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Pressure washer question
This topic is of great interest to me as I am scheming on a way to run my pressure washer from a standing water tank.
My problem is that my ground water is very hard.... 38 grains hard. If I use it straight it leaves horrible water spots.
If I wash the cars or tractor with softened water the volume of sodium in the water is so great (due to the initial hardness)that it still leaves a lot of spots.
My plan is to buy another low volume Reverse Osmosis system like the one under the kitchen sink that makes our drinking and cooking water.
I will let it fill a 250 gallon standing water tank in the garage and use that water to wash or maybe just rinse off the cars and other equipment.
The tank, along with a high volume 12 volt RV type water pump and a battery, will also serve as an emergency water supply for the house during the initial stages of a power failure.
I have not yet figured out if the proposed RV water pump will produce enough volume to run the pressure washer. If not I guess I will just use the system as a final rinse.
I have to do something different with the pressure washer feed. My untreated water seems to be scaling up the internals of the pump resulting in poor performance.
BTW... speaking of water storage.... anybody know what I can add to my remote drip water irrigation tank that will keep down the algae growth and still be safe for plants??
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I am mostly interested in being able to flush the toilets without having to fire up a 10KW genset for such a small chore.
The main use will be keeping cars clean. My wife hates it when I leave spots all over her car.
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OK... in order:
Running the well pump from an inverter: The sucker is 325 feet down and has lots of ponies. Near as I can measure, takes about 7kw to kick it into action. That was the determining factor for selecting a 10kw PTO generator.
Silver car: that would be the wifes Camry.
The pile of bricks being put to a new use: See above reference to WIFE, (not to mention the other females in the household).
Attic: wish I had one. A basement would be nice also. I live in the worlds biggest mine shack, slab on grade, vaulted ceilings and exposed beams through-out.
And I forgot to mention.... it is a 15 mile round trip to the car wash.
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We may live in the boonies, but she has maintained some of her standards.
I am thinking I might have to resort to tiny amounts of chlorine (Bleach) to keep my water tanks from clogging up with algae.
Anybody out there have a reference as to the proper mixture rate?
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Good info.... the usage is to drip irrigate on far corners of my land.
I don't want to hurt the plants... tomatoes in this case.... and I leave the tanks in place for a week or longer. After a couple of days the algae plugs up the tiny orifice in the control drip valve.
So the balance point is to use just enough to keep the green goop under control but hopefully not poison the fruit.
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