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Homeowner Forum / Cleaning / July 2005Cleaning the 5-gallon water bottle
I wonder how people clean the 5-gallon water bottle? I have one that started to have green mildew inside the shoulder portion...  SignatureDonglok Kim > I wonder how people clean the 5-gallon water bottle? > I have one that started to have green mildew inside the > shoulder portion... Fill the bottle with a warm, mild bleach solution with a few drops of dish detergent. Allow to stand for at last an hour or more. Drain out most of the water, then shake the remaining water around in the bottle. Rinse several times thoroughly. SignatureWayne Boatwright *¿* ____________________________________________ Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day. Sam Goldwyn, 1882-1974 --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0529-1, 07/20/2005 Tested on: 7/20/2005 10:32:54 PM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2005 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com > > I wonder how people clean the 5-gallon water bottle? > > I have one that started to have green mildew inside the [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > or more. Drain out most of the water, then shake the remaining > water around in the bottle. Rinse several times thoroughly. That's Clan Ranger's method. The Ranger -> On Wed 20 Jul 2005 09:29:55p, dlkim wrote in alt.home.cleaning: -> -> > I wonder how people clean the 5-gallon water bottle? -> > I have one that started to have green mildew inside the -> > shoulder portion... -> > -> -> Fill the bottle with a warm, mild bleach solution with a few drops of dish -> detergent. Allow to stand for at last an hour or more. Drain out most of -> the water, then shake the remaining water around in the bottle. Rinse -> several times thoroughly. You don't really need the dish detergent, I think. Just a 10:1 water:bleach solution. Let it sit for about 30 minutes. Rinse thoroughly. Signature8^)~~~ Sue (remove the x to e-mail) ~~~~~~ "I reserve the absolute right to be smarter today than I was yesterday." -Adlai Stevenson http://www.suzanne-eckhardt.com/ http://www.intergnat.com/malebashing/ http://www.intergnat.com/pussygames/ > -> On Wed 20 Jul 2005 09:29:55p, dlkim wrote in alt.home.cleaning: > -> [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > Rinse thoroughly. > -- The biofilm that forms in the watering equipment for livestock can be dangerous. One of the most dangerous organisms is blue-green algae, which is actually cyanobacteria. It's very common and produces several toxins. So the pipes supplying poultry are flushed periodically with disinfectant. A mixture equivalent to 1 part household bleach to 10,000 parts water has been found to kill 100% of the monitored microbes. The best mixture to disinfect citrus fruit at packing houses amounts to 1 teaspoon household bleach and 1 teaspoon baking soda per quart of water. I use it to clean bottles. Besides making the bleach work better, the baking soda makes it easier to rinse away the bleach smell. >> -> On Wed 20 Jul 2005 09:29:55p, dlkim wrote in alt.home.cleaning: >> -> [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] >water. I use it to clean bottles. Besides making the bleach work >better, the baking soda makes it easier to rinse away the bleach smell. I read an interesting thread somewhere recently about how the natural waxes are partially stripped by the cleaning process. Another 'natural' wax is then applied to the fruit. Shellac being one of the common waxes. If anyone is vegetarian/vegan they should bear it in mind. |
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