Sterile Water For Sale - Ideal for Humidifiers or Cleaning Equipment

[fromtheboro]

Hello All,

I have several boxes of sterile water purchased from a medical supplier. I misread the web page a bought 10 boxes each of which contain 6 500ml bottles of sterile water.

In a dim moment I ordered 10 boxes not 10 bottles, so if anybody is interested i will sell them for the same price I purchased which is £10 inc P&P. Not interested in making a profit on this just want to help others out there too.

I also have a Remstar Auto CPAP machine with 192hr usage perfect condition, if anybody is interested email or IM me (price is £160 + P&P to forum readers)

[goldtopia]

distilled water

If you are in Bournemouth or surrounding areas see website www.water-pure.co.uk

[PIPKIN]

tap water cheapest option ,why buy ??????

[goldtopia]

Why buy ?

It depends what you want the water for. For different purposes and properties of water see data page of website water-pure.co.uk

[goldtopia]

Distilled water

The website address has changed to www.pure-clean-water.co.uk You can read on the data page what distilled water really is and how it compares to other forms of water. RO, ionised, filtered, etc.

[Grumpy]

pure_water claims

The pure-water website would get hammered by the ASA.
Substitute 'snake-oil' for 'distilled water' to get my drift.
Almost all of the claims made for distilled water apply to water.
Shocking that people can get away with this.

[goldtopia]

Distilled Water

Ye, this is true distilled water has no minerals or trace elements. It is for this reason that excessive consumption will have an adverse effect. Most manufacturers of distilled water do not give this warning. As a detoxer it should be not be used as a permanently health drink. I recommend a course of a limited time. See: www.water-distilled.co.uk On the data page of this website are comparisons with tap water, bottled water, etc.

[Fredxx]

I think it is a fair bet that goldtopia is the owner of that distilled water business, all the posts are advertising their water site.

As has been discussed many times, you don't need to use distilled water in a CPAP. Tap water in many areas is perfectly good enough, and if you are in a very hard water area where it isn't suitable, the cheap supermarket bottled water does the job, and is easy to get hold of.

I'm not saying there aren't times when distilled water isn't appropriate, just that for CPAP it is overkill.

[dravidio]

I live in an area where limescale is a problem. I bought a water distiller a couple of years ago and it has given me excellent service (though it was expensive at about £140.) The main use is for my steam generator iron - which cost a lot of money and it keeps it completely clean - and I use the rest in my DeVilbiss humidifier. I think it will give me years more use and pay for itself in the long run. Mineral waters contain mineral salts - which is why they are called mineral waters. The gunge left behind in the distiller is a good advert for why I am happy to use it...

[Fredxx]

no arguments that you live in a hard water area and that causes limescale in irons etc. and that in areas like yours where the water hardness is 300mg/l or even more, this can cause limescale in your humidifier, but the humidifier is a slightly different case to the iron - in the iron you cause the water to boil dry, hence the steam. In the humidifier you will probably not reduce the water down as far as half it's original volume; unless you are in an area where the water hardness is over 200mg/l that shouldn't be a problem.

Now for the supermarket bottled waters. Firstly, there is a difference between mineral water, spring water and table water; all are sold in the supermarkets. The maximum calcium / magnesium (and hence hardness) content for bottled water is 200 mg/l. Most supermarket own brand mineral and spring waters are actually usually down round 70mg/l or even less, meaning you should be fine using them in a humidifier.

Would I use the supermarket spring water in an expensive iron? No. For that I think you have made a wise investment in the distiller, and as you have it, you might as well distil your own water for your CPAP humidifier. I still think it would be overkill to go and buy a distiller, or buy expensive distilled water for the CPAP machine when the tap or cheap supermarket stuff is fine.

None of which changes the fact that goldtopia is just advertising his own product and company.

[goldtopia]

Distilled water

The comment about advertising my business. I only deal locally and do not generally advertise except for a website. Bottled water is better than tap water, but distilled water is better. As I said it depends what you want it for. The water I use for the distiller has no limescale or hardness to start with which means the distiller does not scale up but does need to be cleaned out each time. Using tap water for appliances will fur up. Distilled water is very cheap to make. The distiller can cost anywhere between £150 to over a £1000 depending how quickly you need to make it.

[komadori]

Totally agree that in most areas tap water is fine for CPAP humidifiers, but for any newbie reading, please remember this it is important to throw away any remnants each day and start again with fresh water.

Any remnants will have a concentration of "solids" which will build up if you just top-up the tank each day, plus of course by retaining "old" water, you would increase the remote risk of bugs breading in the tank. New water each day, plus regular descale and clean (for me about once every fortnight is fine, more frequently in very hard water areas), is the economic, healthy way.

[proterra]

I have just been using water thats been boiled in the kettle first in my humidifier. Almost a year now and no limescale buildup.

[Grumpy]

tap water here is just fine

I use water straight from the tap in my humidifier, rinsed out and replaced every couple of days. That's it. Still looks like new (just over a year old).

I think South Yorkshire has some of the best quality water in the country. In fact you can buy it in bottles from Tesco and Asda:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2190027/Asda-Tesco-selling-tap-water-bottled-water-confusing-customers.html

[proterra]

I live in an area where limescale is a problem. I bought a water distiller a couple of years ago and it has given me excellent service (though it was expensive at about £140.) The main use is for my steam generator iron - which cost a lot of money and it keeps it completely clean - and I use the rest in my DeVilbiss humidifier. I think it will give me years more use and pay for itself in the long run. Mineral waters contain mineral salts - which is why they are called mineral waters. The gunge left behind in the distiller is a good advert for why I am happy to use it...

I live in Sheffield but we are on severn trent water where I live not Yorkshire water. I just use water thats been pre boiled in the kettle and dont have a problem with Limescale