For those of us working out of a car, how do you carry your water?

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imported_topnotch

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I drive a midsize sedan, to carry my water I have an echo 4 gallon sprayer and prefill my steam machine and carpet steamer, but if I want to carry more water how would I go about this so I can complete more than 1 job w/o having to bother a customer for water. Any help is appreciated with this matter. I would be able to ask the customer for less and less, quick and easy wash has been a great help but I still find myself looking for a way to carry more water. TIA
 
I have a trailer with a water tank, but I see what you're talking about. What you'll need to get is water containers sold at your local auto parts store, Target, Walmart, Sam's Club, etc. These water containers can carry around 6.5 gallons of water. You should be able to find them in the section where they have the gasoline and kerosene containers. When I was strictly using QEW (still do use it during the winter months), I carried about three of those containers, so I had about 18-20 gallons of water with me which was more than enough for QEW washing, interior shampoo solution, and spare water just in case the vehicle was real dirty. :up
 
Oh yea, I forgot to mention to make sure you can carry around 50-60 pounds as this will be how much each one of these containers will weigh. I'm not assuming your strength, I'm just saying just in case you may have back problems, etc.
 
northern tool sulpy has tanks of differnt sizes and you can also get a small pump to move the water out of them.. I belove they go from 10 gal on up..
 
What I did was head to walmart, and they have these 5 gallon containers/tanks made for storing kerosene. They only cost like five bucks a peice, and one is plenty. Fits in the hatch of my focus without issues, and is plenty for washing and carpet extracting and whatever else I might need on a detail, even on an SUV.
 
holland_patrick said:
northern tool sulpy has tanks of differnt sizes and you can also get a small pump to move the water out of them.. I belove they go from 10 gal on up..
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yup, I got two 25 gallon water tanks from them but be careful which one's you buy.



1 gallon of water weighs in at about 8.33 pounds btw.
 
thanks for the info guys, I think carrying 5-10 gallons will be enough for me plus I don't want to weght down my car too much either. I am thinking of running to KMart or Walmart and getting 5 gallon container.
 
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