in here!Not sure whether this is well-known, but biological clothes washing liquid - any brand, so long as it contains enzymes - makes for a superb wash-out for paint brushes, oil, grease and the like, where you might otherwise use a fair old quantity of expensive and objectionable solvent.
Example: Brush used for Hammerite
Put a tiny splash of thinner in an old jar, splosh on a generous squirt of Bio liquid, and wiggle the brush around in it. Add some warm water, and stir up again. Discard liquid (which is now water-miscible), and finish off with a fresh squirt of Bio and water. Leaves a perfectly clean brush, with negligible solvent use.
Bio liquid also works on gloss paint (often without turps/brush cleaner), varnish, oily or greasy engine parts (no need for Gunk), creosote and wood preserve, paint rollers . . .
Matter of personal choice whether you use it on your laundry, though!
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Re: Workshop clean-ups
Is it good for getting oil stains off concrete drives Chris?
I've always used the pukka stuff but if a bit of Daz will do the job then I'm good...
Except I've just realised - due to a skin allergy I only use non-bio
So I'd have to buy it anyway... I guess Tesco Value would be OK?
I've always used the pukka stuff but if a bit of Daz will do the job then I'm good...
Except I've just realised - due to a skin allergy I only use non-bio
So I'd have to buy it anyway... I guess Tesco Value would be OK?
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Re: Workshop clean-ups
Never tried it on concrete... Like you, we only use non-bio. The only bottle of bio in the house is the one in the workshop!
Also note that enzyme-based cleaners must usually have water added to them before they will do anything special. The water activates the enzymes, and they remain active for many hours or a few days at the most. If you were to dilute some bio liquid, and leave it for a long period in a bottle, it would lose its bio cleaning action, and behave like a non-bio detergent. Bit anoraky, sorry about that.
Also note that enzyme-based cleaners must usually have water added to them before they will do anything special. The water activates the enzymes, and they remain active for many hours or a few days at the most. If you were to dilute some bio liquid, and leave it for a long period in a bottle, it would lose its bio cleaning action, and behave like a non-bio detergent. Bit anoraky, sorry about that.
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Re: Workshop clean-ups
A bit like yeast then...
That's OK Chris, a good bit of anoraking is thoroughly enjoyed...White Exec wrote:Bit anoraky, sorry about that.
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Re: Workshop clean-ups
The same.CitroJim wrote:A bit like yeast then...
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Re: Workshop clean-ups
CitroJim wrote:A bit like yeast then...
That's OK Chris, a good bit of anoraking is thoroughly enjoyed...White Exec wrote:Bit anoraky, sorry about that.
as long as you dont suffer with anorak n phobia
regards malcolm