Great product!!!May 30, 2009 C. Pflugrad(Caldwell,Id.) This was in a new toilet my husband and I purchased last year. It is the best thing since sliced bread!! It smells nice and easy to install and it doesn't harm your toilet guts. I just wish I could find it locally, but until I can I will always order it on line. Give it a try because it works great!
Fluidmaster Flush Sparkle "bleach" cartridgesApril 5, 2009 Gerald I. Kimata(Palm Springs, CA USA) 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
These guys are getting difficult to find in Lowes, etc. Retailers stock the whole system, but fall short when it comes to replacement cartridges. I went into Lowes where I bought the system, and there were no bleach cartridges to be found, so got them here through Amazon. Don't bother getting the blue colored ones, they just color the water with no discernible effect on the mineral deposits.
Nice idea, but most of the product is wastedJanuary 12, 2009 Marlin Beckfield(Portland, OR United States) 0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a nice idea, but the chemical is introduced to the bowl as flushing is performed. This means that most of the chemical goes into the bowl and straight down the drain in the same cycle. Very, very wasteful. This is especially obvious with the blue-colored (though less effective) chemical.
It would be easier to tell when the product is depleted if some coloring were introduced.
Wrong photo, great productNovember 25, 2008 J. Martin(Upstate New York USA) 3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Amazon's photo with this item (as of November 2008) is of the wrong product. The photo shows the blue refills, which are worthless unless you just like blue water. This product, Fluidmaster 8302, is bleach--not blue--refills for their Flush 'n Sparkle cleaning system. I added my own "customer image" of the correct product; look closely and you can see both "8302" and "bleach" clearly printed on the tab at the top of the box.
The bleach refills are the best toilet-cleaning product you can buy. Even if the Flush 'n Sparkle system you installed in your toilet originally had a blue cartridge in it, you can use bleach refills, which I strongly advise.
Their only disadvantage is that you can't tell just by looking at the water when the cartridge is empty. But removing the cartridge every few months to see if it's empty is a lot easier than scrubbing the toilet bowl every week, which is what you'll be doing if you use the blue cartridges.
These work very well and last longer than predictedOctober 25, 2008 John T. Bryan(Thornton, CO USA) 2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I've been using these in my home for several years now. My wife used to insist on throwing those bleach disk things into the tanks of all our toilets, which caused me to have to replace the flapper valves at least once a year as they got brittle and stiff in the continuous presence of oxidizer in the tank water. I was quite happy when I found the cleaning system at a local store as an alternative. The bleach is added to the water that is sprayed into the standpipe and ends up in the bowl; none of it goes into the tank to ruin the valve, flapper, or other parts.
I was afraid the cartridges wouldn't last very long, given the number of users in our house (and a number of them small children who tend to use the toilet more often), but even in our highest-use toilet they seem to last three to four months. On our lower-use toilets, I get the blue ones so I can tell when they're running out. The high-use ones get the bleach cartridges and I just replace them every three months or so. Occasionally I get in to replace one and find it still has a fair bit of material left in it; I just leave those for another month or so until it is all gone, or nearly so.
My wife likes these almost as much as I do; she thinks this system works better than the ones you drop in the tank (which makes sense; the cleaner/bleach is concentrated in the bowl where it's needed, not sitting in the tank where some of it will pass through the bowl but most of it will go right down the drain), so we're both happy.
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