do you not have a floor drain?

 

So why can't you wash the truck with the tap water?

 

his tapwaters toxic or something.

 

It has bicarbonate but that shouldn't be a big deal

 

The bicarbonate (or something else in the well water) leaves a milky white mess on the paint. I don't think it really hurts anything, but it doesn't look clean. I even tried using it to wash my all white work truck and it's still noticeable.


So instead if installing a $5K filtration system I thought I would just rig up a small 10 gallon or less system to wash the vehicles.


No floor drain.

 

why wash it if its gonna come out looking like it got spermed.

 

Not quite that bad...but I would like to get the winter mess off every now and then.

 

if theres any state i always wanted to live in its wyoming! is the water bad all over tho?

 

The ground water isn't bad everywhere. I live about 20 miles west of Laramie and out here it varies from what I have to much worse. The east side of Laramie is on a different aquifer and I don't think it takes any filtration.


I'm making the trade off for free housing...maybe I should just put in a filtration system.

 

Don't you dry the truck?

 

Yes, I use a chamois but that won't take the white mess off. It's not really bad, but it's bad enough that I don't bother to wash the truck at the house. The best I can do for now is a car wash in town.


You would just have to try washing your truck with it once to see what I mean. Nothing terrible but also nothing great.

 

can you post pictures of it?

 

Just look in my gallery for pics of it clean...I didn't ever take any pics of it after trying to wash it with the well water. It's also just a light haze that gets left behind it probably would be hard to show it in a picture.

 

geez why dont they make showers big enough to get excursions in! are you extra white from your house shower?

 

The water is actually safe for humans and cattle to drink...but I'm provided with bottled water for drinking and cooking. We also get water in town for the chickens. The odd part is it isn't rated for watering plants, but that's because anything in the water that goes into a plant stays in the plant, they can't process it like animals.


You only notice it on the shower walls, it doesn't seem like anything bad to be bathing in. The clothes don't come out as nice from the washing machine as compared to using city water but they're still fine.


I can wash the truck with it and get the big mess off...but it's never clean enough to wax.


I'm just trying to figure out how much pressure and flow I need from a pump. Then I'll plumb up a small tank to a small water heater using a gravity feed setup, and hook up the pump to the output of the water heater.