Cleaning Toilets (cont.)
The Nitty Gritty of Toilet Cleaning
The answer to keeping a toilet clean may start with the manufacturer. According to American Standard, their new toilets have a special coating over the surfaces that helps keep the toilet cleaner. The EverClean™ anti-microbial surface does most of the cleaning for you. The permanent silver-based double-coated glaze comes standard with all their Flush Right toilets. The glaze inhibits the growth of stains and odor causing bacterias, molds and mildew.
World's first toilet college.
(Kyodo) _ The Singapore-based World Toilet Organization is setting up the world's first toilet college in Singapore that will mainly use Japan as a model to offer formal training to cleaners, local media reported Saturday.
The Singapore government has waged a war against dirty public toilets since the mid-1990s by launching campaigns to find the loveliest lavatories and slapping fines on people who fail to flush after using public lavatories.
Toilet cleaning jobs, however, are shunned by most Singaporeans and tend to be taken up by older workers or those from poor Asian countries. The new college hopes to change that.
It will teach students to use new equipment and techniques from Japan, Channel NewsAsia, the state-run television news channel, reported.
Jack Sim, president of the World Toilet Organization, was quoted as saying that students will be trained to take care of the entire toilet, from changing bulbs, repairing locks and repairing leaky taps to recommending changes to the toilet layout.
The college also plans to offer other related courses such as ecological sanitation to teach volunteers how to cater to sanitation needs in rural and disaster-stricken areas, and also toilet design and architecture.
Classes will be held at one of Singapore's polytechnics starting from October 2005. The first group of students will be some 30 cleaners from a local cleaning company.
The college hopes that its graduates will be able to earn at least S$1000 (about $600) a month, double the current wages of most cleaners.
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Don´t use a tank type bowl cleaner. This gives a false sense of cleaning and will damage rubber parts in the tank. Furthermore, if you own a cat or dog, drinking from the toilet containing this
bowl cleaner may make the animal sick. Tank bowl cleaners do not clean the high touch areas where germs are abundant.
Don´t leave bowl cleaner in the toilet bowl. This can etch the china surface over time. Also, people can get skin burns from splash-back of toilet bowl water that contains bowl cleaner.
From the Reference Book
of Well-meaning Advice.
You can catch diseases from a toilet seat. Generally this is not so says, Dr. Christina Johns, an attending physician in the emergency department at Children´s National Medical Center in Washington DC.
Dr. Johns says, "If you had an open sore on your bottom, there may be a possibility, but it wouldn´t just be from a toilet seat," she says. "If you had a sore like that, you´d be at risk just walking around to get an infection. So the real answer is that unless you have gaping wounds on your bottom, you won´t."
So why do people use tissue toilet-seat covers? Well, that´s just for general hygiene, Dr. Johns says. Some people don´t sit on the toilet and there are urine drops on the seat. Even then, it´s probably more of an issue of hygiene than of infection. You just can´t get AIDS or sexually transitted diseases or anything like that from a toilet seat," she says.
From: Questionable Advice, By Alexandra Rockey Fleming in THE WASHINGTON TIMES (Page D1, 20 Oct 2002
Found in My E-mail Box
NOW Look what you can do with Alka Seltzer: Clean a toilet. Drop in two Alka-Seltzer tablets, wait twenty minutes, brush, and flush. The citric acid and effervescent
action clean vitreous china. Clean a vase. To remove a stain from the bottom of a glass vase or cruet, fill with water and drop in two Alka-Seltzer tablets. Polish jewelry. Drop two Alka-Seltzer
tablets into a glass of water and immerse the jewelry for two minutes. Clean a thermos bottle. Fill the bottle with water, drop in four Alka- Seltzer tablets, and let soak for an hour (or longer, if
necessary).
Unclog a drain. Clear the sink drain by dropping three Alka-Seltzer tablets down the drain followed by a cup of Heinz White Vinegar. Wait a few minutes, then run the hot water.
Hoax Warnings
NAME: Cola-Cola hoax
The message below is a hoax:
Just when you thought you knew everything....
To clean a toilet: Pour a can of Coca-Cola into the toilet bowl. Let the "real thing" sit for one hour, then flush clean. The citric acid in Coke removes stains from vitreous china. To remove rust
spots from chrome car bumpers: Rub the bumper with a crumpled-up piece of Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil dipped in Coca-Cola. To clean corrosion from car battery terminals: Pour a can of Coca-Cola over
the terminals to bubble away the corrosion. To loosen a rusted bolt: Applying a cloth soaked in Coca-Cola to the rusted bolt for several minutes. To bake a moist ham: Empty a can of Coca-Cola into
the baking pan; wrap the ham in aluminum foil, and bake. Thirty minutes before the ham is finished, remove the foil, allowing the drippings to mix with the Coke for a sumptuous brown gravy. To remove
grease from clothes: Empty a can of Coke into a load of greasy clothes, add detergent, And run through a regular cycle. The Coca-Cola will help loosen grease stains. It will also clean road haze from
your windshield. AND WE DRINK THIS STUFF! (FYI... the active ingredient in coke is phosphoric acid. Its pH is 2.8. it will dissolve a nail in about 4 days.) The distributors of coke have been using
it to clean the engines of their trucks for about 20 years! If you receive this message or something alike it please do not pass it on.
From San Jose, Calif.
Subject: Coke Chemical Cleaner
The correct ingredient in Coca-Cola (and most other colas) that clean mineral deposits is phosphoric acid, not citric acid. This is in your "cleaning the toilet" section.
Why are gas station bathrooms always locked?
Are the owners worried that someone will clean them?
The above e-mail question was answered by another viewer from Bowie, Maryland whom I suspect is a gas station owner.
The real reason gas station restrooms are always locked is:
1. There are those who insist that the place for a roll of tissue is in the toilet.
2. There are those who insist that to miss the open area with defecation is an art that can only be appreciated by those who have a childhood diaper complex.
3. There are those who think that the proper use for a magic marker or knife is in the art of graffiti art.
4. And finally, there are those who insist in keeping the key or twisting it off in the lock to test 'their' metal!
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