Is cleaning a toilet with bleach a bad idea?

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sao123

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Is there a chemist in the house????
Geez... these are two completely different things.


You p1ss ammonium NH4
H
..
H--N--H+
.. /
H

You clean with ammonia NH3 (will react with bleach to produce fumes)
H
..
H--N--:
.. /
H
 

mitmot

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Originally posted by: sao123
Is there a chemist in the house????
Geez... these are two completely different things.


You p1ss ammonium NH4
H
..
H--N--H+
../
H

You clean with ammonia NH3 (will react with bleach to produce fumes)
H
..
H--N--:
../
H

no, that's what you're here for :D
 

Charmonium

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The best approach is preventative maintenance. I use Lysol under-rim cleaner and as long I check on it periodically so that it never runs out, my bowl stays a nice antiseptic white forever. The only time I've EVER had to clean it was when I didn't pay attention to the state of the little puck and it ran out.

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In the few cases where I've had to actually clean the toilet, this works wonders.

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Use it to clean up the stains then just pop the pad off into the garbage. But like I said, you should never need this as anything other than a backup.
 

who?

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A guy at work didn't know about the danger of mixing bleach and ammonia until he did it and had to open all the windows and still almost died.
 
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