Bleach As Disenfectant

[annieigma]

Hi All,
Can anyone help with the dilution rate of household bleach and cold water to make disinfectant please. It appears that everyone on google assumes that bleach contains 5% or %.25% of sodium hypochlorite and gives mixing instructions based on that, but I have two botles of bleach, from different suppliers and different manufacturers, both contain 4.6% sodium hypochlorite, so to make one ltr of disinfectant what would the mix ratio be please.

[Atheist]

4.6% and 5% are pretty close, so I would follow the 5% instructions. It's only bleach, so doesn't need to be constructed as exactly as a sponge cake recipe.

[bhg481]

I would argue that 4.6% is close enough to 5% to use that dilution.

[gingejbee]

Household bleach is a lot stronger (and more dangerous) than many people think...most people use far too much (eg you can clean a toilet bowl with only 5ml, that's one teaspoon).
For general purposes, a dilution of 10ml to 12ml bleach per litre of COLD water is sufficient. The diluted solution doesn't keep...you need to make fresh as you need it.

[nailit]

(eg you can clean a toilet bowl with only 5ml, that's one teaspoon)
SERIOUSLY!!
Not in my house you cant!

[douglas9401]

The teaspoon's for measuring, nailit, not the cleaning. :-)

[nailit]

Thanks Doug :-)

[gingejbee]

For clarity....5 ml in the water IN THE BOWL is enough to bleach below the waterline...not if you insist in covering all the porcelain with thick bleach (obviously!).

[weecalf]

Don’t think you will be bleaching any set rules by doing as google has indicated .Here me looking