Can you use bleach and glass cleaner in the same room?
Using bleach and ammonia-based glass cleaners in the same space can accidentally mix the chemicals and create toxic chlorine gas. Even throwing different products away together can trigger a reaction. This exposure causes immediate physical symptoms like a burning nose and a heavy chest.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
Found another way around this?
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- 1Asking on forums before starting to cleanDid this help you?
- 2Ensuring maximum ventilation just in caseDid this help you?
- 3Making sure they never touch each other as liquidsDid this help you?
- 4Using only one purpose-made cleaner for the entire bathroomDid this help you?
- 5Stopping the use of many different disposable products at the same timeDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“Im pretty new to cleaning and wasnt sure if bleach and glass cleaner with ammonia could be in the same room”source ↗
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