john200

Thanks for all the replies guys & gals! I hadn't thought about the bleach reacting with formaldahyde, lucky i didn't take it to an elsan point!! That's a great tip from Innisfree.. Much better to neutralise than dispose. I've actually got a big tub of sodium bisulphate (ph-minus swimming pool stuff) that I use as a silver pickling solution (jewellery). Half a teaspoon of that will neutralise the bleachy bucket. Though in future I don't think I'll be using bleach unless there's another extreme "mess" to deal with.

All the "nasty" stuff was mopped up with rags etc which were binned, so the bucket is just a diluted bleach solution that's left over from the last stage of the clean up & de-smelling process.

Hi Everyone, I'm a new liveaboard (or will be very soon once my house sale completes). The first thing I've done on my new boat is rip out the badly plumbed stinky pump-out pipes and give the bathroom a thorough going over with bleach.. The boat was unused for ages before we bought it and the black water tank was left nearly full, and they used 'blue'. Not a pleasant thing, especially when the tank backed-up and overflowed inside due to a blockage. Anyway, that's not what my question is about. My question is; what should I do with the bucket of bleachy water that's left? I don't want to flush it into the pump-out tank, as I'm going to rinse and empty a few times to help promote the good bacteria. I don't want to chuck it in the canal either, seems really bad, though I'm not sure what effects diluted household thick bleach has on aquatic life etc. I don't have a 'grey' water storage solution at the moment. What do others do with this kind of thing? Thanks in advance.

I use the basingstoke canal a fair amount to kayak along. it's really lovely at the Odiham end, I've only ever seen 2 boats on the cut.

That is a very cute pike! That is a monster, great Fish Mark!

Hi. I'm new, don't have a boat yet, but can't wait to get on the water!