Wanted to know if bleach is bleach or if paying the premium for Chlorox over the consumer friendly cheaper no-name is worth the extra cost?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Wanted to know if bleach is bleach or if paying the premium for Chlorox over the consumer friendly cheaper no-name is worth the extra cost?
Inquiring minds want to know.
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it all tastes the same to me...awful
Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
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man, those one liners...boy is RonT riled at you.
Edited 5/12/2004 4:45 pm ET by rez
har har...even Uncle Dunc says it's 5.5% or 6%....
heck, Budweiser is only 5%...
still tastes awful tho' but some drano added makes a fizzy smoothie..
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You are not supposed to drink it - you huff it!
After mixing in some ammonia.
Bleach is bleach. You can buy 5.25% or 6%. Since it is greatly diluted for most uses anyway, the difference is more a marketing gimmick than anything else.
No bleach is not bleach.
There are all kinds of bleaches.
If you are talking about household sodium hypochlorite, then yes they are all about the same.
But sodium hypochlorite that is sold for swing pool use that is much more concentrated.
And there are many other bleaching agents.
Wood bleach and oxcallic acid are 2 othrs.
25 yearold cedar shakes on exterior wall never been touched.
Want to do a test patch of a cleaning mix to see how they will look.
What would you recommend?
I would recommend a Deck Brigthner.
Some of them have oxcallic acid in them. I think that some of them use different clemicals.
Whenever I have used the stuff it has come out looking like new cedar, except for the heavy grain pattern. It removes all of the oxidized wood.
Been a while, don't remember the brand.
TSP and bleach..mixed and sprayed on,scrob brush with a long handle, then rinsed..wear goggles.
I cup bleach, 1/2 cup tsp to a gallon worked well for the last siding I cleaned..
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Do you clean from the top down or bottom up? Or does it make a difference?
I know for washing bricks with chemical, you are supposed to do it bottom up.
Wash everything from the bottom up (|:>) yeah, her too.
Actually that is true. because it prevents uneven cleaning/bleaching (streaking.)
SamT
bottom up..less streaking. Also helps to Pre-wet or work after a rain..and not in direct sun..
I would be extremely carefull if using a PW...only low pressure and even then carefull.
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To anyone who has read down through this thread, and is stupid enough to try the ammonia and blech huffing trick..
That is a very very fast ticket to dead.
Do not ever mix the two. Even in a ventilated room. It puts off a very poisonous gas.
If you do nothing, nothing will happen.
A friend of mine pulled up his carpet and refinished his hard wood floors. He had an old decrepit dog that could not control his bodily functions. After the carpet was up, he tried to bleach out the urine stains. It did not take him long to feel the effects and leave the house to get some fresh air. He then realized that urine contained large concentrations of ammonia. FYI vaginal secretions have the same chemical composition as snot! Pretty romantic, huh?
Regards
Mark
vaginal secretions have the same chemical composition as snot! Pretty romantic, huh?
And to think I picked my nose and ate it as a kid...
life 101
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You mean I should stop doing that?
yes and never
pick yer order
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>> FYI vaginal secretions have the same chemical composition as snot!
No big surprise. There's a reason the internal tissue at both sites is called mucous membranes. Rectal mucous is pretty similar, too.
When you were in high school, didn't you ever hear the one about the prostitute with the really big nostrils?
and I thought I was bad..
Rectal secretions?
PULEEZE..
it's called
Butt butter
s'not the same as snot
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>> s'not the same as snot
I'll bet it's pretty close if you dilute it to the same concentration of water.
help, i'm chokin' here! *cough cough*
Boy oh boy did this topic head south really quick or what?
Right you are. Liquid pool shock is basically double the strength of household bleach.
It's all sodium hypochlorite, just different concentrations. When mixed with water, the sodium hypochlorite breaks up into sodium ions and hypochlorous acid, and that's what does the work, the hypochlorous acid.
Be extremely careful about mixing it with ANY other chemicals.
Just a tidbit of trivia here now: only about 10% of the chlorine in pools is used for sanitization. The rest is used up as an oxidizer, burning up all the impurities in the water.
And, as far as the chlorine in the water is concerned, sweat has about the same makeup as urine. And we still ask that you get out to pee. yuk.
Can you tell our neighborhood pool is opening in a couple of weeks, and guess who is in charge?
Sorry for all the off topic stuff. It's late.Pete Duffy, Handyman
"Liquid pool shock is basically double the strength of household bleach."
Pete,
You are right in that it can be that. But there are other types out there too. We used to use (back when we had a pool) a shock that was 50% hydrogen peroxide. Compared to what one puts on a cut (2%), that's strong.
Jon
Saw a guy ,whos wife owns a realty, pressure washing cedar shakes on the side walls. we are a vaction sort of town and the realty's mostly deal with weekly rentals
Don't know about you guys but I think thats just crazy and almost irresponsible.
I figure he takes off 2 to 5 years with every pressure watch.
Whadyall think?
Tyke
just another day in paradise
G.E. Ely Constrution
Ocracoke, NC
Trying to drag this back on topic!
Full disclosure: I work for Clorox. Please buy our products so I can keep funding my remodel projects!
All household bleach is labeled 5.25% sodium hypochlorite. The real question is what is the concentration when you go to use it. Bleach naturally loses strength over time, faster at higher heat. The generic label product typically leaves the plant at 5.25%. Clorox formulates our bleach differently at different times of year and in the different parts of the country to make sure it is at 5.25% when you use it, after the time spent in the warehouse, truck, store, etc.
Same goes for charcoal (yes, Kingsford is our product). We use different formulas for different parts of the country - so that it performs the same in the middle of the summer in Lousiana as it does in the fall in New England.
And now back to our hijack...
Roar!
what ? ya put crawdad secretions in La's charcoal?
or what?
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Shhhh! It's part of the secret formula - keep it quiet!
then Man, I DO NOT want to know where baby powder and baby oil comes from...DO NOT.
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