back foot :-X
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tell them you use a rainwater harvesting system
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Sounds good to me! Cheers
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You could also tell them that you use the same amount of water on the average house as 1 flush of the toilet
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is that all it is!!? How many houses to a bath full do you think?
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You could also tell them that you use the same amount of water on the average house as 1 flush of the toilet
Works better and you do not have to lie! Seriously though, you will probably use about 20l a house, and your toilet has to be pretty antique to use 20l. Most modern toilets use a lot less.
is that all it is!!? How many houses to a bath full do you think?
Think it's about 80-100l.
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For the average 3 bed semi you will use around 10-15 litres on a maintenance clean, modern toilets use 8-13 litres per flush.
Tim,
Not lying just stretching the truth ;D
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just say its only collected rain water used so i think thats recycling
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What do you lot say to customers when they complain/ask about the amount of water used and the environmental effect etc... I need a good answer to give them as I think this would put me on my back foot :-X
Theres no environmental effect using pure water, it is after all water and it will dry up :)
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What do you lot say to customers when they complain/ask about the amount of water used and the environmental effect etc... I need a good answer to give them as I think this would put me on my back foot :-X
Theres no environmental effect using pure water, it is after all water and it will dry up :)
I don't think they are referring to the 'after' environmental impact but the impact it has already had to get to the end of your tap. If you CAN use rainwater then that would definitely be the best idea.
Has anyone any tips on this please?
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me: "it'll make its way back to the tap one day"
customers: ah! course
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Also no detergents used and no scrims cloths using litres of water in the washing machine.
As mentioned above "I get a lot of my water from my roof" works well.
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me: "it'll make its way back to the tap one day"
customers: ah! course
Best answer in my opinion, water evaporates/soaks into the ground, treated effluent/waste returned to the sea, in short cleaning with pure water has as much impact to the environment as rain does. you cant waste water its either in the sea, in the earth or in the sky falling on us.
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What do you lot say to customers when they complain/ask about the amount of water used and the environmental effect etc... I need a good answer to give them as I think this would put me on my back foot :-X
Theres no environmental effect using pure water, it is after all water and it will dry up :)
I beg to differ! :D
What about the litres upon litres of waste water that we use to produce pure water? All down the drain, straight to the wastewater treatment plant!! Not very environmentally friendly I say.
Customers would have a heartattack if we would say that for every 1000 litres used one thousand litres goes down the drain!
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Quite simply in reply to that ask if there is more or less water on the planet than pre WFP.??? There is no such thing as waste water the earth naturally recycles it, It does however sometimes replenish the wrong areas ;)
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when i was at school they took us to the waste water/ sewarage works, the end result was a glass of water for us to drink. no one wanted to taste it...
the guy downed the lot ;D
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Quite simply in reply to that ask if there is more or less water on the planet than pre WFP.??? There is no such thing as waste water the earth naturally recycles it, It does however sometimes replenish the wrong areas ;)
No waste water? So if you drain your bath with all the detergent and muck in it, it doesn't need to be cleaned? It comes clean out of the tap? Wow. ;D
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Yes it does need to be filtered through natural or artificial means ie treatment plant but it will always be there in some form or in transition.
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What about all the perfectly good water that I supply the water company from my roof every time it rains...I mean I'm not allowed to charge them for that.
Yet every house does the same but the water companies have no intention of treating it seperatly but it all goes into the same 'pool' for treating.
Cheers
Dave.
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For the average 3 bed semi you will use around 10-15 litres on a maintenance clean, modern toilets use 8-13 litres per flush.
Tim,
Not lying just stretching the truth ;D
thats just made my day ;D ;D
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for the waste water i have a bleeder irrigation hose running thourgh the raised bed in garden from b &q a fiver no more water from tap so i think i can be let off a bit
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What do you lot say to customers when they complain/ask about the amount of water used and the environmental effect etc... I need a good answer to give them as I think this would put me on my back foot :-X
Theres no environmental effect using pure water, it is after all water and it will dry up :)
I beg to differ! :D
What about the litres upon litres of waste water that we use to produce pure water? All down the drain, straight to the wastewater treatment plant!! Not very environmentally friendly I say.
Customers would have a heartattack if we would say that for every 1000 litres used one thousand litres goes down the drain!
The pro 6 im buying only rejects 20 % so 200l per 1000l thats another reason im buying this one. All good answers though!
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Isn't the pro 6 equipped with an extra DI for the waste, filtering some of the waste back into the inlet or tank?
If so, imagine all the DI resin that gets landfilled!
(just kidding just kidding, you can go on forever like that)
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tell her its your recycled bath water ;D
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What about all the perfectly good water that I supply the water company from my roof every time it rains...I mean I'm not allowed to charge them for that.
Yet every house does the same but the water companies have no intention of treating it seperatly but it all goes into the same 'pool' for treating.
Cheers
Dave.
Normally there is a foul water drain (bath, toilet water etc) and a surface water drain (rainwater).
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What do you lot say to customers when they complain/ask about the amount of water used and the environmental effect etc... I need a good answer to give them as I think this would put me on my back foot :-X
Theres no environmental effect using pure water, it is after all water and it will dry up :)
I beg to differ! :D
What about the litres upon litres of waste water that we use to produce pure water? All down the drain, straight to the wastewater treatment plant!! Not very environmentally friendly I say.
Customers would have a heartattack if we would say that for every 1000 litres used one thousand litres goes down the drain!
Your using the wrong filters then. My 4040 produces about 10/15% waste and thats with a input tds level of 280, and its over a year old.
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What do you lot say to customers when they complain/ask about the amount of water used and the environmental effect etc... I need a good answer to give them as I think this would put me on my back foot :-X
Theres no environmental effect using pure water, it is after all water and it will dry up :)
I beg to differ! :D
What about the litres upon litres of waste water that we use to produce pure water? All down the drain, straight to the wastewater treatment plant!! Not very environmentally friendly I say.
Customers would have a heartattack if we would say that for every 1000 litres used one thousand litres goes down the drain!
Your using the wrong filters then. My 4040 produces about 10/15% waste and thats with a input tds level of 280, and its over a year old.
Please, don't give people any wrong ideas about 4040's, the recommended waste level ratio is between 60/40 to 70/30 waste to pure. Anything lower then that and you run a very high risk of ruining your membrane. Talk to any supplier in the business and they will tell you exactly the same. Running it at that waste level means it's on the way out soon. I believe RO mans 4040's top the chart in waste, they recommend to run it at a 4 to 1 ratio.
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tell them you use a rainwater harvesting system
We all get our water through a rainwater harvesting system. The intervention of the water board, dams, water purification plants, distribution networks etc is just superfluous information and may be left out. ;D ;D ;D