Swimming pools vs. Toilets

[veryblessedmom]

Swimming pools are bigger than toilets and are made to hold more water. That never factored into my thinking a month ago when I had a great idea. LOL, NOT!

I was adding chlorine tabs to the pool when I thought, hey this looks about like the bleach tabs for the toilet. I'll stick one in each of our toilets. So I did.

We had to close the toilets and the bathroom door to live in the house. I opened the back up to pull them out but the fumes made me rethink that. I was afraid my arm would be eaten off.

The bright side: for 1 whole month I never had to clean the toilet. When the kids used too much toilet paper, no plunger was needed. All I had to do was wait a few minutes and go back to flush. The paper was disintegrated. Kids and husband caught a stomach bug. Still, nothing stained the toilets. I'm sure we had 99.9% bleach in our toilets.

One day my husband said, "You do realize chlorine is what they used in concentration camps?" as he came out of the bathroom.

So my conclusion: Swimming pools are bigger than toilets. Also, the opposite of what I teach my kids is also true, "What belongs in the potty does not belong in the pool."
;D

[tonylavoie]

VBMom, that is TOO funny!

[JenLenaMom]

It's so funny you say that because...

I work for a municipality, in the Water Lab. We handle water quality complaints. In some areas of the city very little of chlorine makes it into the homes. The lines are old and not a lot of usage, it just get eaten up. Some of the people, usually in apartment complexes have problems with odor, most often the water in their toilets. I give them some 80% chlorine tablets to drop in, lol. I never thought about the odor if they shut the room up! Well, none of them have called me back to complain about their water again. So there's at least one positve side effect.

[veryblessedmom]

I've used the tablets from Walmart for toilets before, no problem. The one for the pool is meant for more water.

I told one of my best friends who said, "Being a chemical engineer, I can tell you that was a bad idea. The chlorine tablet for your pool is designed to chlorinate several hundred gallons of water, not a couple gallons in a toilet."

My husband works in the waste water lab at the BMW manufacturing plant.