How do you get WATER?

I think as long as the water you use is not hard you will be fine but it wouldn't hurt to go the extra mile and get distilled. Most shops will run there water through water softners. For someone who doesn't do 20 cars a day I would probably recommend something small. I believe Griots Garage sells a small one you can hook up directly to where you connect the water hose.
 
I'm sure you could find something of the same quality for a more reasonable price however. Something like that would work perfect though.
 
Thanks, I have a 60 gallon water tank and I only plan on doing 2 to 4 cars a week. Do you recommend I fill a 60 gallon tank with distilled water or fill it from my hose at the house. If anyone has done it from home any idea what that the additonal cost to fill a 60 gallon tnak. Thanks.
 
When I did wash at home until that was banned, I would fill my buckets with purified water from our reverse osmosis system.

Made for ultra quick drying as it didn't bead and when four litres was added to the shampoo bucket, the shampoo worked nicer and would not reduce slickness



Distilled water for 2 or 4 litres is not that cheap down under
 
Look in your local yellow pages and you should be able to find a DI (Di-Ionized) water distrbutor in your area. From them you can rent the two tanks needed and pay per charge.



That's what I do, I pay $10.00 a month for the tanks and about $30.00 to get new one's when the time comes.



MorBid
 
Although I have an inexpensive water softener, I don't use it that often. Since my water isn't very hard to start with. I also use ONR for almost all of my customers cars. I just fill my 50 gallon tank from my house. I also have a number of customers that allow me to grab water if I need it. There was a time when I didn't have access to a hose and carried water in 5 gallon containers. If you have a hard water problem and you can rent DI tanks cheap enough that would be great. If you have hard water and are using a pressure washer then you'll almost certainly need to soften or filter the water. If you can rinse with a straight stream (like a cut piece of hose) that will let the water sheet off. Using a rinseless wash like ONR on at least the top surface would help a great deal with spotting.
 
That or grab yourself a cheap TDS meter (Total Dissolved Solids) and check a glass of water from your house.



The water up here stinks (literally smells like pool water). I washed my car with it once and was fighting water spots. I can't even bathe in it as it makes me all itchy so I had to install a filter for the shower too.
 
Dang Morbid. Maybe ONR would work on you, then you would not have to worry about the filter getting too dirty or getting itchy, j.k. I 'll pick some test up on the way home from work today and try it. I think the water is pretty good here. Even though we are constantly on a water restriction. I'll have to get some ONR a shot this week.
 
How bad is the restriction? We hit a drought a couple of years ago that had a lot of restrictions placed on water usuage. No residential washing, no commercial water usuage that wasn't necessary for business operation. I was able to continue cleaning cars as water is essential for business operation. The looks I got in residential communities were horrible. I expected to get confronted by people questioning me but no one did. With ONR I could buy water from the store and it wouldn't cost too much.
 
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