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Water for humidifier
My husband has now bought a CPAP with the agreement of his sleep clinic. Could you please guide us re water for the humidifier. Does it have to be distilled water? If so how do we get it in large volumes-our local chemist says they cannot help for this. We have Scottish tap water - can this water boiled be used?
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Hi,
I'm a cheapskate. I buy the malt vinegar at 22p/bottle and make sure I rinse it out thoroughly afterwards :) Compared to your tap water at 15mg/litre, here it's 273 mg/L CaCO3 and when I stay in Reading it's 369.
Jonathan.
Christine Woods said:Hi Jonathan, pleased to hear the ping of the Ipad with your words. Following Lisa's and Carol's guidance I am awaiting our local Boots to help with a price for Baxters H2O. The new CPAP rep phoned hubby last night and said again that tap water was OK and mentioned the vinegar rinse.
The CPAP humidifier booklet is a bit vague re type of water required -we have also been advised not now to put the chamber in the dishwasher but use vinegar. This also is new to us. Do you use white vinegar , would not imagine the malt for fish and ships was ideal but maybe hubby would enjoy !
We used to live in Enfield so know the hardness of the water there. All forum help is appreciated
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Thanks Jonathan. Wow that is quite a change re water hardness content. I remember when in Enfield someone saying hard water has its health benefits compared to soft but guess that is for another discussion.
Jonathan said:Hi,
I'm a cheapskate. I buy the malt vinegar at 22p/bottle and make sure I rinse it out thoroughly afterwards :) Compared to your tap water at 15mg/litre, here it's 273 mg/L CaCO3 and when I stay in Reading it's 369.
Jonathan.
Christine Woods said:Hi Jonathan, pleased to hear the ping of the Ipad with your words. Following Lisa's and Carol's guidance I am awaiting our local Boots to help with a price for Baxters H2O. The new CPAP rep phoned hubby last night and said again that tap water was OK and mentioned the vinegar rinse.
The CPAP humidifier booklet is a bit vague re type of water required -we have also been advised not now to put the chamber in the dishwasher but use vinegar. This also is new to us. Do you use white vinegar , would not imagine the malt for fish and ships was ideal but maybe hubby would enjoy !
We used to live in Enfield so know the hardness of the water there. All forum help is appreciated
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