Here's a cheap product for cleaning your boat.

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Like most at our club, when I lifted our boat last week, there's yellow staining around the hull just above the waterline.

It stubbornly resisted the pressure washer.

So I've been wondering what to clean it with.

This morning I was in Aldi (to buy something else) and noticed they have 1 litre bottles of "Caravan Cleaner" for £2.99 so I bought one.

It cleans the yellow staining off a treat and restores my hull back to nice shining white with no effort, just wipe it on with a soft cloth, rub a few times then rinse off with clean water. (painted GRP hull by the way)

So worth buying some if you have an Aldi near to you.

EDIT:

What's in it?

"Contains amongst other ingredients:
Amphoteric surfactants <5%
EDTA <5%
Perfume

www.mykal.co.uk"

Well at least it will make your bot smell nice then.

I can't identify from their website which product it is.

Anybody know what those ingredients are?
 
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Why would you pay £2.99 for a litre of solution when that would buy enough oxalic acid crystals to last you the rest of your boating life?

Still a lot better than £10.99 or whatever in the chandler.


Vic
 
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"Well at least it will make your bot smell nice then."

I think it will need something stronger than that.:D
 
+ 1 for the Aldi caravan cleaner.
Used for a couple of years; great stuff.
Dilute for general cleaning and concentrated to bad stains.
And at a fraction of the price of other well known fibregalss cleaners
 
Scotty_Tradewind said:
Oxalic acid, after several applications, may just start taking the gloss off paint, especially one pack.
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My GRP guy, who is a whizz at matching colour and making bad things disappear, goes all a quiver when you mention Y10 or any oxalic acid based solution.

I always thought it was good, he sees it a a last resort, an only if you must type product. Not just on paint.
 
Well I cleaned my whole topsides today (previously I only tested it on a small area)

I used about 1/10th of the bottle, diluted about 5:1 and that was eneough to clean the whole boat.

Using it diluted rather than neat (as my initial test) just means you have to rub it on, wait a couple of minutes and rub it off, perhaps you need to rub a little harder than using it neat, but still an easy job.

When I finished, the leftover I diluted further and used to clean the front of my Caravan.

So that's boat and caravan cleaned for 30p Bargain.
 
Jif/cif/tescos cream cleaner or even better 5 litres of non branded-works just as well as on your bath or sink!
 
Your Gelcoat guy uses Oxalic himself, the point is if YOU use it he will not get anywhere near as much polishig back work. The Oxalic acid cannot hurt Gelcoat, try pouring it on your fingers, leave it ten minutes and Hey Presto, clean, undamaged fingers. He is scaremongering to keep his work safe !!!
 
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