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i also have learned do not put anything in the tank. It eats the rubber etc. what I now do is get the toilet cleaner, and just put it in the toilet, not the tank. I also did think
wonderfull?
We are in a hotel for 3/mos. while our house is being restored after our master bath toilet bolt rusted through and our house was flooded. $28K damage after 2 hrs of water running. We had the house built in 2003. Three toilets in our house, all with Crane toilets. We checked the other toilets after this disaster, and found them all to be very rusted. One was dripping on the floor. Heads up!
Do you really think they are that strong that they could eat the copper bolts???
No, not as fast as you say. The bolts aren't copper, not that that matters much.
Something sounds fishy. If the bolts are corroded through you can look in the tank and see them. Are they?
If they are, the water will be running out the tank still (if the water is on).
As for the comments about eating the plastic parts, think about what Clorox chlorine bleach comes in. A plastic jug and it can sit in that jug on a shelf for twenty years. It's also much, much, much stronger concentration than the Clorox toilet tablets.
I'm not saying they cant do damage to some parts of the toilet. Just not as fast as the OP said.
You would surely get dripping for a long time before an all out flood. I'd suspect it was assembled incorrectly.
Hmm, it seems to me, that if you're doing a major renovation or new construction a floor drain in the bathroom might be a good thing to have. Toilet tank gives out and you'll dump a lot of water down the drain, but that's all that would happen. Same thing if water from the tub splashed all over the floor. With a waterproof flooring, you'd be able to squeegee the floor clean, too. Commercial kitchens always have a waterproof floor and floor drain so it's non-floodable and easy to clean. Why not the same system for a residential bath?
Hmm, it seems to me, that if you're doing a major renovation or new construction a floor drain in the bathroom might be a good thing to have. Toilet tank gives out and you'll dump a lot of water down the drain, but that's all that would happen. Same thing if water from the tub splashed all over the floor. With a waterproof flooring, you'd be able to squeegee the floor clean, too. Commercial kitchens always have a waterproof floor and floor drain so it's non-floodable and easy to clean. Why not the same system for a residential bath?
Commercial facilities have a janitorial crew come through with buckets and mops several times. In a home the trap for the floor drain would dry out and sewer gases would fill the room. Not good.
BTW the "toilet tablets" are hundreds of times more concentrated than any bleach that comes "ready to use" in a bottle -- those super-oxiding pellets are more like the stuff that they dump into commercial swimming pools to keep the bacterial count manageable. The difference is in a pool they are also adding thousands of gallons of water to keep things diluted while in an infrequently used toilet that might not get flushed for several days the concentration of oxiding compounds is off the charts. I have seen the actual flange get compromised. A professional plumber will need to replace that!
A brush and a bit of sanitizing liquid every few days is the way to go...
Q. Will Clorox® Automatic Toilet Bowl Cleaner with Bleach harm my pets if they drink the toilet bowl water?
A. Incidental bowl water ingestion from a toilet cleaned with the product should not be a problem. However, it is not recommended that toilet water be used as a source of drinking water for pets.
So your suggesting that if I were to make my dog drink an Incidental amount of Clorox bleach that I use for the laundry, straight from the jug, It would not harm him because it's hundreds of times less concentrated than water from a toilet using one of these tablets?
Last edited by Neosec; 12-01-2014 at 10:36 AM..
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"So your suggesting that if I were to make my dog drink an Incidental amount of Clorox bleach that I use for the laundry, straight from the jug, It would not harm him because it's hundreds of times less concentrated than water from a toilet using one of these tablets?"
LOL! I use laundry bleach straight from the jug, poured into our cistern to make the water safe, so yes, I drink bleach regularly, and I'm still alive after years of doing it.
Chet is right. The (stupid) idea of tank and bowl lozenges is that the unit will be flushed often enough that the concentration won't build up and the concentration can get to levels comparable or even greater than laundry bleach. The difference in concentration doesn't mean STRAIGHT bleach is safe to drink. (FWIW, this is an OLD thread)
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