Home use water distillers for detailing

For what purpose? It takes 5 hours to make less than a gallon...and you have to refill it manually so you can't just run it continuosly and get 4 gallons a day...so maybe if you were using it to make up some waterless wash, or perhaps rinseless....but it costs $489, and then the electricity to run it, and the maintenance...you can buy 489 gallons of distilled water at Walmart for that...
 
im actually, just getting a 55 gallon water drum ($15 on craigslist) and I have collected about six 5 gallon water bottles which ill fill for a dollar each and then pour into the 55 gallon drum. its a bit of work, but the refill station is only 2 blocks away and in the long run its a much cheaper route to have clean water for use all the time
 
Cruzscarwash said:
im actually, just getting a 55 gallon water drum ($15 on craigslist) and I have collected about six 5 gallon water bottles which ill fill for a dollar each and then pour into the 55 gallon drum. its a bit of work, but the refill station is only 2 blocks away and in the long run its a much cheaper route to have clean water for use all the time
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Be careful with that, the distilled water has no chlorine and it will grow algae and other things inside that drum. Even tap water will grow stuff after a while.
 
Setec Astronomy said:
Be careful with that, the distilled water has no chlorine and it will grow algae and other things inside that drum. Even tap water will grow stuff after a while.
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What kind of water has chlorine in it? I've heard of fluoride, but not chlorine.


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Eldorado2k said:
What kind of water has chlorine in it? I've heard of fluoride, but not chlorine.
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Very little of the public water supply is fluoridated, however 100% of public water supply is chlorinated. That's what makes us a developed country, instead of a third-world country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/####/Water_chlorination

I guess from your perspective this is the government meddling in our lives and wasting our tax dollars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/####/Safe_Drinking_Water_Act
 
For the cost of that unit I'd look into a dedicated softner/filtration system for your house or at the very least a specific area of the home.
 
Setec Astronomy said:
Very little of the public water supply is fluoridated, however 100% of public water supply is chlorinated. That's what makes us a developed country, instead of a third-world country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/####/Water_chlorination

I guess from your perspective this is the government meddling in our lives and wasting our tax dollars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/####/Safe_Drinking_Water_Act
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You're still on that? I just asked because I thought chlorine was real bad for the body to consume. I know a girl who passed away due to the constant exposure to the chlorine in her swimming pool.


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Eldorado2k said:
I just asked because I thought chlorine was real bad for the body to consume. I know a girl who passed away due to the constant exposure to the chlorine in her swimming pool.
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Really? Well, hopefully she wasn't drinking the water out of her pool. Are all those olympic swimmers that train all the time on the endangered species list? As Renny Doyle warns us, if it's on you, it's in you.

Lots of nasty products have chlorine in them...like chlorine bleach, or as it's usually referred to, bleach, drain cleaner, etc. And we come into contact every day with highly toxic substances, which fortunately don't kill us in the small quantities we're exposed (at least we hope they're not killing us). Things like chlorine in the water, pesticide residues on food, chemotherapy, etc.
 
Setec Astronomy said:
Really? Well, hopefully she wasn't drinking the water out of her pool. Are all those olympic swimmers that train all the time on the endangered species list?
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No, she was a really smart girl.. Some people are more sensitive to certain chemicals than others.



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Eldorado2k said:
No, she was a really smart girl.. Some people are more sensitive to certain chemicals than others.
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Which is a good cautionary tale for all the things we are exposed to in life and as detailers, and also a good example about how we shouldn't assume that noise, allergen, chemical exposure is tolerated by all people in the same way, and a good advertisement for a detailer's PPE.
 
I use the water out of the dehumidifier in my basement. 2 gallons at a time that would otherwise go to waste.


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