[Bazzy1999]

This might be a silly idea but to me it sounds good and saves a lot of water..
To start with you will need 2 tanks.. 1 tank with ..lets say 500L of tap water or RO waste and a 150L with Pure water…
Most of the windows i clean are 4 to 8 weekly so just getting them wet and washing them down with the crap water then rinse with pure should be ok…abit like doing a conservatory roof.

Just an idea..

Bazz…

[paul saunders]

Good idea, but how long will it take to flush out 100 mtr of crap water out of your hose so that you can rinse with pure water. :

[NWH]

What a silly idea.

[chrismroberts]

Good idea, but how long will it take to flush out 100 mtr of crap water out of your hose so that you can rinse with pure water. :

Yeh, I was thinking... you'd need two pumps and two reels, one for tap and one for pure....?

[Gerry Styles]

If you dont' have time to fix it in the beginning how will you find time to do the repairs?

[Bazzy1999]

What a silly idea.

But is it?

[alanwilson]

sorry baz but it is mate - you need 2 hoses, dragging them around all day.

2 tanks as well - u need a bigger van then - just get a larger tank, more di water and prob solved.

its a no brainer

[mark dew]

also the price of water is only £1 for 1k litres. Your productivity per hour will go down much more than that with the time it takes to use both.
Better to water the garden with the waste and spend a couple of quid per day on making an extra £30.

[alanwilson]

or collect rainwater.

if you're not on a meter just chuck the waste down the drain

[Bazzy1999]

Why do i bother...

[alanwilson]

well why are you so concerned with saving water?

nearly half of all the water treated in the UK is lost through broken pipes - you trying to save a few litres here and there (whilst making life difficult for yourself) isn't going to make any difference

[Bazzy1999]

well why are you so concerned with saving water?

nearly half of all the water treated in the UK is lost through broken pipes - you trying to save a few litres here and there (whilst making life difficult for yourself) isn't going to make any difference

You have no idea what im on about.... apart from one thing..saving water, the pure type..

Bazz...

[alanwilson]

well saving pure water then - saving money in filters and resin etc - its so minimal.

[michael papworth]

And the other point is that it is the purity of the water that actually makes it so effective at cleaning. Using ordinary water simply won't get the windows as clean as quickly.

Try washing bird poo away with tap water! It takes ages. Pure water just melts the stuff away.

[Bazzy1999]

Dont worry ill keep my little secret to myself    ...
It works very well for me and saves me loads of pure water..

Bazz...

[chrismroberts]

And the other point is that it is the purity of the water that actually makes it so effective at cleaning. Using ordinary water simply won't get the windows as clean as quickly.

Try washing bird poo away with tap water! It takes ages. Pure water just melts the stuff away.

Aye, I was thinking of bird poo too.. never tried to clear it with tap water, but doubt itd be as effective! Isn't it the purity of the water that makes it a good cleaning agent?

[alanwilson]

ok bazzy - don't huff!

well go on and tell us - if it works then I'm more than happy to be proved wrong.

[Bazzy1999]

Try washing bird poo away with tap water! It takes ages. Pure water just melts the stuff away.

Pure water dont melt bird poo away... unless its newish bird poo

[Bazzy1999]

ok bazzy - don't huff!

well go on and tell us - if it works then I'm more than happy to be proved wrong.

Im not in a huff..

[michael papworth]

Although I haven't tried this yet, I wonder if using a trigger might not be a far more effective way of saving water.

The idea is to wet the window and then turn the water off and give a little scrub, soak, scrub, soak, scrub as much as may be needed and then rinse.

The idea being to allow both the purity of the water and the agitation of the brush both do their fair share of the work. I'm convinced that probably most of the torrents of water I use isn't doing very much good. Maybe an occasional trickle of water and a scrub would be more effective at washing and then just a quick torrent for rinsing.

I've certainly used this technique on tenacious bird poo. I won't leave 2 litres of water per minute flowing while I'm scrubbing a tiny bit of baked-on mucus. It's a quick blast, then a scrub, then a blast and scrub until it's gone.

Also do the same on the bottoms of frames where there's green alge and muck trapped on the little horizontal line where the beading meets the frame and in the sharp lower corners. This needs agitation more than it needs water. Makes sense to me to turn off the water whilst doing the scrubbing.