Wulfman... wrote:Has all your snow melted? If not, scoop up a bunch of snow and melt it......then filter it through a cloth or coffee filter or something like that to remove the particulates.
About a year ago, we had problems with out water pump, and of course it happened on a Friday night of a holiday weekend (I think). Anyway, it was a long weekend with no water at home. We took bucket-loads of snow and put it in our bathtub to melt, so we would have water. After that experience, I will NEVER melt snow to use in my xpap machine, unless the snow is freshly fallen into a clean container that I have just set out. Let's just say the melted snow in our clean tub was far from clear. Ewww. I would think bottled water would be fine for a time. I'd keep looking for the distilled. I'm guessing there was just a shortage. Didn't you just have a couple of big snow storms there recently? Maybe people bought up all the water around, and drinking water would be much quicker to be replenished than the distilled.
sol wrote:I use drinking tap water which is better than the polluted air we breathe into our lungs daily from cars exhaust fumes and the food we eat which been sprayed with pesticide .
I don't use the distilled water because I'm afraid to breathe my tap water, I use the distilled water because the minerals/impurities in the drinking water will leave a residue in my tank. If I used distilled water, I have to clean my humidifier tank much less often, and theoretically, it will last longer.
Sleep study (Aug 2010): AHI 16 (On mask AHI 0.2) <-- Now, if I could just attain that "0.2" again!
aPAP for 4 months, Switched to BiPap, 2nd sleep study Feb 2011 Possible PLMD
to quote Madalot..."I'm an enigma"