[skillwizz]

Hi all, What's the highest TDS meter reading that you have cleaned with? A mate of mine says his was 30ppm.I regularly clean up to 10ppm but never above.(and never had any complaints!).Another mate who lives down south(i'm up in scotland)says that his tap water at home only reads 5ppm! correct me if i'm wrong but wouldn't he be able to clean without resin or filters etc? just pumping his tap water?

Cheers George.

[rg1]

Most araes 'Down South' have hard water so I would think that a tap water reading of 5ppm is a slight exageration.

[paulben]

when I brought my system was told its ok up to 30ppm but i never go above 8 ppm

[Smudger]

Been ok at 16 ppm - but only did it for a couple of days at that


Darran

[skillwizz]

rg1
He lives down in West Yorks, so a soft water area.

...Yorkshire born
   Yorkshire bread
   Strong in the arm......

...what's the last line again??

[rg1]

rg1
He lives down in West Yorks, so a soft water area.

...Yorkshire born
   Yorkshire bread
   Strong in the arm......

...what's the last line again??

Useless in bed??

When you said down south i thought you meant further than Yorks.

[michael papworth]

rg1
He lives down in West Yorks, so a soft water area.

...Yorkshire born
   Yorkshire bread
   Strong in the arm......

...what's the last line again??

Yorkshire born
Yorkshire bred
Strong in th'arm ...


... Crap in t'bed.

I think he meant 5 pumps per minute not 5 parts per million.

[evil genius]

im in warwickshire and our tap water dodges between 300ppm and 400ppm.
runs through the RO and 50psim and come out between 5ppm and 9ppm.
never had any problems with finish of the glass using the water 9ppm.

ian

[matt]

i checked mine yesterday

now i worked this week with it

it was 037 

when i checked to see why the flow was slow from the RO, it turned out the waste pipe was trapped against a downpipe and the wheelie bin  : so the waste wasnt flowing that well for the last week

i did the insides of this commercial job aswell and they dried ok, nothing to worry about

[Sapphire Window Cleaning]

I was told, TDS reading of 020 will dry ALMOST perfect (meaning the marks left behind are so faint they are invisible to the naked eye)
I have never used water above 005 PPM



Matt

[bee-klean]

usd water at 86ppm did not get any complaints,i find 20ppm gives best results

[Sapphire Window Cleaning]

usd water at 86ppm did not get any complaints,i find 20ppm gives best results

lol 000 gives the best result

[Wickerman]

tap water in Glasgow 30ppm and I always work at 0ppm.  It's really good in a single malt at the end of the week

[matt]

usd water at 86ppm did not get any complaints,i find 20ppm gives best results

lol 000 gives the best result

i see no difference in 000 or 010 TDS

from your other post, it seems 020 will be the same aswell, infact my 037 this week was fine

I was told, TDS reading of 020 will dry ALMOST perfect (meaning the marks left behind are so faint they are invisible to the naked eye)
I have never used water above 005 PPM



Matt

it seems alot of people are very hung up about 000 TDS when in practise its not needed

[stevieg]

Regularly 30 odd,up to 46 for a while,just rinse a bit more!!!

[ccmids]

i have never used above 001, soon as it gets above i change both filters then the resin.

[michael papworth]

Maybe no difference in drying, but what about cleaning power?

It's the purity of the water that makes it such a good solvent. Is water at, say, 010 noticeably less effective that water at 000?

Anyone notice a difference?

I can't really say. I use raw rainwater and it works just fine. I haven't measured the tds for about a year now.

[euan78]

  i live in stirling scotland and got a demo from tucker about a year and a half ago my reading was 24 and the guy coulndt beleive it he said it was the lowest hed seen have any you guys got a reading that low 

[formb]

I'm in Aberdeenshire, next to the biggest granite quarry in the country (Granite will not dissolve so our water is pretty pure). Our tap is rarely above 50 ppm. I recon your mate is full of Tosh, 5ppm indeed?

Never use your system above 0. If you do you run the risk of starting a job at 1 then by the time you are done it has shot up, meaning you have to do the whole job again, or worse, not noticing and getting some silly old bint phoning you up going mental.

What we do to save resin is have 2 D.I vessels in series, as soon as you get a reading of 1 move the last bottle back to nearest the tank and replace the resin in the other putting it nearest the tap.

[dazmond]

ive just tested my water straight from my tap in my flat and its 27tds!can it change regularly?as it was 70tds before xmas!as most of u know ive not gone wfp yet.could i clean with 27tds without resin then?just tap water?