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Chloras for patio cleaning

  • 30-04-2014 9:46pm
    #1
    Pabmac
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    Is it safe to use Chloras to clean patio which dogs use?


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  • #2
    boomerang
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    Do you mean Clorox, which is bleach?

    Yep, bleach is safe and effective if you make up a solution of one part bleach to ten parts water. Let it sit for at least ten minutes for disinfection purposes, and then rinse the patio off with your garden hose - it should be fine. Otherwise you could potentially burn your dogs' paws.


  • #3
    KK4SAM
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    boomerang wrote: »
    Do you mean Clorox, which is bleach?

    Yep, bleach is safe and effective if you make up a solution of one part bleach to ten parts water. Let it sit for at least ten minutes for disinfection purposes, and then rinse the patio off with your garden hose - it should be fine. Otherwise you could potentially burn your dogs' paws.

    Yes, Chloros ( Sodium hypochloride) as a 1.0 % solution would be fine..


  • #4
    Pabmac
    Registered Users Posts: 97 ✭✭Pabmac


    Brill.Thanks boomerang and KK4SAM. I'm paranoid about these things in case it harms the dogs. :)


  • #5
    Irishchick
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    No. Bleach is rendered ineffective by organic matter, which your outside patio would be full of!


  • #6
    Cedrus
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    Irishchick wrote: »
    No. Bleach is rendered ineffective by organic matter, which your outside patio would be full of!

    Why would that make it unsafe? Surely the contact with organic matter (which would indeed render the Chloras ineffective AKA neutralised) would make it safer?


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  • #7
    Irishchick
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    Cedrus wrote: »
    Why would that make it unsafe? Surely the contact with organic matter (which would indeed render the Chloras ineffective AKA neutralised) would make it safer?


    Sorry I should have explained myself better! It won't make it unsafe...but it wont clean/disinfect your patio either!


  • #8
    boomerang
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,189 ✭✭✭boomerang


    Forgot that, Irishchick! Dayum!


  • #9
    Tradnuts
    Registered Users Posts: 183 ✭✭Tradnuts


    Sorry for digging up an old thread but does anyone know where I could buy some Chloras? In the Maynooth/Kildare/meath area. Thanks.


  • #10
    jimf
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    Tradnuts wrote: »
    Sorry for digging up an old thread but does anyone know where I could buy some Chloras? In the Maynooth/Kildare/meath area. Thanks.

    try your local farmers co op as its primary use would be cleaning and disinfecting milking parlours and machines


  • #11
    Tradnuts
    Registered Users Posts: 183 ✭✭Tradnuts


    jimf wrote: »
    try your local farmers co op as its primary use would be cleaning and disinfecting milking parlours and machines

    Great. Thanks for that jimf.


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