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Originally Posted by rich1068
They are good. I've used one in the past even though we have soft water.
If you do carry on using them and you need to replace the filter then check out suppliers who sell to window cleaners. More than likely you'll get a larger one for roughly the same money.
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Originally Posted by M3-FAST
Another option is to fit a water softener to the house - OK outlay is more expensive (I paid £400 for mine), but you not only get the benefit whilst cleaning the car. You use less detergent, less shampoo, less bubble bath, etc.. in everyday usage plus everything stays clean for longer! Chrome taps stay shiny and shower screens stay nice and clean.
We live in a very hardwater area. Even a new kettle can scale up within a week or two. I was totally fed up of replacing steam irons, etc.. and anything water related seem to have a very short life (thermostatic shower, washing machine, etc..)
Once I fitted the softener, it made a huge improvement. The first thing that happens is that your existing water system starts to descale so for the first week you get loads of scale etc voming out of the taps but then from then on, it's all good.
It costs about a fiver a month to run (a bag of salt blocks is about a tenner and one bag lasts 8 weeks ish).
It made a huge improvement when cleaning the cars - all the glass and paintwork dries clear, etc..
We have just moved house and haven't got it re-installed yet but it is a job to do very shortly as I am missing it already!
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this is all good advice, I recently did both of this. I bought one of the window cleaning poles all the professinal window cleaners seem to be using today, the brush on the end and also the water filtration system. Its so much easier to clean my cars windows now, and also my houses windows. I got my kit from
https://wfp.co.uk/collections/window-cleaning-equipment however it was not cheap! but in the long run I will save enough from not having to go to car washes that it will be worth it.
