Safe Methods to Use Bleach

Always Wear Protection

Ensuring you safety is an absolute must when using bleach to clean and sanitize around the house. Wearing rubber gloves and safety goggles is the best way to avoid any damage on the skin of your hands or eye irritations, or feeling nauseous. Another safety gear that you might consider wearing is the face mask in order to prevent fumes from the bleach to enter your nose and give you trouble breathing.

Never Mix Bleach with Other Cleaners

It's very important that you never mix any other cleaning agents with the bleach. Mixing ammonia and vinegar with bleach is highly dangerous, because the combination between acids (ammonia) and alkali (bleach) creates toxic chemical reaction and the end product of this combination are harmful fumes that can cause serious health issues and problems. In that regard you should know that cleaning cat urine stains with beach is definite “no-no” as the urine of this pet contains an ingredient that closely resembles the molecule structure of the ammonia.

Use Low Concentrations

The bleach is highly effective even if used in small doses. However, most people don't know how much bleach to use and tend to overdo it. This is easily detectable, however, at the expensive of your health. If you feel eye irritations or that you skin is itching or even burning when using bleach then you are probably using too much of the product. The most reasonable advice that home cleaners London can give to you is to always dilute the bleach with water because even in low concentrations it doesn't lose its cleaning powers.

Use in Well-Ventilated Areas

Even if you've taken every necessary precaution for when you are planning to use bleach it wouldn't hurt you to learn few extra safety methods of handling this product just in case. That's why most experts cleaners and medical professionals would recommend to you to use bleach only in well-ventilate areas, too.

Keep Away from Children

It's not enough only to be safe when handling the bleach, you should ensure that the others in you family are also safe. This goes especially for little children as they cannot grasp the concept of how dangerous exactly can this product be. To prevent any unfortunate incidents always keep the bleach in its original packaging and somewhere where it cannot be reached by kids or pets, preferably the top cabinets and shelves in the kitchen or the bathroom and if possible lock them.