Is Neutralise a snake oil?

[Guest]

Just checked my water after these strips arriving through the door and I was very very surprised. No chlorine pretty much.

High Alkalinity, Cyanuric Acid and Hardness.

I think the Cyanuric acid is like a bleach. So I'm going to see if my Eco thrive Neutralise works to kill this out the water.

I will update with a test after I've added the neutralise and also after adding a little apple cider vinegar, which I like to use to pH the water.

[Guest]

here you can see here, the bottom strip was after 10-15 seconds

This indicates the neutralise is working OK

[Guest]

.....and after apple cider vinegar. You can see the PH is around what it should be, but I can see this has further neutralised any chloride in the water.

Very happy with that.

It's interesting and compelling that I haven't been wasting my time, energy and money using this product.

It may also be worth adding, as far to my own knowledge, chloride and chlorimine can't evaporate as easily as chlorine can?

I will be using Neutralise religiously from now on.

[Guest]

[Guest]

***UPDATE***

I am afraid to say after testing using Apple Cider Vinegar only, that Neutralise looks to be snake oil I think! It doesn't work as effectively as the cider vinegar does either.

Also for anyone wandering:

Cyanuric acid is available as a granular solid and as a liquid (sodium cyanurate). Most commonly, however, cyanuric acid is found in stabilized chlorines dichlor and trichlor. These stabilized chlorines have about 50-58% CYA in their formulas.

Found on website below to verify my thoughts

https://blog.orendatech.com/five-things ... 20formulas.

Basically the chloride the water people use is either a dichlor or trichlor.

So for anyone looking to succesfully dechlorinate your water, bubbling it in the open may not be that effective, also just do yourself a favour and buy some Apple Cider Vinegar

[Guest]

Doh, I was reading the first post thinking, huh, this may have potential. By the time I get to the picture, I think, little bottle, I likely could buy one to try it out. But then your next post is saying it may be a bit bunk. Doh! Interesting, so please keep us updated

I would guess that the apple cider vinegar is going to effect the Ph, so I would be interested to know how that recovers in response to time after being added to remove the chlorine.

I will report the post the be changed in the title. I really thought it was doijng some good, maybe it is, but from what the test strip says, there is zero chlorine but lots of either trichlor ir dichlor. When I add the Neutralise it does hardly anything compared, this is only in a small 250ml glass too!

I won't be buying the neutralise again as I use the vinegar as a natural way to PH anyway, plus Apple Cider Vinegar has other goodies in to help in the soil etc......

@Chad.Westport

[Guest]

This was this morning with the vinegar only.

[Norseman]

Very interesting @DIY.Rik. I will be subbing to this thread to see what you are coming up with further down the line.
Thanks bro

[Guest]

Very interesting @DIY.Rik. I will be subbing to this thread to see what you are coming up with further down the line.
Thanks bro

Well Chad pointed something out which was very helpful actually if you furtrher read above. So I changed the title (got someone for me who kindly has, thanks) as it looks like the Neutralise doesnt really work.

I may start a new thread in that case about water quality. Apparently to analyse the water supply you have can be very important. It looks that our water isn't actually that hard right now. It could improve but looks good.

I will (if I remember) to test the water later in the very watering can I use. A small 1.5L one I have. This will make things more scientifically accurate. Like a side by side comparison, in the very way I have been watering the last month or so (I have slightly adapted things to previous)

Thanks for your input

[Guest]

Oh and @Bulls for the Title change