I can't help you with your neighbours taking a shower. It might be worth checking your water meter when everything is turned off to make sure that you don't have a leak that you don't know about.
But back to the dunny.
You can either replace the whole thing (about $120 at Bunning's for a good Chinese porcelain unit) or if you want a quick fix get some pool acid (hydrochloric) and dump about one litre into the bowl. Watch closely and flush it when it is clean, don't leave it in overnight as it will etch the porcelain. The fumes can be very acrid so make sure all windows are open and be a little careful, acids burn.
Pool acid at Bunning's or a hardware store will be about $10.
Will do. I do not think it is a leak as I haven't heard it since and it only happened once but I could be wrong.
Yeah, I think it's just the disgusting condition of the bowl more than anything.
I can't help you with your neighbours taking a shower. It might be worth checking your water meter when everything is turned off to make sure that you don't have a leak that you don't know about.
But back to the dunny.
You can either replace the whole thing (about $120 at Bunning's for a good Chinese porcelain unit) or if you want a quick fix get some pool acid (hydrochloric) and dump about one litre into the bowl. Watch closely and flush it when it is clean, don't leave it in overnight as it will etch the porcelain. The fumes can be very acrid so make sure all windows are open and be a little careful, acids burn.
Pool acid at Bunning's or a hardware store will be about $10.
Fine from the EPA for doing this and getting caught.- in excess of $50 K
yes, because 5 minutes of diy is worse than $1000's you waste renting. you sure are a sharp one!
I don't know... The owners have had to fix over $20K worth of pool and other issues last year. Guess it is all about what you consider important. My time is important to me.
There is already uric acid in urine, and the acid in your stomach is stronger than pool acid.
1 litre of pool acid in the millions of litres of daily sewerage that large cities process would be undetectable.
What about the ammonia housewives use in their sink, or the soap suds in the washing - that also end up in the sewerage?
Ring your local council. You don't see many toilet cleaning products containing acid on the supermarket shelves. I'm not saying you are taking a risk but I'm sure treatment plants are sensitive to any chemicals. Most products surely would be produced with this taken into consideration. I know if you did what you proposed on a Septic system it would be disastrous.
Ring your local council. You don't see many toilet cleaning products containing acid on the supermarket shelves. I'm not saying you are taking a risk but I'm sure treatment plants are sensitive to any chemicals. Most products surely would be produced with this taken into consideration. I know if you did what you proposed on a Septic system it would be disastrous.
No one wants to sell acid products because they can be misused, and housewives who are not trained in chemistry could make some terrible errors affecting their family. You are right that strong acids used in quantity are not good for bio chemical toilet systems such as septics because it will kill the bacteria needed to breakdown the solid effluents. But chlorine and ammonia products are just as bad, and they are freely sold. Snow White for example has sodium hypochlorite as the active ingredient and that is quite powerful. The Draino mentioned earlier has a strong alkaline ingredient and alkalines are just as powerful as acids. Acids are reducing agents, whilst alkalines are oxidizing agents.
Bile contains iron (rust colour) which discolours toilet bowls that are not cleaned regularly, and acids reduce iron oxides, which cleans the ferrous oxide stains away. The danger is that left too long it will etch the porcelain bowl and leave it more susceptible to increased staining in the future.
It certainly cleans the built up crap out of the bowl though. It's great for cleaning electric jugs with calcium build up as well, but keep it away from children, it can be dangerous for eyes and skin.
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Ring your local council. You don't see many toilet cleaning products containing acid on the supermarket shelves. I'm not saying you are taking a risk but I'm sure treatment plants are sensitive to any chemicals. Most products surely would be produced with this taken into consideration. I know if you did what you proposed on a Septic system it would be disastrous.
Actually, Harpic for septic tanks has/had hydrochloric acid as the active ingredient.
You cannot use it in sinks because it is still too concentrated for metal pipes, so only toilet cleaners seem to be acidic.
If you have dirty tiles that you can't clean with anything else, then try toilet cleaner. You'll see that toilet cleaner is different from other household cleaning products.
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Actually, Harpic for septic tanks has/had hydrochloric acid as the active ingredient.
You cannot use it in sinks because it is still too concentrated for metal pipes, so only toilet cleaners seem to be acidic.
If you have dirty tiles that you can't clean with anything else, then try toilet cleaner. You'll see that toilet cleaner is different from other household cleaning products.
My understanding is that the HCL would return to a gaseous state anyway, that is any residual not used up in a chemical reaction.
I rarely use it, but it sure turns revolting bowls into sparling white bowls very quickly.
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My understanding is that the HCL would return to a gaseous state anyway, that is any residual not used up in a chemical reaction.
I rarely use it, but it sure turns revolting bowls into sparling white bowls very quickly.
At any rate, if you use sensible amounts and flush well, by the time it gets near any metal pipes it will be so dilute as not to cause any problems. HCl is a great pipe cleaner, but it eats the shit out of iron and copper so it is verboten for sinks, etc and you have to use NaOH instead.
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At any rate, if you use sensible amounts and flush well, by the time it gets near any metal pipes it will be so dilute as not to cause any problems. HCl is a great pipe cleaner, but it eats the shit out of iron and copper so it is verboten for sinks, etc and you have to use NaOH instead.
Caustic Soda - that makes sense It will murder aluminium though.
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