When Adam's introduced RW, I was skeptical of the idea, especially since it was suggested to use (and re-use) only two towels during the entire process. After a few washings, I started figuring out a few ways to make it a simpler and safer process. You don't need ten gallons of water. You don't need two buckets. Heck, you don't even need a grit guard if the buckets are clean to begin with. You also use less RW which translates into more uses out of your bottle or gallon.
Now, instead of 2 ounces of RW, two buckets, and 5 gallons of water in each bucket, I use about 1 ounce of RW, no more than 2 gallons of water, and one bucket. Not only is this cutting your water and product use by half or more, but you're getting a higher concentration of solution to boot.
I have six plush 16x24 towels I use for rinseless washing. If you fold them in eighths, that is 96 6x8 usable towel surfaces, which is more than plenty for a car my size. Once you completely use a towel, put it off to the side. This is somewhat similar to the "Garry Dean" method that some people are familiar with, except you are following the Adam's technique of wiping in straight lines and flipping to a fresh side each time.
Never reintroduce a used towel back into your RW solution. Why? Well, for starters, your unused towels will then be sitting in dirty water. Secondly, if your solution is never contaminated, you can save whatever's left and use it next time. I don't even dry my rinseless towels after cleaning them anymore. Once they're washed and rinsed thoroughly, I just throw them back in the rinseless solution and seal the lid. Now they're ready to go at a moment's notice, and I can top off the solution with more water or RW as necessary, instead of throwing out ten gallons of water and 12% of my bottle of Rinseless every single time.
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When Adam's introduced RW, I was skeptical of the idea, especially since it was suggested to use (and re-use) only two towels during the entire process. After a few washings, I started figuring out a few ways to make it a simpler and safer process. You don't need ten gallons of water. You don't need two buckets. Heck, you don't even need a grit guard if the buckets are clean to begin with. You also use less RW which translates into more uses out of your bottle or gallon.
Now, instead of 2 ounces of RW, two buckets, and 5 gallons of water in each bucket, I use about 1 ounce of RW, no more than 2 gallons of water, and one bucket. Not only is this cutting your water and product use by half or more, but you're getting a higher concentration of solution to boot.
I have six plush 16x24 towels I use for rinseless washing. If you fold them in eighths, that is 96 6x8 usable towel surfaces, which is more than plenty for a car my size. Once you completely use a towel, put it off to the side. This is somewhat similar to the "Garry Dean" method that some people are familiar with, except you are following the Adam's technique of wiping in straight lines and flipping to a fresh side each time.
Never reintroduce a used towel back into your RW solution. Why? Well, for starters, your unused towels will then be sitting in dirty water. Secondly, if your solution is never contaminated, you can save whatever's left and use it next time. I don't even dry my rinseless towels after cleaning them anymore. Once they're washed and rinsed thoroughly, I just throw them back in the rinseless solution and seal the lid. Now they're ready to go at a moment's notice, and I can top off the solution with more water or RW as necessary, instead of throwing out ten gallons of water and 12% of my bottle of Rinseless every single time.
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