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How do I know I'm using the best water I can get at the moment? I was told by land lady I'm on well water but I'm not 100% sure.
And if I am on well water is that as good as I can get without spending a lot?
If not what are some cheaper ways of getting better water from what I have?
How do I find out how good my water is?

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Good for what? For drinking? For washing clothes? For washing cars?

Are you talking about mineral content, chemical content, bacterial content? Well water could be the best or the worst of any of those criteria, it depends where your well is.
 
hey there guys...i am in the process of putting together budget and whatnot for hopefully launching into my mobile detailing business next year. things have not come together as quickly as id hope. BUT, doing the mobile type business, is it an OK thing to use the customers water of have a water tank with you in a truck? please let me know. thanks
 
Your local water authority should be able to tell you what type of water you have as well as anything else. Most towns and/or cities have them.

In general, well water tends to be hard and requires filtration. A whole hour filter would run you anywhere from $100 to $1000 depending on what you want to achieve. For me, a hobbyist, I am in the low end and enjoying it.
 
I am wanting to purify the water for washing cars..
I was hoping to maybe buy something from home depot or something.
I read just now that hard water is not filtered in most filters u need something like a water softener or something?
And with well water is the only way to find out What is in the water that I need to filter out going to ask some one from the city or county?

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mrwood1283 said:
hey there guys...i am in the process of putting together budget and whatnot for hopefully launching into my mobile detailing business next year. things have not come together as quickly as id hope. BUT, doing the mobile type business, is it an OK thing to use the customers water of have a water tank with you in a truck? please let me know. thanks
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some don't mind if u use their water or electricity , some do . lets say no one is home and the car is outside in driveway or in a parking lot . u may not even have access to their water/ elec then anyways ? being mobile u best have your own generator-invertor , water tank . just for that purpose in case u can't use theirs . what r u gonna do then if u don't have access to it , come another day ? maybe u can offer rinseless washes , ya u still need water but u not hosing a vehicle down ?
just my 2 cents
 
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u can pickup a water test kit at most hardware stores . do some Internet searching on your town-city , that info should be public . if u can dry u vehicles fast enough u should be ok I would think ? other than that u will need some type of water filter system . I use a cr spotless and I also use ro water .
 
Yea I'm gonna get a test in the morning what are the things I really need to look and test for? The things that actually create the spots?

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akj said:
Yea I'm gonna get a test in the morning what are the things I really need to look and test for? The things that actually create the spots?
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Your water quality test kit will usually have a water hardness test and will give you the ranges for what is hard and soft. If you have a very sophisticated test kit it may differentiate between the most common hard water ions, which are calcium and magnesium.

These are ions which means the minerals are dissolved in the water and can't be filtered out (it would be like trying to filter the salt out of salt water). The method of removal is usually ion exchange or ion removal, which are chemical processes. A water softener will exchange the hardness ions for sodium or potassium, so the "soft" water will still have the same amount of TDS (total dissolved solids), only those solids won't create permanent etching like the calcium and magnesium will. Ion removal (deionization) is done by units like the CRSpotless sold here at Autogeek, and will reduce the TDS to zero. However, the regeneration process for a deionizer (for continued performance) is much more complicated than for a softener.
 
If you're on a private well I've used Ward Labs in Nebraska (google 'em) for testing. They are fast, accurate and cheaper than most places. Well water can be all over the map from great to terrible.
For city water you should be able to get a report from the town or water district for free but it will be averaged levels over several months and often isn't very detailed.
 
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