To wish my dh would stop bleaching everthing!

[technoduck]

Ok, so this morning I put the oven racks in the sink to soak, had just started to scrub them and my darling dh had stuck a load of bleach in with them before he went to work without telling me. As I write this my hands are now turning white and stinging... grrr the mans obsessed with bleach if he got his way he would use it on everything, personally I don't really like the stuff and will only use it when I really need to.
Anyones else have an oh that has strange cleaning habits?
(Disclaimer- I know using bleach isn't weird, but he even wants to use it to clean plates )

Anal bleaching!! Kinda want to look it up on google but imagine I would then need bleach to wash my eyes with.

I am a nhs cleaner, and at home I go through 2-3 bottles of bleach a week otherwise the house don't feel clean. I bleach everything apart from the sofa as it is leather and unsure about it

The dishwasher sorts out the dishes

But bleach just, well, bleaches stuff. Doesn't clean it, just means you can't see it any more.

2-3 bottles of bleach a week?
I don't think I even get through 2 in a year!

Bleach is only rarely used in our house. I have been cleaning my worktops and other stuff for over 25 years without bleach and no-one has ever caught a bug from my kitchen.

A bit surprised at food industry person using anti-bac spray. They leave a residue which allows stronger bugs to survive and breed, which bleach,soap,detergent do not.

Anti-bacs are contributing to the problems we have with resistant bacteria in medicine.

Agincourt, that was my first thought too

Been working with hairy engineers too long...

Just read this thread and now the word bleach looks weird! I've nothing else to add.

I know i need to stop using it so much, I add alittle washing up liquid in the water as it does a better job.

I use Very hot water with washing up liquid to clean everything in the kitchen. I use an orange oil spray on the tiles if I have splashed grease up them, and on the floor, but hot water and detergent actually gets it clean.

Of course bleach cleans, bleach also contains disinfectant.

If some one can show me a link that proves otherwise. The only reason in work we use lemon disinfectant for general cleaning is that c.diff and mrsa will adapt to bleach and then something else would have to be developed

Of course it cleans - what do you think Milton is?

it's a bleach. It doesn't clean.

Clean is different to bleached. Bleached means you just can't see it. Clean means it isn't there.

So what are sterilising tablets and chlorine in pools?

www.ehow.com/how-does_4564328_bleach-work.html

I googled - it bleaches AND kills germs.

Still doesn't mean it's actually clean though.

I work in an environment where I carry very dirty and dusty boxes sometimes. We also sell clothes that are white. On one occasion I have tried to use anti bac hand gel to clean my hands, before folding white garments, but the actual dirt is still on my hands. So the physical dirt is still there, just not harmful.
I had to then go and wash my hands and the soap suds came up grey, because the soap was removing the actual dirt, not just sterilising it.

Anti bac isn't bleach though, is it? If I washed my wands in bleach they would be clean and stinging like a bastard!

I am intrigued at all these comments. Simp what is the right answer. I use bleach only in the loo. everywhere else either the fairy or CIf or antibacterial spray. Oh and a mix if dettol and fairy for tilled floors.

Sorry for typos. Using phone and being lazy.

I go through a minimum of two bottles of bleach a day at work. It's used for cleaning all wipeable surfaces, poles, radiators, handles, internal wheel arches etc that passengers may touch. I also use multiple buckets of very hot clean water to rinse & clean my bleaching cloth in, and I can assure you, from the filthy water and dirt in the bottom of the bucket, that bleach cleans as it kills germs.

It's also shit hot at removing oil and grease from fabric seats, and other odd places.

MrsMellow

I was told by a Dr here to disinfect salad, using the liquid designed for it. Soak for 5 mins, rinse well, enjoy salad. Then I saw a nutritionist who asked me if I swim ALL DAY, because of the chlorine levels in my body. I never swim, so I stopped cleaning my salad properly and buying bleach as it was being used to remove tea stains from cups, among other things.

McHappyPants bleach sanitises, but does not clean as soap does because of its lack of surfactants.

The whole point of bleach is that bacteria cannot adapt to it.

Just Google why anti-bacterial sprays are no good.

Wow Ive just always just put bleach down the loo, learning alot about cleaning. My hand today have gone scabbie (its that a word?) and cracked open in some places and very red still, but on the upside my oven racks are sparkling

I dont get this bleach doesnt clean thing, I undertand it only bleaches poo stains so they are still there but you cant see them! but if you also scrub/wipe/etc then it will clean.

I know you shouldnt use too much of it but I like bleach.

Toilets get bleached.

Floors get cleaned with it.

Some bleach in a bucket/bowl of hot water with a splash of washing up liquid too is lovely!

I'll tell you what is also fab for cleaning floors, laundry washing powder/liquid in a bucket of hot water! found that out when it was all I had to clean with.