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Toil Let's
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Everything in our small town has its own septic system/s. Chlorine is bad for the bio-culture within septic tanks but...
...small amounts of chlorine introduced in just the right locations and left long enough to cancel any bio-matter with enough time to dissipate before entering the septic tank
is win-win.
I propose a small reservoir of chlorine, (or vinegar if you're worried), which clamps around the overflow drain of any and all conventional toilets and dispenses just the right amount of chlorine bi-weekly into it at a time when the bathroom is least likely to be used for the longest of times.
See, there is this little trough just under the inner lip of your toilet where the in-flowing water enters and it never really drys up if the toilet is often used. It is an untouchable bacteria colony.
The introduction of a very small amount of chlorine to this unrecognized trough staves off any bacterial growth for several weeks so that those black streaks you scrub so hard to remove just never start and your septic systems work just fine.
You are welcome planet Earth.
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With so many "septic safe" cleaning products available, and automatic systems that inject just the right amount of cleanser into a toilet with each flush, I'm not sure what advantage you're getting from chlorine bleach. |
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(aside - not my bun or fishbone there) |
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Do you mean actual chlorine, Cl2, or "chlorine bleach" - Sodium hypochlorite NaOCl? |
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Sorry for the ambiguity. Yes chlorine bleach.
Those flush-pucks like 2000 flushes don't seem to remove the black streaks because the water never goes down the overflow drain unless your float valve gets stuck, so there are areas under the lip where bacteria remains. |
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Adapting from poe.com: bio blaster, funk flusher, toilet tamer |
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But there are automatic toilet cleaning systems that *do* dispense through the overflow tube. I've linked one from a well known brand, but it does use bleach. Might need to look harder for one that's safe for septic tanks. |
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I didn't think I needed to search this one. At least it must be a good product idea.
When my sentence, I mean project, is completed I will need to maintain like 50 plus toilets and so far I've been doing this bleach thing manually. |
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So... knowing too much chloring bleach was bad for the septic system but thinking a little bit wouldn't hurt, you've been cleaning them with "just a little bit." Multiplied by fifty toilets? |
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( shrug ) probably still okay, I would hope the septic system for a large facility would be appropriately sized. |
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But doing them MANUALLY? Why? (link) |
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Ugh geez, people buy those things? |
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Yes, I pour a small amount of bleach into the overflow drains of toilets every couple of weeks if they aren't getting cleaned almost daily. We have some long term renters and the campground bathrooms get so much use in the summer that bad stuff grows pretty quickly.
That first product I might buy a few of.
Please don't tell our cleaning staff about the second product. |
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// don't tell our cleaning staff about the second product // |
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Too late. Aren't YOU the cleaning staff, per your earlier anno? |
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I was, and still am to some extent, but I have priorities to tend to as we expand and have delegated chores which were previously mine to others as required. |
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'They' don't pour bleach down the toilet overflow drains.
I do. |
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I 'can' rebuild this place and bring it back to life... but I can't man it all at the same time.
Cloning technology is not that advanced here yet. |
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...and by maintaining I mean continuing to flush, not cleaning. |
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Well whatever I said was certainly a conversation killer wasn't it? |
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