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To: Covenantor

I’ve got a jug of Kroger vinegar. It says it’s 5%. So yes, that would probably work. Just check the label to make sure.

The other aspect of this is the amount of time the surface would have to be exposed to the vinegar in order to be ‘safe’. Some of those antimicrobials in that list work pretty immediately, others probably require several minutes (20-30), maybe more.

If my life depended on it I’d use the meanest one I could easily afford (sodium hypochlorite) at the maximum strength listed. I didn’t see that kind of info. Sodium/calcium hypochlorite is pool bleach/pool shock. I didn’t see calcium hypochlorite on that list I’d check first to see what concentration of that will work.

But be sure to never acidify bleach. Bad mojo that. So don’t mix the bleach/pool shock and the vinegar. Or with ammonia. Read labels/MSDS always.


473 posted on 08/16/2014 6:08:23 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: Black Agnes

Thanks for the acetic acid/vinegar info. I was too lazy having morning coffee and cigs to walk the three steps to the pantry.

As to the sodium/calcium hypochlorite as an old life guard commercial pool manager I had to deal with the liquid chlorine pumps and filtration systems, so no mystery there.


476 posted on 08/16/2014 6:18:01 AM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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