[Granny]

Moved house to hard water area about 300 TDS.
Got "first" first clean this week.
Last location was about 80 / 100.
I used to wash down with outside tap first to flush the crud off.
Wondering now if I could do the same?
Any run off from the top is now going to be more visible, or I wait longer to be sure.
How do you in hard water areas get on?
Just use the pure  probably safest?

[Smudger]

Just pure on windows - simple really

Darran

[Stoots]

what ?

 

Just clean it with pure and stop being tight

[dazmond]

Hot pure water and maybe some virosol if particularly dirty....

Tap water?no way.....they mix the tap water with bore hole water where I work and it can be chalky as hell at times....

[zesty]

TDS well over 400 here, often use customers tap to clean filthy windows and conny roofs etc, then use the pure to go round them after for rinse and minor scrub.

Never had a problem, just don’t let them dry after using the hard water for too long.
 
I also use customers taps for gutter and facias cleaning.

Makes sense to me, I don’t like to be using pure when I don’t need to, obviously if it’s a first clean that’s not too bad, then pure water from the start, but if it’s absolutely filthy, woth filthy sills and frames as well, then the customers tap is my go to 
 

[Ggh]

You need an effective RO that means you can liberally splash the pure about. A 450 gpd from daqua would reign in your pure water stinginess.

[Granny]

You need an effective RO that means you can liberally splash the pure about. A 450 gpd from daqua would reign in your pure water stinginess.

It's not all about being stingy as you say.
I only have a 250 litre tank so it makes sense to me to use the tap plus you get a better flow and pressure for cleaning off long standing dirt.

[dazmond]

You need an effective RO that means you can liberally splash the pure about. A 450 gpd from daqua would reign in your pure water stinginess.

It's not all about being stingy as you say.
I only have a 250 litre tank so it makes sense to me to use the tap plus you get a better flow and pressure for cleaning off long standing dirt.

Your wasting time messing about using customers outside taps...obviously the answer is a bigger tank...a 500L tank is ideal for me for 5 or 6 hours work per day...

[Granny]

Why when I've reached retirement age and for two short days a week?

[robbo333]

If it were me, I'd carry a few extra 25L barrels and turn my flow up.

Or, just carry on doing what you're doing, should be ok with harder water, just check the job when you're finished.

[Stoots]

Why when I've reached retirement age and for two short days a week?

You could get a second hand bigger tank for probably £100 off ebay and could sell yours for a similar price.....

It would cost you next to nothing to upgrade. 250l wouldn't last me a morning I pee more than that during the day.

[dazmond]

Why when I've reached retirement age and for two short days a week?

Each to their own but clearly a 250L tank is not large enough for your needs if you have to resort to using customers outside taps....personally I think it's unprofessional too...

[deeege]

Why when I've reached retirement age and for two short days a week?

If you’ve reached retirement age then working smarter is even more important then. All that shifting reels in and out of vans won’t be doing your back much good.

Also how many ‘first cleans’ are you doing when you only work 2 days per week? Surely those days are full already? Makes no sense to me.

[james peters]

see. this ties in with soupys thread about charging for first cleans .

Its not just about time .
first cleans eat up water so we have to charge accordingly