and for the few who haven't heard, or who might be getting lax,
never mix bleach and ammonia.
It makes a neato poison gas called phosgene, which has been known to take out the occasional careless cleaning person.
If you are using a detergent and decide to mix it with some kind of cleaner, check the ingredients of both. I once almost mixed a dish detergent that had bleach with another cleaner that pushed its effectivenss due to ammonia. Read that F manual for sure!
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Haha....reminded me of a time when my friend and I mixed every chemical in the house in a jar to see what happened. There were literally probably 50 different cleaners, solvents, glues, etc. in that concoction. Bad idea. We made all kind of neato gases and it was gnarly. We tried to light it on fire but it would not burn....not enough gasoline and lighter fluid I guess. So we took it out at night and shattered it on one of those large steel power poles. It was letting off some green fog and actually spreading upwards for awhile. I wonder if that is why I cannot angel so well anymore..........:)
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Try Iron Out ([Link: summitbrands.com]). Smells like #%ss but can get anything out with no scrubbing. Its usually in the plumbing section of Home Depot.
Kitchen cleaners(including and especially oven cleaners) are of the type of solvent to address animal fat based grease. Bathroom cleaners are made for soap scum. In my experience interchanging them shows how poorly they work on each others' quarries. If I were to guess, I'd guess oven cleaner won't work on the bathtub or tile. Just guessing. If the water is harder than usual, the soap scum will be harder to dissolve with a bathroom cleaner. As mentioned, CLR works on hard water and related deposits. A water softener (if needed according to the water's hardness) reduces this and makes it easier to clean the bathroom.
On April 20, 2012 at 17:24, bradpuddephatt said...
Kitchen cleaners(including and especially oven cleaners) are of the type of solvent to address animal fat based grease. Bathroom cleaners are made for soap scum. In my experience interchanging them shows how poorly they work on each others' quarries. If I were to guess, I'd guess oven cleaner won't work on the bathtub or tile. Just guessing. If the water is harder than usual, the soap scum will be harder to dissolve with a bathroom cleaner. As mentioned, CLR works on hard water and related deposits. A water softener (if needed according to the water's hardness) reduces this and makes it easier to clean the bathroom.
Brad, you may be right. What got me thinking about oven cleaner is I was told by my tile guy who put slate in my other (new) shower to switch to liquid soap from bar soap as bar soap consists of mainly animal fats.
I thought if the easy off works on the oven why not use it on the tub?
You and few of the others have mentioned CLR but I don't have hard water. Bcf has the same problem as I do which is the non-skid parts of the shower floor trap dirt with the help of the soap scum. I might try Oxy Clean...
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Try Iron Out ([Link: summitbrands.com]). Smells like #%ss but can get anything out with no scrubbing. Its usually in the plumbing section of Home Depot.
Ben
This stuff is amazing. We have used it to soak white baseball pants in as the red clay and grass stains are impossible otherwise. Don't put it on anything metal.
I used it to get the toilet ring out last week. Put a plumbers plug in the toilet, dumped in some iron out and waited an hour. Looks new.
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