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[Propslip]

Going back to my Admiralty three drum days, our boiler feed water was always treated with some compound or other. (The name of which escapes me). Do the small boilers we use, require any chemical additives or is it unnecessary?
                                                       Propslip

[rhavrane]

Bonjour,
Personally, I usually use demineralised water. however, as she tends to want to remineralize in the environment in which she is, I also use tap water which, at home, is not limestone.

[SailorGreg]

If you have a tumble drier that condenses the water it extracts (as opposed to venting it to the outside), you can use that water.  It is not guaranteed pure, but for our purposes I reckon it is quite good enough.

Greg

[Jerry C]

I did a slow ocean passage on a small tug. To save water we collected condensate from air conditioning machines and piped it to a 50 gallon drum in the khazi and flushed the toilets from this. After a few days the water turned rotten, and I mean rotten so we scrapped that idea. Personally I just use the water in the lake via the feed pump. However the water in Llyn Padarn is crystal clear.
Jerry.

[pendlesteam]

It all depends on whether you get limescale in your water or not (hard vs soft water). No limescale, no problem. My boilers at home only ever get tap water with no ill effect.