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david@zap-clean
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Cheapskate DyeGone
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June 13, 2014, 04:15:06 pm »
'Scuse me for being a cheapskate.
I've used up all my Chemspec DyeGone and, after trying to work out exactly what it is, think I can 'make my own' for around £3 using basics from the local chemist:
Hydrogen Peroxide (6% / 20 vols) - 99p for 200ml
Ammonia (9.5%) - £2.00 for 500ml
The DyeGone MSDS sheets don't appear to say the 2 ingredients are any more than the above!
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Billy Russell
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Re: Cheapskate DyeGone
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June 13, 2014, 04:20:50 pm »
Hi David,
I believe it does have other ingredients, Ammonia and HP are the hazardous ones, but you would have to speak to Richard at chemspec to confirm my suggestion
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Re: Cheapskate DyeGone
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June 13, 2014, 05:10:53 pm »
If there's a mushroom cloud over Macclesfield we know the experiment went pear shaped!
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Re: Cheapskate DyeGone
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June 13, 2014, 05:27:41 pm »
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Re: Cheapskate DyeGone
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June 13, 2014, 07:02:21 pm »
Cheapskate is the right word, but directed at the wrong item
David, how many pennies does DG cost when used in anger. Stick a fiver on each job and you're in profit.
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Shaun_Ashmore
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Re: Cheapskate DyeGone
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June 13, 2014, 08:21:11 pm »
I'm pretty sure that hp is 10% it says it on the bottle somewhere.
Shaun
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Shaun_Ashmore
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Re: Cheapskate DyeGone
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June 13, 2014, 08:21:41 pm »
Where did you get the products from?
Shaun
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david@zap-clean
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Re: Cheapskate DyeGone
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June 13, 2014, 09:17:12 pm »
Quote from: Shaun_Ashmore on June 13, 2014, 08:21:41 pm
Where did you get the products from?
Shaun
Local chemist - off the shelf items.
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alan lewis
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Re: Cheapskate DyeGone
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June 13, 2014, 09:18:09 pm »
35% HP and 10% Ammonia
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John Kelly
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Re: Cheapskate DyeGone
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June 13, 2014, 09:27:26 pm »
They are the only ingredients which are required to be listed due to them being classed as hazardous. There are other things in there which help make it stable and effective. Hydrogen Peroxide from the chemists is not stabilised so will lose effectiveness everytime you open the bottle. So use fresh each time.
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Shaun_Ashmore
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Re: Cheapskate DyeGone
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June 13, 2014, 10:49:31 pm »
I'd agree with that, many years ago when I worked for an old company cleaning carpets we used to have ammonia and hp in brown bottles every time we opened them we used to put latex strips over the top of the neck then put the tops back on to make them last longer.
Dye gone is a last roll of the dice most times so you don't use that much over a year, sometimes you have to use your initiative when you haven't got things to hand.
Shaun
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Re: Cheapskate DyeGone
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June 15, 2014, 11:12:38 pm »
I was cleaning a stain of a new mattress once where the house sitter had had sex while the owner was away . The owner was not pleased. Anyway i mixed two ingredients i think mine was 10% but it was year and years ago There certainly was a puff of smoke but low and behold the stain went. As they say do not try this
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Re: Cheapskate DyeGone
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June 16, 2014, 04:10:03 pm »
did you carry out a smell test to identify the staining
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