Water Fed Brooms?

Albermarle

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.

Deionised water will be very familiar to anyone doing Chemistry O Level etc . It is a standard product used in experiments as it is more 100% water than tap water.  So deionised water is not some made up marketing name, like 'Pure Water' is .
The term Demineralised is another name for it.

Eldi_Dos

diveunderthebonnet said:

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.

When I did the course there were still some of that type of extinguisher in the network so we got shown them and had them explained to us, I think they were more aimed at fires in bins that type of scenario but they were deionised incase they came in contact with a electrcal source.

Eldi_Dos

Albermarle said:

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.

Deionised water will be very familiar to anyone doing Chemistry O Level etc . It is a standard product used in experiments as it is more 100% water than tap water.  So deionised water is not some made up marketing name, like 'Pure Water' is .
The term Demineralised is another name for it.

The point I was trying to get across is it is only deionised while it is in the container once it is out and in contact with the grime and stuff on the window it is no longer deionised.