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From: Man at B&Q on 6 Jun 2010 11:45 On Jun 5, 9:04 pm, %ste...(a)malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth) wrote: > Halmyre <no.s...(a)this.address> wrote: > > Mineral water? Evian, one hopes? > > Unbranded Morrisons generic water stuff. > > I don't usually do Morrisons. It seems to be full of poor people in > decrepit state of health. Or is that just Basingstoke? It says more about you, than Basingstoke.
From: Silk on 6 Jun 2010 11:52 On 06/06/2010 16:19, ARWadsworth wrote: > Thats just crud/grit in the water supply. Don't be stupid. There's no "crud/grit" in the UK water supply.
From: bod on 6 Jun 2010 11:58 Silk wrote: > On 06/06/2010 16:19, ARWadsworth wrote: > >> Thats just crud/grit in the water supply. > > Don't be stupid. There's no "crud/grit" in the UK water supply. > > Silk, you seem to think you know everything. I can assure you (as a plumber of 40 odd years), that occasionally grit and crud DOES get into the UK water supply. No water supply is 100% perfect. Bod
From: Ian Jackson on 6 Jun 2010 12:00 In message <y0POn.1949$hP7.1170(a)hurricane>, ARWadsworth <adamwadsworth(a)blueyonder.co.uk> writes > >"Mortimer" <me(a)privacy.net> wrote in message >news:7uWdnR9RMbHgO5bRnZ2dnUVZ7qSdnZ2d(a)brightview.co.uk... >> "ARWadsworth" <adamwadsworth(a)blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message >> news:hiNOn.29650$Zg1.8910(a)newsfe10.ams2... >>> >>> "Steve Firth" <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote in message >>> news:1jjo0zk.unduuz4u1xe2N%%steve%@malloc.co.uk... >>>> ARWadsworth <adamwadsworth(a)blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Does hard water cause a problem to a cars windscreen washer reservoir >>>>> or >>>>> nozzles? I live in a soft water area and I fill up with nothing but tap >>>>> water and sometimes I add some screenwash if I can be bothered/have >>>>> some >>>>> available. >>>> >>>> Eventually. Hard water causes a deposit of limescale inside the wash >>>> water container and can cause scale in the pump if the container is not >>>> kept topped up. It also causes limescale to form anywhere where the >>>> water is exposed to the atmosphere - usually at the jets which don't >>>> take much to block up. >>> >>> But has anyone actually suffered from this? >>> >>> I only need to move 15 miles West of where I live to get very hard tap >>> water. I have never heard of anyone there suffering from scale blockage >>> on washer jets. >> >> I live in a hard water area. I've always used tap water to which I added >> the appropriate amount of screen wash (concentration depending on >> summer/winter). >> >> Every few months I've found that my windscreen washer jets become partly >> clogged: the flow out of one of the four jets (two jets per nozzle) starts >> to become more feeble or maybe even disappears, requiring me to find a >> suitably fine piece of wire to insert into the jet so as to unclog it. >> >> I've always assumed that this is due to limescale building up on the jet. > > >Thats just crud/grit in the water supply. If it was limescale build up at >that rate your house taps would fail every year. > Living in the Chiltern area, I have constant problems (niggling and sometimes not-so-niggling) with the hard water. A knitted stainless steel 'thingy' placed in the electric kettle is an absolute must (and does work very well). Without it, the element of a new kettle turns white after only boil. The hard water plays havoc with tap seatings, and other parts of the domestic water-works. I once replaced the immersion heater in the hot tank. Inside, the tank was virtually choked up solid. I had a new tank fitted (about 12 years ago), and I prefer not to think what it is like inside today. And hard water certainly does cause car washer jet blockages (which I suspect are sometimes actually be due to small limescale particles, rather than what is dissolved in the water). -- Ian
From: Steve Firth on 6 Jun 2010 12:03
ARWadsworth <adamwadsworth(a)blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: > Thats just crud/grit in the water supply. If it was limescale build up at > that rate your house taps would fail every year. Last time I looked, a washer jet on a car was the same diameter as a pin. The taps in my house vary but few of them are less than 15mm diameter. |