Chemical Safety 101
<div class="IPBDescription">Enlighten me</div> This is like the second or third time I've done this, but I'm only now considering about the dangerous this might be.
A simple task asked by my dad: Clean the bathtub.
Now, I'm supposed to use gloves (optional) and a a discarded rag, in this case, a sock, dabbed with wee bit of <b>drain cleaner</b>.
Well. my dad's been cleaning tubs for a while with this stuff, but upon looking at the bottle label, there are some things that just don't suit well with me.
The stuff is obviously corrosive as heck, and they make it known that the vapours themselves are dangerous. Of course I'm not trying to get high on this stuff, but the smell is very distinct and inescapable, and looking at some information on it so far on websites, they recommend that if you use it, you should wear goggles.
I also see no information whatsoever that it is okay to combine a bit of drain cleaner with a wet rag for use for in cleaning, (upon drain cleaner contact with the sock, I noted that much of it was converted to a muck of lint)
Maybe I'm just a wuss and should go back to using wimpy stuff like Pinesol, but does anyone actually use drain cleaner like this?
A simple task asked by my dad: Clean the bathtub.
Now, I'm supposed to use gloves (optional) and a a discarded rag, in this case, a sock, dabbed with wee bit of <b>drain cleaner</b>.
Well. my dad's been cleaning tubs for a while with this stuff, but upon looking at the bottle label, there are some things that just don't suit well with me.
The stuff is obviously corrosive as heck, and they make it known that the vapours themselves are dangerous. Of course I'm not trying to get high on this stuff, but the smell is very distinct and inescapable, and looking at some information on it so far on websites, they recommend that if you use it, you should wear goggles.
I also see no information whatsoever that it is okay to combine a bit of drain cleaner with a wet rag for use for in cleaning, (upon drain cleaner contact with the sock, I noted that much of it was converted to a muck of lint)
Maybe I'm just a wuss and should go back to using wimpy stuff like Pinesol, but does anyone actually use drain cleaner like this?
Comments
to clean drains.
look, you can use It, I would sugest ussing pinesol my self (or what ever you prefer).
and the only thing to be carful about is make sure you got a cross breeze going (so that you are not in a small enclosed room with fumes, this is just the basic rule)
personaly, I say basic cleaner (pinesol/whatever) + Bleach, this will clean and disenfect anytihng. Just don't use amonia and bleach <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo--> (as that will kill you by creating chlorine gass)
you can also try <u>comet</u>.
just don't use that drain cleaner, man!
that's frickin dangerous :\