Water from Dehumidifier and Detailing

**Swanicyouth** · 05-28-2016, 05:08 PM

So, my basement is huge. Maybe 2000 sq ft....Around these parts, if you don`t have a dehumidifier in your basement in the summer - everything down there turns to mold.

I just picked up a 70 qt dehumidifier today. Since the humidity in my basement is around 80% - this thing is pulling a ton of water out of the air.

I`m just wondering - this water should be ion free... Correct? So, theoretically, since the catch bucket is new and clean - I should be saving this water to mix detailing chemicals? Free DI water???

**Ronkh** · 05-28-2016, 05:55 PM

It`s great water. Used to use it all the time.

Distilled

**House of Wax** · 05-29-2016, 01:57 AM

Huh, great idea. I would`ve never thought about that

**Don** · 05-29-2016, 07:39 AM

It`s practically distilled water, my grandmother used it in her washer to do her laundry.

**Billy Jack** · 05-29-2016, 08:08 AM

I have one in my garage. When the collection jug fills up, I line a funnel with a few layers of cotton cloth as a filter and dump it into jugs. It`s all I use for mixing detailing chemicals. Seems to work fine and the price is right.

Bill

**Pats300zx** · 05-29-2016, 09:54 AM

Originally Posted by Billy Jack

I have one in my garage. When the collection jug fills up, I line a funnel with a few layers of cotton cloth as a filter and dump it into jugs. It`s all I use for mixing detailing chemicals. Seems to work fine and the price is right.

Bill

Ha ha. I do the same thing !!!!

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**rlmccarty2000** · 10-26-2019, 09:30 AM

Bumping up an old thread.

I just bought a new 70 pint dehumidifier for my new house and I was wondering if anyone had any problems using the water for mixing detailing chemicals? We have had some abnormally humid weather in my area and I figured a dehumidifier would be just the thing to fight it. Now I want to use all the gallons of water this thing is producing. Would it be good for rinseless/waterless washing?

**Setec Astronomy** · 10-26-2019, 10:22 AM

It should be great for rinseless/waterless. Just a couple of things to keep in mind, it may have some dust in it from the air, which shouldn`t be a big deal. The other thing is that it`s not going to have any chlorine in it like tap water does, so if you`re mixing up some waterless wash that`s going to stay in the bottle for a while, it may be more likely to grow stuff. I know even using tap water my UWW tends to get pretty funky smelling if I don`t use it up fast enough.

**Accumulator** · 10-26-2019, 11:47 AM

We run a few of `em year-round...basement, subbasement, shop...the reservoirs never stay clean enough for me to use that water for such stuff and I have some of them running discharge hoses into floordrains anyhow. I suppose I could clean them out regularly or something, but I`m not gonna bother, especially with Distilled Water going for ~75¢/gallon.