Mixed bleach and acid-based toilet cleaner together - help

eclectichoney · 13-05-2015 01:43PM #1

Hi guys

I think I occidentally mixed a bleach-bassed toilet cleaner (Domestos germ kill) that i had not fully cleaned off properly with an acid based limescale remover (Harpic) and it has produced terrible fumes that I can't get rid off. Apparently it causes a chemical reaction. Do you have any tips how I can get rid of this? It is very persistent and I have tried flushing 10 or 20 times over the past four or 5 days with no improvement. I fear I may even have damaged the toilet? Any ideas?

CD8ED · 13-05-2015 01:48PM

Jaysus, will you think of the water charges :pac:

godtabh · 13-05-2015 01:50PM

You have possible created a chlorine cloud. Be very careful of not inhaling it

eclectichoney · 13-05-2015 02:11PM

I have been inhaling lots of it over the past few days unfortunately - I rang the national poisons helpline and they said there is nothing I can do except keep ventilating the room. Would dynorod or any of these agencies be able to help at all I wonder?

Day Lewin · 13-05-2015 02:16PM

Open every window and door to the outside air, and let the wind blow through.

Most bathrooms have some form of ventilation in their construction anyway, by law, I think: even those holes-in-a-brick, if not an actual window. Just get air moving through, for as long as possible.

eclectichoney · 13-05-2015 02:35PM

Thanks kate - that is my plan. Unfortunately it is an apartment with no window in the bathroom and the fan is on the ceiling, and as the poisons agency advised, chlorine is heavy so will stay low. I am going to get a blow fan and open the door and all windows / doors etc. in the rest of the apartment and hope it will shift it. Thanks!

NIMAN · 13-05-2015 10:40PM

Were you on the Guinness and curry to necessitate the need for such drastic cleaners in the first place?

Mixed bleach and acid-based toilet cleaner together - help

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