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I bought a bottle of this yesterday and used it today to clean the loo on the boat.
It smelt nice and did help clean the bowl, although it is very watery and I wonder if plain water would have done the job as well, my only problem is why does a 1/2 litre bottle cost the fat end of a tenner?
 
Did you buy it in a swindlery perhaps?

There are very few cleaning chemicals, especially among those on sale to the public.

Broadly they fall in to 3 categories detergent/ de-greaser, disinfectant and polish.

Chemical companies then use additives to make them smell nice or prevent streaks etc.
Some may contain a hard scourer - remember Vim? or a soft scourer.
I currently pay £2.90 per gallon for general purpose detergent which does the dishes and the cars and the floors and the caravan, inside and out, and every other application where it needs washed. To wash the caravan khazi it gets done with detergent and then a finish with furniture polish to make it non-stick and shiny again.

HF MBICS (Member of the British Institute of Cleaning Science - I know, I surprise myself sometimes)
 
"£2.90 a gallon" "dishes and the cars and the floors and the caravan, inside and out, and every other application where it needs washed"

What name, and where to buy please ? Does it also kill aphids, caterpliers, and sluggles as well ? :)
 
It might have fallen over into the £3.10 per gallon range now, but the ball park is still the same size.
I get mine through a connection in the wholesale trade, its made by Premier Products of Cheltenham.
The cleaning chemical industry is quite interesting as a business model. Stuff sold retail to the public has a huge, and I mean huge, mark up. The volume sector sold to the proffesional cleaning sector can be had for pence in comparison.
The point is that general purpose detergent is exactly that, fairy liquid is just GP detergent with a fantastic brand image and a fantastic price to match.

Cillit Bang. He doesnt come on telly and say "Hi, I'm Kevin Scott and I've invented a new chemical that all of the other world sized cleaning chemical producers dont know about".

He could come on telly and say "Hi, I'm Kevin Scott and I've bought a tanker load of stuff from Johnston Wax and put it into trigger spray containers and now I am here shouting at you trying to convince you that I know something no-one else does".

Cillit Bang is just another route to market for a large chemical company who have probably maxed out with traditional product lines.

Shampoo. Is just GP detergent with a few additives to make it smell differently and be not quite so sticky. Shampoo however enjoys a mark up even bigger than Fairy.

Yes it works against aphids etc and if you add just a tiny touch to herbicides it helps it stick to the leaves and makes those more effective too.

Any GP detergent with round about 16% or better active ingredient will do the job. I would have thought you could get it at your local farm suppliers, perhaps the cost will not be quite as favourable, but should be a long way from supermarket prices.

HF
 
I use a mild HCl - summink like Viakal will do it. If in the med u can buy more concentrated Hcl.

To keep an not-much used toilet smelling nice, shut the inlet and fill the bowl with fresh water, and flush thru

Where the headmistress?
 
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