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TheRealRobG
When I tiled my bathroom, I was rinsing my dirty adhesive and grout buckets down the toilet along with a few flushes and a couple more buckets of water for good measure.
However, this got to be a pain (not to mention worrying about bunging the drain up), so this time (tiling the en-suite) I bought a couple of 120 litre plastic troughs, and I've been using them to hold all my dirty water and rinsing out buckets, tools, tile cutter etc. There was a good 3-4 inches of scum at the bottom by the time I finished after a week of washing tools, dirty adhesive & grout buckets and cutting tiles.
Not wanting to empty this down the drain, and not having a good way of delivering it to the local tip, I decided to try to separate off as much water as I could.
I drilled a hole in the bottom of a large adhesive bucket, placed a large scrubbing pad over the hole and started pouring the dirty water into the bucket, with the bucket sat on two strips of wood over a large tub below.
The water drips out of the hole into the tub beneath surprisingly clean (actually clear), and the scum all gets caught in the bucket. Eventually (after about 12 hours), I had a large tub containing clean water which went straight down the drain, and one large bucket full of semi-dry adhesive/grout/tile residue which I could scoop into rubbish bags.
How do you guys deal with this problem?
However, this got to be a pain (not to mention worrying about bunging the drain up), so this time (tiling the en-suite) I bought a couple of 120 litre plastic troughs, and I've been using them to hold all my dirty water and rinsing out buckets, tools, tile cutter etc. There was a good 3-4 inches of scum at the bottom by the time I finished after a week of washing tools, dirty adhesive & grout buckets and cutting tiles.
Not wanting to empty this down the drain, and not having a good way of delivering it to the local tip, I decided to try to separate off as much water as I could.
I drilled a hole in the bottom of a large adhesive bucket, placed a large scrubbing pad over the hole and started pouring the dirty water into the bucket, with the bucket sat on two strips of wood over a large tub below.
The water drips out of the hole into the tub beneath surprisingly clean (actually clear), and the scum all gets caught in the bucket. Eventually (after about 12 hours), I had a large tub containing clean water which went straight down the drain, and one large bucket full of semi-dry adhesive/grout/tile residue which I could scoop into rubbish bags.
How do you guys deal with this problem?