Cleaning fresh water tank with bleach
I had black colored mold on the inside walls of my fresh water tank. My friend put in 2 cups of bleach and blew air into the tank to move the water around. The walls of the fresh water tank were cle...
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rattleNsmoke wrote:
DO NOT dump a freakin' gallon of undiluted bleach in your system!! That is wayyyy too much and will be a bi*ch to dilute. That's just insane. Do a search and you'll see the approx. formula for bleaching out the hot water system. From memory, it's roughly 1/3 cup of bleach per every 15 gals of fresh water held. That's plenty. You are not trying to shock a freakin' swimming pool.
Lots of interesting comment here. Does he/she know what black mold is and what the health risks are? No, the water tank isn't a swimming pool. Now, what the above did not tell you, is that the 1/3 cup bleach is for sanitizing the system. Not killing black mold. Since there are a lot of variables including how much mold is in there, how long it has been growing, a gallon of bleach may not be enough. Questions? Call you local public health center.
