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What's the point in using bleach in ...?
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What's the point in using bleach in ... The Toilet Bowl?
I can understand perhaps wanting to disinfect surfaces you may cook on, prepare food on, touch, etc - so why do people literally pour money down the drain using bleach in toilet bowls when they aint likely to come into contact with the surface?
I can understand perhaps wanting to disinfect surfaces you may cook on, prepare food on, touch, etc - so why do people literally pour money down the drain using bleach in toilet bowls when they aint likely to come into contact with the surface?
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Plus toilets can smell a bit pissy after a while if you dont bleach them
Plus you never realize how important a clean disinfected toilet bowl is until your head is inside it. I don't want nasty dirty that close to my borrowed vodka.
Well if that was the case then those blocks you put in the cistern make sense BUT what doesn't to me are those really thick bleaches which are always blue or green in colour you manually apply yourself - they smell nice but I don't think from a health point they do anything useful.
I'm also thinking that the water we flush down the toilet will be going down the sewers and we'll be drinking it again anyway - so is it good to add bleach unnecessarily?
I could see those thick bleaches being used when you're going away for a long time but day to day don't see the point in them.
And I don't think toilet water ends up as drinking water... that just seems wrong.
Drinking water is treated and has to pass quite strict tests before its safe for use., so what you out in the toilet bowl wont make much of an effect.
The toliet doesnt get bleached very often, probably only every couple of weeks (overnight) it does get cleaned a couple of times a week as well.
Oh yes it does ...the big cities use a lot of recycled water ...London especialy.
My water supply comes from a beeeg lake about five miles away ...fresh and clean.
I think although I may be wrong that they treat water then it goes back to the sea, then they collect more water from streams into resevoirs which are again treated. *been to a severn trent water treatment plant*
I personally have never heard of them straight recycling sewage water, but assuming it was treated properly it would be fine anyway. Main thing to worry about in my tin-foil-hat opinion is the fluorine... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7377002.stm
Bleach is the best thing to clean a toilet with. It's also very cheap, a bottle of plain bleach only costs about 30p.