Where do you actually use bleach to clean around the house?

[DairyLeanne]

Just read the bleaching carpet thread. Quite roundly and rightly dismissed as an insane practice by MN.

So where do you actually use bleach around the home? Do you actually use bleach for anywhere other than the toilet?

Like I said to other pp about t-cup stains, dry bicarb of soda, a touch of dish liquid, rub the stiff mixture over your eggy plate.
Hey presto, rinse and dry.

Bleach is not as bad for the environment as you'd think. It only lasts in the bottle for about a year before it denatures into salt and water. Once it's out the bottle and mixed with water it only lasts a day, much, much less if it's mixed with hot water. (This is no consolation if you've splashed some on your best, black trousers.

Vinegar is only proven effective against one type of mould (and only if it's not diluted) and when you mix it with baking soda you might as well use salty water. (Baking soda works because it is abrasive, it is physically pushing the stain off, like a tiny scrubbing brush)

I use it diluted in water to wipe down surfaces and bathrooms when someone has been sick and probably once a week for toilets.

Nothing.
I used to use it on loads of stuff - loos, floors, kitchen worktops etc until I became aware just how harmful it is to the environment.

I know, I know, how thick am I that it took me so long to become aware of that . but in my (pitiful) defence my entire childhood my mum cleaned everything, every day, with bleach in a bucket of hot water. So I grew up thinking cleaning = bleach

Hi Foolish Hips
EBay, 4 litre or 6 litre tabletop water distiller.
I've used those for well over ten years, and the crud in the bottom of the distiller, after it's finished its cycle, is DISgusting.
It's brown, it smells, and I'm so glad not to have that in my body.
PS a solution of citric acid cleans the inside, perfectly.
Do some research, I would recommend you look up Andrew Norton Webber for info on distillers.
You should be able to get a 4litre one for fifty something quid, or a 6 litre one for sixty odd quid. (Both eBay).
I suppose size would depend on how many in your household.
I Wii's I could shave a huge tank of the stuff, as I would so love to have a bath in it, and for washing hair, leaves it much softer.
Even if you just do a final cool rinse with it.

It's not dirt it's smell, bacteria or something. I'll try but I'm not optimistic. If it survives the dishwasher I think it will laugh at bicarb.

Kitchen sink and the bathrooms.

It’s only recently I’ve started to use bleach, I could never stand it before but I don’t think it smells as strong as it used to when I was a kid. Or maybe my mum used far too much.

Just down the toilet.

I have a friend who bleaches everywhere! I just put it down the loo & DH uses it to remove mould from windowsills etc. Also great for removing DD16’s semi permanent hairdye from the shower.

Thank you, I've got citic acid at home, but that's usually used to descale kettles etc

Only down the toilet. Btw using it on tea cups will destroy the glazed surface over time.

Also Milton

Toilet mainly. Sometimes for kitchen bin.

other than that, I don’t tend to use it.

our local council insist that we use it for cleaning toilets and floors (I’m a school cleaner) and I hate the stuff, nasty watered down shite that does nothing and smells of wet dog when it dries. And some of the idiots I work with mix it with disinfectant in the mistaken belief it will work better. Goes against all COSHH training.

should be banned in work places

It won’t laugh at bicarb, I use my fingers to rube the stiff bicarb powder and washing up liquid against the plate… it comes off pretty easily that way in my experience.
Even when the egg has dried on for a few hours.
please let us all know you tried it and you are ASTOUNDED !!!! 🤣🤣

What are you all doing with your teacups that gets them stained?
I don't have a dishwasher so everything gets washed up by hand. Maybe dishwasher cause the surface to get slightly scratched, and then the tea stains cling? Not one of my mugs is stained.

Occasionally I use mould remover on the bath sealant but that is all.

Again, the problem.is not dried egg, it's a smell that comes after cleaning the plate, some sort of reaction with the water. If I left the plates dirty they'd be gross but I'd never encounter the smell.

I'll try.

This and to soak dish cloth in.

During summer to kill maggots in my wheelie bin.

I use it down the toilet but I'd like not to, so what else is good for removing stains?

Toilet, the sinks (when needed not routinely), and a dash of thin white bleach in water to makes things white again if needed

Toilets and stainless steel sinks

Do remember that the various cleaning products you buy with spray bottles often contain bleach along with other chemicals, I for instance, when I had a tile floor, would clean it with a little bleach and washing up liquid plus vinegar rather than floor cleaner at ££££

Toilets and sometimes to do the floors

Is bleach even that good at removing stains on tea cups? I thought bleach just bleaches the colour of stains rather than remove the stain.

Always in the bathroom.

I splash bleach 3-4 times a week on the toilet at night. Sitting a few hours on the toilet bowl prevents scaling and disinfects it.

I also use it on the bathroom floor tiles. I give the floor a bleach splash specially around the toilet bowl, mop it, leave it on for 10/15 mins and mope it again with only water after.

I'm not a germophobic but bleach is the only thing I trust to clean and disinfect my bathroom.