Lime Away Refomulated. Ecolab WIN

[whirlykenmore78]

Upon going to delime The Hobart dishmachine at work today I noticed that Ecolab had reformulated Lime Away. It now contains some type of urea sulfate instead of the phosphoric acid that made it work so well for years.

I have to say it worked better than I expected. There was very little difference between this and the old phosphoric acid formulation. The only difference was a bit of white film left where the product was used to spot clean the outside of the machine and less fuming. This film cleaned up easily with soapy water.

Kudos to Ecolab for satisfying the green police while still making a product that works.

 

[labboy]

I always really liked all the Ecolab home and commercial products. The home products seemed to not work as well once they sold that business line to Reckitt-Benckiser.

 

[whirlcool]

Is there still time to rush out and buy old stock?

 

[arbilab]

Phosphoric acid sounds like it should really work, but the time I tried several bottles in a mineral-crusted apartment toilet it did almost nothing. Next thing tried was The Works and it took EVERYthing out in 3 treatments. It doesn't say what's in it. I thought they had to, in case a kid got in the cabinet and drank some.

But that's toilets and those products say they are for porcelain only. Hot vinegar does a nice job on deposited shower heads and aerators. I put it in the DW too.