Hi all, I'm new here. I came for the discussion and experience posted on here (and I love it, favorite place to read up on daily), so I thought I'd contribute something to maybe help some others just starting up like me.
I just started up this year in the window cleaning business with a partner, and we always dreamed of having a WFP system up and running ready to go for larger projects that we couldn't or wouldn't want to tackle doing traditional mop & squeegee. I studied up on the design of DI systems and realized the hardest part was finding a tank, which my dad found for me on one of his trips to the swap shop.
Everything in the pictures cost a grand total of $306, including a $15 Ispring TDS meter from Amazon, and a flow valve on the pole. I built it using a $15 pool filter housing my dad got and repainted it using a darker blue for plastics. I got 100ft of hose for $37, $54 bag of resin (holds .259 cu. ft.), $34 carbon pre-filter, metal bands to secure it all to the hand cart that I already had, $35 20ft unger blue pole, and $10 brush, with $5 vinyl tubing up the pole. The downside: I couldn't find plastic fittings in the sizes I needed, so I had to settle on brass. The other $100 is various fittings, metal, paint, and some silicone. The hose spirals up the pole going through some oversized hose clamps. Even had some angle iron to put a sign on it too.
Produces water at .257ppm (000ppm TDS), 2.5 megohms resistance (.4 microsiemens) out the pole. It took some trial and error with the internal tank design, but I got it plug-n-play reliable after some design tweaking and lathe work.
I think the next improvements to my WFP arsenal are: a proper WFP like the reach-it (thanks for the training vids Perry, solved my problems), brush upgrade, and a freakin storm trooper style backpack sprayer!.
You can do it, just gotta do it right.... Hope this helps some other people looking for some options.
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I just started up this year in the window cleaning business with a partner, and we always dreamed of having a WFP system up and running ready to go for larger projects that we couldn't or wouldn't want to tackle doing traditional mop & squeegee. I studied up on the design of DI systems and realized the hardest part was finding a tank, which my dad found for me on one of his trips to the swap shop.
Everything in the pictures cost a grand total of $306, including a $15 Ispring TDS meter from Amazon, and a flow valve on the pole. I built it using a $15 pool filter housing my dad got and repainted it using a darker blue for plastics. I got 100ft of hose for $37, $54 bag of resin (holds .259 cu. ft.), $34 carbon pre-filter, metal bands to secure it all to the hand cart that I already had, $35 20ft unger blue pole, and $10 brush, with $5 vinyl tubing up the pole. The downside: I couldn't find plastic fittings in the sizes I needed, so I had to settle on brass. The other $100 is various fittings, metal, paint, and some silicone. The hose spirals up the pole going through some oversized hose clamps. Even had some angle iron to put a sign on it too.
Produces water at .257ppm (000ppm TDS), 2.5 megohms resistance (.4 microsiemens) out the pole. It took some trial and error with the internal tank design, but I got it plug-n-play reliable after some design tweaking and lathe work.
I think the next improvements to my WFP arsenal are: a proper WFP like the reach-it (thanks for the training vids Perry, solved my problems), brush upgrade, and a freakin storm trooper style backpack sprayer!.
You can do it, just gotta do it right.... Hope this helps some other people looking for some options.
DI 1.jpgDI 2.jpgDI 3.jpgDI 4.jpg
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