[cbcs]

As mentioned on another forum, I am thinking of selling Pure Water to fellow window cleaners that need it but can't produce their own or they use R/O and run out I'd be available to provide them with a service. Your thoughts please? Would I need a licence to sell it? What sort of prices would you pay? I know I used to help a mate out, but never charged him.

[Sir Squeaky]

I buy mine at £5 per week.

That more than pays for water production, so he gets it free.

[cbcs]

How many litres is that for roughly? Is it DI or RO?

[geefree]

You would need a good customer base for it to be worth your while Chris,

But why not?.... Get a few, and a few more..and its up and running.

Has anyone else tried this on here.

as an add on?

[sageorgeta]

I dont sell to other wc's but i do sell a lot to two large engineering companies that use the water in their cnc jet cutters.

[Sir Squeaky]

How many litres is that for roughly? Is it DI or RO?

As far as I know it's been through both.

How many litres?
As much as I want. Sometimes 150L top-up, sometimes 350L.

[Ian_Giles]

I may get a fiver a week for the water that Rog uses, and that fiver will probably cover the resin costs and filter costs and go a little way to covering membrane replacements (but only a little).
What it doesn't cover is the time taken to do all the various bits of maintenance, or those times when I've enough water for myself but because of a glitch in the system I've got to lose an hour of work time first thing in the morning to rectify it as I have to do my best to ensure there is water there for Squeaky.
Or the time I had a major glitch that cost me 2 days lost income + cost of various parts!
Fortunately I'm not on a meter else Squeaks would most certainly have to pay more for his water.

I don't really know what sort of a market there would really be for selling pure water, I can't imagine you would need a licence...though if the water board knew about it I'm sure they would want their pound of flesh, though I have no idea how commercial metering charges would differ from domestic ones.

If you were to sell it to other window cleaners you sure as hell couldn't sell it to them for as little as a pound a day!! I'm not looking to make anything out of it, just covering my costs really, but if you are looking to gear up to sell it to other window cleaners then you are also going to want some profit in there.

I don't think that for the time effort and costs involved it would be much of a money spinner...

Ian

[bonsey]

an aquarium shop near me sells it for 10p a litre   
on the market side of it just have to know who needs it  dentists use it

[baldeagle]

Plenty of profit if you can flog it off in small containers for battery top up, and for steam irons.
But then that is another market, and a whole lot of more canvassing etc

Baldeagle

[biggs]

try ethiopia or the sahara there will be a market for it there

[AJ]

how much would you NEED to charge? how many litres would you produce and how many would you need to sell per day?
what costs cover maintenance of the system, water bills etc also would you need someone to work in the yard to dispense the water to your customers.
if you need to cover £100 per day for instance.
I have given this some thought myself, but I am still having trouble working it out to be viable. I think it would be different if you had a janitorial supplies shop already set up, so staffing, premises, advertising etc isn't an issue, but to set it up on its own just from your garage and word of mouth could be quite a different thing. there is a place near me that sells it as part of a window cleaning shop set up, but I personally have only used it twice in 4 years.
good luck if you do work it out.