to ask where the f*** can I buy distilled water???

[LittleTruffle]

Posting here for traffic.

Recently bought a Dr Brown's Bottle Steriliser. Instructions clearly state distilled water must be used.

Don't seem to be able to find distilled water readily available anywhere.. except Amazon and Halfords (for car batteries). DP is reluctant to buy from Amazon and we're a bit sceptical about using water advertised for car batteries.

All search results return serilised water, de-ionised water and mineral water.. but not distilled water.

Does anyone else have a Dr Brown's Bottle Steriliser? What water are you using?

Does anyone know where I can buy distilled water?????? I'm in London.

Most people would just use tap water and descale often

If just boiling the kettle stopped it scaling up, then why do kettles scale up?!

Can you not just email dr browns and ask them what they advise brands wise?

I found this online to explain why distilled water is recommended (more info on the website)

That's what descalers are for

So you buy kettle descaler and use it in the steriliser every so often. 🤷🏼‍♀️

I collect the water from my condenser tumble dryer to use in my steam mop for this scale reason. It is distilled water

Do check as I thought the distilled water they sold for car batteries was not pure water but may have some acid content as that is what is required in car batteries.

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Buy a water distiller and distill your own...its lovely to drink and no scale in your kettle at all, tea tastes amazing

Honestly you can buy it in a Tesco’s in the ironing section.

Go to your local aquarium shop and ask for RO water (reverse osmosis - does the same job as distillation wrt the minerals that will clog your steriliser)
Cheap as chips, like 15p a litre

We buy the deionised water from car shops for our off grid batteries and you can get it in 25 litre containers. We even drank it when we had a problem with our water pump so it’s ok to drink.

We are no where near London but get ours from

allianceautomotive.co.uk/our-network/motor-factor-locations/?postcode=London&currentlocation=&radius=&factor=

If you need stuff for your car the staff are really helpful and we get oil for ours cars, chainsaw and lawn mower from there too.

I get distilled water from Asda that I use in my iron.

@Wishitsnows

Is distilled water not just boil the kettle then let it cool?

No.

@CovidStoleTheRainbow

If just boiling the kettle stopped it scaling up, then why do kettles scale up?!

Boiling the water takes the limescale out of the water so it doesn't scale the next thing you use it in. I save leftover boiled water to use in my iron and humidifier.

In sterilisers I always used tap water and periodically scrubbed the salts away. Not sure why at and type would be different?

Supermarket.

What an incredible faff. I know you can buy stuff to descale a steriliser. Would that be easier?

You can buy it on Amazon

@Regularsizedrudy

Boil the kettle?

That's boiled water, not distilled water.

Distilled water is the condensation that forms inside the lid of a kettle. Or the water from the tumble dryer.

Tumble dryer water has cloth fibres in and isn't suitable.

We get these delivered while my mum is visiting, she uses it in her CPAP machine: www.thedistilledwatercompany.com/distilled-water-10-litres

Just use normal water op. I can guarantee you people don’t go searching pharmacies or raiding Halfords for distilled water to put in their steriliser!!! I’ve had 3 kids - just use normal water. By the time it starts to scale up you will probably have finished using it anyway! Just a good clean out now and again will work

Boiling tap water precipitates out limescale. When I lived in a very hard water area, I used cooled boiled water in my iron.

I work in a dentist and we use distilled water for the auto claves. We buy ours from henry shein (not sure if you can just buy from there?).