Amonia: Got any ideas for it.

[frugalnana]

Ok Ladies, not sure if this is the place to post. But like I said before I've been going through closets and now the storage shed. My dh owed a business before and he had some boxes in the shed. I opened a few and found two boxes with 24 bottles in each box of Amonia. I know you can put some drops in dishwashing to help kill germs but what on earth can I do with all of it.
Any ideas would be great or a website to give me some hints.
I just don't want to throw it away.
Thanks.

[babetteq]

I would dispose of it quite frankly. Ammonia is poison. Anything that it does, something else does much more safely. The only thing I can think of that it does that I can't substitute is for insect stings. It takes the sting out if you use it right away on the owie part. 24 bottles would go a long way in that case.
Maybe put it up on craig's list and see if someone else needs it, keep a bottle for yourself.

[canadian gardener]

OK it's not a disinfectant. You may be thinking of bleach.

Ammonia is a great grease cutter and floor wax stripper. It's fumy stuff though, and you don't want to breathe the vapours, very hard on the lungs.

The fumes in household ammonia are so strong that they are used to clean ovens. Just the fumes from a saucer full of household ammonia overnite will soften grease and make it easy to clean. Think about what it can do to your skin and lungs.

Ammonia in commercial strength might NOT be safe to handle. Call your local toxic waste people for suggestions.

If it is household strength, use with caution.

1 cup in a load of laundry will remove a lot of machine grease and tarry stains or oily residue. Put a cup of vinegar in the rinse water to make sure it all rinses out.

a couple of TBSP in a sink or pail of water will clean floors or walls and baseboards but use gloves.

1/4 cup per gallon of hot water will strip wax or polish off floors. Use gloves and AVOID FUMES.

I have used between 2 Tbsp to 1/4 cup in the hot water tank of a steam cleaner to do carpets, but go over them twice, the second time with vinegar.

Vinegar breaks ammonia down chemically so it's useful for rinsing it out fully. Any ammonia residue with interact with floor polish or paint, causing it to flake off, so rinsing is super important if you plan to use it before doing either.

DO NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT EVER EVER mix with bleach or any cleaner containing bleach..

TO BE SAFE DON'T EVER MIX WITH ANY OTHER CLEANER PERIOD.

If you mix ammonia with bleach lethal chlorine gas fumes will form, and people die from this every year across North America.

[Laurie in Bradenton]

I would post a few of the bottles on freecycle and ask around my friends and family and see who I could share with. I personally used ammonia to clean with. Both straight and cut down with water. But then I have very tough skin and chemicals don't effect me. I work with them all the time and have for the last 30 odd years. Also you may check with you church to see if a bottle or 2 might help them out. Bet if you ask around you can share alot of it.

Laurie in BRadenton

[savin4disney]

I have used it to clean the grill grates and do use on my kitchen floor. Only way to get the build up off. But I send DS out and open all the windows and dispose of the water ASAP!

[ewokgirl]

I use it to mop my floors. I also sometimes use a 1/4 cup in the washer when I wash sheets. It gets any body oil out of the sheets.

[frugalnana]

I guess because I don't use amonia that much I didn't realize the risk. I think I will ask the Janitor at church if she can use it. I will keep one for myself.

Margery, can I mix the vinegar and amonia together to make a cleaner for the bathroom and if I can how much do I mix of each along with water. They are household size. Dh bought them years ago at Kmart and just got the two cases.
I was kind of wondering if I could spray weeds with it.

Thank you ladies with your help.

[rhairston]

I use it to mop my floors, and clean the stove drip pans. I just put a little bit in the kitchen sink and then add enough hot water to cover the pans and let them soak. They really clean off well.

The smell is pretty strong, so I normally get the lemon scented kind, which is a little better.

Just remember that a little goes a long way with Ammonia!

Rejena

[Kimberlina]

I use it for getting grunge out of really dirty clothes.

I also use it for stripping/cleaning my kitchen floors. Which reminds me, I need to get mroe and do that again.

[peanut]

I'm asthmatic and had to quit using ammonia and ammonia based products. Dh cleans the oven now. Which is where we used it. It is nice for cleaning floors though...diluted of course. I used one or two tbsp. per gallon of water. We'd rinse with vinegar in water.

I wouldn't mix vinegar and ammonia together though. What would be the point? The vinegar would kill the ammonia and then there's really no point in adding the ammonia at all.

Jean