Tesco Value thin Bleach

[Skvez]

This is unscented Bleach (suitable for water purification).
Bleach is usually 5.25% or 6% Sodium Hypochlorite, this "Thin" Bleach is "less than 5% Sodium Hypochlorite" whatever less than 5% means (strictly speaking 0% is still less than 5%).
However it's only £0.29 for 2 Litres
I guestimate that that's good for about one years worth of water purification for one person.
Ironically this price is less than Tesco sell 2 Litres of bottled water for.

[Skean Dhude]

I thought they must put the value in. Obviously not.

[grumpy old man]

cheaps not always good ?
i now buy the best for prepping because when i need it the most is the wrong time to find out i made a mistake

[Skvez]

The "value" stuff was the only unscented bleach I could find

[JD1]

(17 October 2011, 12:56)Skvez Wrote: The "value" stuff was the only unscented bleach I could find

I always buy the cheapo thin bleach from lidl, like you say it is hard to find stuff that is unscented etc. The 5ltr bottles they do would purify months/years worth of water, i cant remember off hand the exact dosage per litre (i've got it written down in a file somewhere) but it is tiny so a pipet comes in very handy, and it is cheap enough that you can replace it each year as it degrades and not worry about the cost

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Just checked and it is 0.05ml per litre of water, so a one litre bottle of bleach can purify 20,000 litres of water (if my maths is right )

[grumpy old man]

i need to use bleech as iodean cause me problems or i just boil it for 10 min

[Skean Dhude]

The Lidl bleach is 69p for 5L.

[sc1]

Off to Lidl I go.

[Twoesme]

Seen this on a doc last night ,thye put 4 drops of bleach in a gallon of water(the eye or ear drops)or the drops you get with young kids calpol bottles.
4 drops in a gallon of water and your good to go.

[bigpaul]

I dont like chemicals and i'm certainly not adding them to my water!