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Ray <3
Lv 7
Ray <3 asked in Home & GardenCleaning & Laundry · 1 decade ago

I need to sanitize my bathroom, top to bottom - how do I do it?

I had a few friends over for drinks to celebrate the end of exams, and one idiot locked himself in my bathroom and threw up on EVERYTHING. I got most of the visible stuff with lysol wipes and stuff, but I now it's nowhere near clean yet. It's disgusting. I'm out of cleaning products now, and need to buy more... what should I get, and how do i do it? If possible, i'd like something I can just spray EVERYWHERE and wipe down, without putting my bathroom out of commission for too long, since I only have 1 - any ideas? I want it to be CLEAN! (I'm not sure bleach is a great idea though because of the fumes... something else?)

Update:

(if you can't tell, I'm ameteur at cleaning, and have a weak stomach)..

Also, he threw up BEHIND the toilet tank, and since I can't take the tank off the wall, any easy way to get it out of there? It's stinking up my bathroom :(

Update 2:

I actually don't have a bathroom window - I live in an apartment and the bathroom is on the inside wall. I'd also like to keep it as cheap as possible, since I'm a student.

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  • GG-pa
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago
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    Please do not use chlorine bleach. Bleach is corrosive and dangerous.

    Buy a gallon of Pine-Sol, Lysol or any quality dilutable disinfectant cleaner. Mix it up according to label directions in a trigger spray bottle. Apply the spray starting at the base of the wall and working your way up. If you start spraying high and working down the walls will be streaky when you're done.

    Let the whole area stay wet for 10 minutes of soak time. Start wiping things down with old towels or rags.

    To get behind the toilet tank, get and old bath towel wet then wrung out. Spray it down with the disinfectant. Lay it on the floor behind the toilet. Grab the two corners on one side of the towel and slip it up between the tank and the wall. Repeat this process a couple of times.

    Now after every thing is clean, Spray the room down a second time with the disinfectant. To be disinfected, it will need to say wet for another 10 minutes.

  • larry
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    1). Many of the larger hardware outfitters like Home d'Pot have add-on bathroom window fan units for fume removal, which are cleanly removable if desired someday. Given freedom from fumes thusly, a whole more aggressive genre of chemicals become practical for lavish use.

    2). Straight chlorine bleach will slowly eat the sponge you apply and scrub with, so wear polyethylene or nitrile (not rubber) gloves. It kicks *** even on paint if you get carried away, so just get the surface wet and cruise onward.

  • 1 decade ago

    you should just use some Lysol lemon spray but you might not like it because it has a very strong lemon scent but after you clean with it just spray your bathroom with febreeze and don't go into your bathroom for a while afterwords because the lemon fumes are actually chemicals. hope i helped! :]

    Source(s): Lysol and febreeze owner
  • 1 decade ago

    I'd be looking at a steamer....

    GGpa has the method and the products in his advice.... go with him....

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