Advice On What To Do Please

[ACW]

This.

Travelling light is something we could all aim for I reckon. I started a few customers on my new 'On Demand System' last week and the time saving plus reduced weight carrying effect was v impressive.

Gave away new tap fitting to each 'trialist' as a lil thank you.

Have you considered carrying two DI units and filling up at a customers house? If you are using a lot of water, then get the smaller tank that is within your payload and re-fill half way through the day. Maybe do that customer for half price.

https://www.windowcleaningforums.co.uk/topic/2395-how-much-water-do-twin-di-vessels-produce/

It's not even that expensive when all said an done, and you wont need to get a bigger van.

Just a thought.

 

[OoO]

Have you considered carrying two DI units and filling up at a customers house? If you are using a lot of water, then get the smaller tank that is within your payload and re-fill half way through the day. Maybe do that customer for half price.
https://www.windowcleaningforums.co.uk/topic/2395-how-much-water-do-twin-di-vessels-produce/

It's not even that expensive when all said an done, and you wont need to get a bigger van.

Just a thought.

Depends on his PPM

If customers have a PPM of around 350 and he fills up around a 100 L a day. It will costs between £75-£100 a month. But you can earn some decent money with a 100L

 

[Smurf]

I've been thinking along the eco green line so maybe we should be offering to sell and install rainwater hubs to customers as well? :Image16:

Each customer that has a rainwater hub fitted at a discount rate we then could use the harvested rainwater on-site collected to wash their windows after being filtered & run through a di to make pure either from their water butts or hub itself.

When installed you would just need to connect a trolley type pump box with a small di & filters to be able to wash their windows or pump harvested pure into your van tank. The average size house roof in the UK can collect upto 40,000 ltr of rainwater a year that goes straight down the drain.

What do you think?

 

[MarkB]

I've been thinking along the eco green line so maybe we should be offering to sell and install rainwater hubs to customers as well? :Image16:

Each customer that has a rainwater hub fitted at a discount rate we then could use the harvested rainwater on-site collected to wash their windows after being filtered & run through a di to make pure either from their water butts or hub itself.

When installed you would just need to connect a trolley type pump box with a small di & filters to be able to wash their windows or pump harvested pure into your van tank. The average size house roof in the UK can collect upto 40,000 ltr of rainwater a year that goes straight down the drain.

What do you think?

gotta be the most ridiculous post i have read,

why i waste my time reading this forum now i dont know

 

[alex1987]

Depends on his PPM

If customers have a PPM of around 350 and he fills up around a 100 L a day. It will costs between £75-£100 a month. But you can earn some decent money with a 100l

Very true, but I think you are being slightly negative on the figures there. Mark M says he gets 6000ltrs out of 2two 27ltr DI at 240ppm.

I think you could get lets say 4000ltrs if it was 350 ppm . And mark says that once the out put is up to 10ppm you just swap the 2nd tank round, and fill up a new tank. So you only need to buy one bag of resin each month. Based on around 20/21 working days, it comes out around £2.50/day

 

[Smurf]

Many thanks for your imput MarkB.. .

So I take it you don't like my wfp rainwater harvesting idea instead of transporting thousands of ltrs of water about yearly in a van. That by the way actually costs extra money to transport heavy loads of water about so contributing to added wear of the van needlessly plus a higher fuel bill when alternative options could be found. Before you say it I don't mean trad everything instead..

On another note at least I try to help others out and contribute to the open forum unlike some that just likes to read alot.

Anyhow congratulation as you have just gone over 70 posts marker since joining the open forum in fed 2012. Well done mucker! :Image13:

 

[OoO]

Very true, but I think you are being slightly negative on the figures there. Mark M says he gets 6000ltrs out of 2two 27ltr DI at 240ppm.
I think you could get lets say 4000ltrs if it was 350 ppm . And mark says that once the out put is up to 10ppm you just swap the 2nd tank round, and fill up a new tank. So you only need to buy one bag of resin each month. Based on around 20/21 working days, it comes out around £2.50/day[/quote

Very true, but I think you are being slightly negative on the figures there. Mark M says he gets 6000ltrs out of 2two 27ltr DI at 240ppm.
I think you could get lets say 4000ltrs if it was 350 ppm . And mark says that once the out put is up to 10ppm you just swap the 2nd tank round, and fill up a new tank. So you only need to buy one bag of resin each month. Based on around 20/21 working days, it comes out around £2.50/day

Was based on Gardiners resin calculator.

 

[Smurf]

My tap water is about 350 ppm and no way on earth would I just use a di.

Even Mark M seems to have given up the di route as got himself a 4040 ro/di static setup now. :Image16:

 

[alex1987]

mine is 250ppm and the surrounding area. twin di's work great for me as it's only costing me around £60-£80 a month to produce around 6000ltrs. An Ro is not an option where Iive, and my van has limited payload. The Di setup is great for me, but if you have a higher ppm and the ability to use a 40/40 then sure that's better. it's all horses for courses, but with regards to the original post and his limitations, I think the Di setup would be his best bet, even at 350ppm. Its that or do less work and earn less money.

 

[alex1987]

Was based on Gardiners resin calculator.

yeah I just tried that, but what you did was put in 350ppm, 27ltr tank £60-£80 per bag 2000ltrs = £75-£100/month just like you said.

But with the twin setup, you need to adjust the initial input as it would not be the ppm from your tap. You swap the tanks over and only refill one, so it's only the cost of one bag of resin for the second tank, filtering the water after its passed through the first Di you swapped over.

You would need to measure the ppm of the water coming from the first tank, and then enter that as your starting ppm, to give the actual ppm figure. Obviously the starting ppm will rise and rise through use.