Water Fed Brooms?

Spender£

Is it possible to buy one of those water fed Brooms to clean windows and gutters and connect to the tap.
A window cleaner told me you have to connect it to a purified water tank or you will get streaky windows from using just tap water.
Is this true, I just don't want to waste money.

XzavierWalnut

I have one and you do get streaky windows with tap water.

Eldi_Dos

Suppose that depends on where you are in the country and the type of water on tap.
In previous property I just hosed down windows after I had washed them and after a good rinse  let them dry naturally and never had any problems with streaks.I did prefer to do it when there was a bit of breeze so they would dry quicker.

badmemory

Personally I would rather the streaks than the bird muck that seems to arrive in less than 2 minutes after the windows are washed.

twopenny

Have you upset any birds Bad memory?
You know seagulls and crows have a 9yr memory of faces? 🙂

I did ask a window cleaner that uses a bucket and he said the secret of streak free was the soft squeegee. 
I'm still looking for one like his.

Albermarle

I live in a hard water area and if I wash my car , there are water marks everywhere. Takes longer to get rid of these than the actual car wash.

p00hsticks

Spender£ said:

Is it possible to buy one of those water fed Brooms to clean windows and gutters and connect to the tap.
A window cleaner told me you have to connect it to a purified water tank or you will get streaky windows from using just tap water.
Is this true, I just don't want to waste money.

My mother has a window cleaner and they don't use plain tap water,  they pump it from a special tank in the van. I think they add something to it to stop it leaving streak marks. 

Albermarle

p00hsticks said:

Spender£ said:

Is it possible to buy one of those water fed Brooms to clean windows and gutters and connect to the tap.
A window cleaner told me you have to connect it to a purified water tank or you will get streaky windows from using just tap water.
Is this true, I just don't want to waste money.

My mother has a window cleaner and they don't use plain tap water,  they pump it from a special tank in the van. I think they add something to it to stop it leaving streak marks. 

They use deionised water, which has had  the minerals removed . It has to be bought like that, you can not just add something to tap water.
Our window cleaner does the same, and the results are OK but not perfect.

Rodders53

Albermarle said:

They use deionised water, which has had  the minerals removed . It has to be bought like that, you can not just add something to tap water.
Our window cleaner does the same, and the results are OK but not perfect.

Most will filter their own tap water I believe as it's cheaper than buying and transporting in the quantities needed.  Certainly my one in Lowestoft did and had a big tank plus DC pump in the van.

Introduction to Pure Water Window Cleaning - Window Cleaning Warehouse Ltd

Imperfect cleaning will likely be down to imperfect technique as much as anything else.  It needs quite a lot of the pure water to be used.

Eldi_Dos

Albermarle said:

p00hsticks said:

Spender£ said:

Is it possible to buy one of those water fed Brooms to clean windows and gutters and connect to the tap.
A window cleaner told me you have to connect it to a purified water tank or you will get streaky windows from using just tap water.
Is this true, I just don't want to waste money.

My mother has a window cleaner and they don't use plain tap water,  they pump it from a special tank in the van. I think they add something to it to stop it leaving streak marks. 

They use deionised water, which has had  the minerals removed . It has to be bought like that, you can not just add something to tap water.
Our window cleaner does the same, and the results are OK but not perfect.

I have always been a bit sceptical about the claims for deionised water for cleaning windows.

LUL used to have deionised water fire extinguishers which were meant to protect from electric current travelling up the water stream if it came into contact with live electrical equipment but the instructors made the point that as soon as the deionised water touched anything it was "ionised" again and to be treated with great caution.

So as I say always sceptical about claims made for it. The explanation for Pure water seems more believeable to me, in that they are rinsing with pure water once dirt and debris have been cleaned off.

diveunderthebonnet

Eldi_Dos said:

Albermarle said:

p00hsticks said:

Spender£ said:

Is it possible to buy one of those water fed Brooms to clean windows and gutters and connect to the tap.
A window cleaner told me you have to connect it to a purified water tank or you will get streaky windows from using just tap water.
Is this true, I just don't want to waste money.

My mother has a window cleaner and they don't use plain tap water,  they pump it from a special tank in the van. I think they add something to it to stop it leaving streak marks. 

They use deionised water, which has had  the minerals removed . It has to be bought like that, you can not just add something to tap water.
Our window cleaner does the same, and the results are OK but not perfect.

I have always been a bit sceptical about the claims for deionised water for cleaning windows.

LUL used to have deionised water fire extinguishers which were meant to protect from electric current travelling up the water stream if it came into contact with live electrical equipment but the instructors made the point that as soon as the deionised water touched anything it was "ionised" again and to be treated with great caution.

So as I say always sceptical about claims made for it. The explanation for Pure water seems more believeable to me, in that they are rinsing with pure water once dirt and debris have been cleaned off.

I thought you were not supposed to use water type extinguishers on or near electrics ,dry powder , and CO2 are recommended for electrical fires.