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I have been Spring/Summer cleaning thru out the house the past few days....and I ran out of bleach (clutch the pearls), but rather than clean up and wait...or run another errand to the store...I have been using chlorine powder for the pool...about 4 cups to a 5 gallon bucket disolved.....between a mop, a sponge, and a sprayer...I have been cleaning and scrubbing the dog pen, their cages, the cement walkways, the deck, outside cement walls, you name it....with the greatest of ease....the fumes while mixing this stuff will knock you dead, so it must be done outside....but I can't help how well it it getting everything superclean, white and doing away with any odors .......

Have any of you guys done this with this stuff...and could I be doing more harm than good?....I know too much chlorine will hurt the bushes, and it makes the grass turn yellow for a few day and come back greener and thicker...

I even added a half cup to the laundry for the dogs blankets and sheets....outstanding results!
 
Off the top of my head.....

I would think that without proper, unto excessive rinsing, you might be risking fabric damage. Liquid chlorine bleach is only about 5.25% sodium hypochlorite. A person could short-cut rinsing by using white vinegar in the first deep rinse, and then a plain water second rinse. However, I am highly nervous about chlorine bleach. This is just what I do when I do use chlorine bleach in the laundry.

Your mileage may vary.

Lawrence/Maytagbear
 
Have you tried using oxi-bleach? It's safer and it won't harm you in making strange mixes not it won't harm the textiles. Also keep in mind that there are certain plastics that turn yellow upon contact with chlorine bleach!
 
Pool Bleach

Is nothing more than "dry" chlorine bleach used by commercial laundries and others for ages. Quite correct in that the concentration may be a bit stronger than normal household bleach,but there are ways around that.

Commercial purposes prefer dry chlorine bleach as it tends to be a bit more stable than the liquid version.

While it is possible to use white vinegar to counteract chlorine bleach, one does this at last, not first rinse. Standard warnings about mixing chlorine bleach (a base) with acids (white vinegar). The chemical reaction can give off dangerous fumes. Better to have several rinses then add anti-chlor or white vinegar to the final rinse. Also without knowing what concentration of bleach is left within the textiles, it is a bit of a hit or miss as to how much vinegar one must add to cancel.
 
Interesting Martin..

Launderess ...Also not knowing what concentration is left within the textiles, it
is a bit of a hit and miss as to how much ( Vinegar ) to add or cancel.

Well how much should you add ?
I put about a have a cup of Clorox Slash-Less Bleach sometimes one cup.
I also use Clorox Ultimate Care Bleach about a half cup.
So you have to dose at the very last Rinse with vinegar ?

Thanks.

Darren k.
 
I have bought pool tabs at the end of the season when they are dirt cheap.
Then I will take an old margarine container and poke a few holes in it so water can leach in and out. Submerge it in the toliet tank and you have your own homemade 2000 flushes.
 
Iheart....

another brillient idea!...I love it when we have things around the house to use and don't realize it at first...see a need, fill it!

I was running the dogs blanket thru 2 washes at a time, one with bleach in every dispenser, and then again with ammonia in the first wash, and I always still could smell dog odor/urine....but with the pool chlorine, 1/2 cup with detergent and all odors gone in first wash....I think I'll stick with this for a while....
 
which ones?

I have been to store, and looked at the pool area. There are different combinations and quantity of chlorine percentages? What is better the tabs or the granular style. I also read that sodium bi-sulfate is (antichlor) didn't know if that is true. I was going to buy some pool chlorine, but didn't to buy the wrong thing. I tried to e-mail sudsman, but wouldn't work at the Econolodge, so I had to wait till I got home.
 
"homemade 2000 flushes"

sounds like a creative idea.

Just be careful, I've heard that the constant exposure, in the tank, to these chemicals, causes corrosion of the metal and rubber parts.
 
chlorine powder for the pool

Hi Martin,
be aware that half a cup is way too much even in a US style toploader and wears quickly fabrics, expecially natural ones.
Chlorine will be so much concentrated to reach the breakpoint as if it were a shock treatment in the pool ... and everyone dealing with pool maintenance knows what I mean :)

Shock treatment, breakpoint and required chlorine concentration

Also be sure it is totally dissolved before putting laundry inside the tub : if a single grain of chlorine touches a garment, it will "drill" it.

No matter I am very careful when I deal with this dreadful powder, now and then the shirts I' m wearing get new holes in those very places where they are touched by chlorine grains

While LCB is an already diluted solution of sodium hypochlorite, bleach powders are pure concentrated stuff.
It is user skill to use the adequate proportion water/powder to achieve the proper concentration

Sodium bisulphite is actually a chlorine antagonist. It is used to dumb down chlorine concentration once the shock treatment is completed
 
@ amyswasher

Be aware that pool chemicals may be very dangerous and must be used/handled with extreme skill. Some of them -that usually work togheter in the pool at very low concentration- are extremly dangerous if mixed together when not very diluted

So if you are not so much in chemistry, don't dare to create your "custom recipes" with pool products. It can be not only harmful (explosion hazard) but it could be even your last action (lethal fumes) in case you mix the wrong products together
 
I thought that ...

the pool chemicals where much stronger. As a child we had a small pool. My mom dropped now and then a 'chloride' tab and every time when a towel felt inside the pool and touched the tab, the coloring disappeared.

What I saw last night and I did not understand. Is there a difference between the bleach that has no color and the yellow version?

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I am glad to hear that. I have a good supply of LCB right now. I'm wanting to use LCB, or DCB more often without the clothes coming out smelling like a swimming pool. I will see next week. Thanks, Amy
 
I don't use chlorine bleach in my washers, but I did google the subject, and learned that bromine based pool disinfectants actually last longer and may work better than chlorine based pool disinfectants.

I find that a combination of STPP, hot water, and oxygen bleach gets out virtually any kind of dirt or stain.
 
Chlorine bleach is base, and vinegar is acidic. Mixing the two together will most certainly produce a chemical reaction, and not always a good one.

Because they are opposite on the pH scale, vinegar will remove trace amounts of chlorine bleach (anti-chlor), but if the concentration of the later should be less than the former. This is why vinegar is used after several rinses to remove <r> trace</r> remaining amounts of bleach, not at once after the cycle is complete.
 

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