jimmyhoffa59
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Check your local grocery store they have bottle brushes that have flexible heads. That should help out a good deal. Yeah not worth it to cut corners...just like I don't get why people complain about washing hydroton. Everyone is either cash cropping or providing mess for themselves or other patients. Regardless of each individuals motive....thoroughness is key. I might not have maximized my yields on the first run, but overall plant health was good and made it through to crop.... sorry for the tangent just seen a lot of people complaining lately.
This is quoted from my email from CCH2O...
"As far as cleaning do not disassemble, fill system with water and bleach, cycle, scrub modules with green pad, hit joints with bottle brush, rinse thoroughly, drain and allow to completely dry."
Hell ya, toilet brushes for everybody
I'm a green pad, bottle brush, shop vac guy myself....I'm now adding toilet brush to my tool kit for sure.
After pulling out my root mass and trashing my net pots and air stones I....
1) remove debris from the system with a shop vac
2) wipe down air hose and lids with physan 20, my green pad and a wash clothe
3) fill the system with tap water and physan 20to the top of the buckets run for 4-6 hrs
4) drain it down half way
5) scrub away with janitorial tools, rinsing with a hose while draining till drain water is clear
6) fill with tap water and 1 to 10 bleach solution, run for 1 hr
7) drain and refill with tap water to just above uniseals and run 1 hr
8) drain remaining solution down as far down as possible
9) remove remaining water with shop vac
10) wipe dry with a towel
11) let bake under HID's for a day or so to aid in sterilizing
12) back pack spray the floor and system with mild physan solution
After this ritual I feel ready to rock. I would definitely avoid disassembling your UC to clean it for sure, as it's an unnecessary royal pain in the ass IMO.
Besides, the wear and tear those buckets go thru to break that uniseal grip no doubt lends to buckets cracking. That's how I roll.
Besides, the wear and tear those buckets go thru to break that uniseal grip no doubt lends to buckets cracking. That's how I roll.
yeah - I wondered about that
how do you get a brush through the U shaped manifold?
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