Super Fresh™ Removes ODORS Caused by Top Load Washing Machines

 Left Picture: View from outside washing machine.

Right Picture: View of inside gasket showing mold and mildew.

If you own a high efficiency front load washing machine then you have probably been very pleased with the fact that these washing machines clean your clothing better with less water, come out of the washing machine dryer due to a high speed final spin cycle, which allows for less drying time, as well as many other energy saving features.

One thing you may not be happy about is the fact that these washing machines can and will cause your laundry area as well as your clothes to have a mold or mildew type smell.

This odor is caused by the gasket that is located immediately inside the front door. As you will see in the pictures, the inner lining of the gasket is manufactured in such a way that water can collect at the bottom of the gasket causing the water to sit between loads. Couple that with the fact that the area inside the gasket get’s no light, is damp, and cool, and you have a perfect breeding ground for mold spores to form and grow.

Manufactures of these washers suggest that you always leave the door slightly ajar to allow air in. The manufactures also sell small tablets that you are to use every two to three weeks to help clean the inside of the gasket. While doing these two things may help, they do not totally remove the mold or the odor.

Here is how to get rid of the odor: The inside of the gasket must be thoroughly cleaned using our EATOILS™ Super Fresh™ Certified Green Cleaning Solution. Mix at 4 ounces to a gallon of water and clean the inside of the gasket using a small soft bristled brush and a rag. First spray liberally inside the gasket with the diluted Super Fresh™ solution, then lightly scrub with the soft bristled brush, let sit about 10-15 minutes and then wipe with a damp rag. You will be amazed at the amount of Mold and Mildew that you will remove. After thoroughly cleaning, spray some more of the Super Fresh™ inside the whole circumference of the gasket and let air dry. At this point the Mold and Mildew will be killed and removed from the gasket along with the odor.

If you are unable to perform this cleaning task, please feel free to call us at Clean and Green Solutions, 281.883.8470, and we will be glad to send out a service tech to perform this for you at a nominal service charge.

Once you are done cleaning the gasket, you can spray any clothing or towels that may have absorbed the odor. Using your spray bottle, mist the clothing or towel items just until lightly damp and this will remove any residual odor. Remember the Super Carpet Fresh is Certified Green and will not harm you or your clothing. After treating the clothing or towels you may choose to launder again but this is not necessary.

To keep the Mold, Mildew, and Odor from returning spray some of the EATOILS™ Super Fresh™ diluted at 2 ounces per gallon of water inside the gasket every 1-2 weeks and continue to keep the door slightly open when the machine is not in use, per manufacture instructions.

Here is what one client wrote to us just yesterday, "Thanks Doug Rucker and "Clean and Green Solutions" for making my washer not so stinky! Your odor removal product ROCKS!!!! (and it's green...yea for me!)"
Mrs. C. Wheeler, Splendora, Tx.

EATOILS™ Super Fresh™ is an excellent cleaning product for kitchen, bathroom, tile and grout, carpeting, upholstery, clothing and fabric cleaning challenges. Super Fresh™ will also remove any odor on contact including SKUNK odor.

For more information on the EATOILS™ Super Fresh™ Certified Green Cleaning product, it’s many uses, as well as all our other Certified Green Cleaning products, please feel free to call us at 281.883.8470 and visit us at www.cleanandgreensolutions.com.

EATOILS Bio-Blast loosens cob webs for easy removal

EATOILS BIO BLAST makes for

easy work when removing Cob Web
infestations.

Clean and Green Solutions, the Houston,TX distributor for EATOILS Certified GREEN Cleaning products was recent called out to this home in Kingwood, TX. The owner of the property had just listed the home for sale and needed an environmentally safe way to remove the cob web infestation as you see in the pictures. Most exterior cleaning service companies will use bleach diluted with water to remove cob webs. The problem with using bleach to remove cob webs is that you have to use way more bleach than water. Usually about 75% bleach to water. Then, when you apply the bleach and water mixture to the exterior of the home the mixture will fall onto all the vegetation below the house. Even if you were to cover the landscape, you will still get bleach in the vegetation as it runs off the tarps or covering as well as when you remove the covering. This is a very unsafe way to remove cob webs, not only for the user but for the environment as well.

Here is how Clean and Green Solutions removed the cob webs in an environmentally safe way: We filled a five gallon bucket with water till it was 75% full, and then added 1/2 gallon of EATOILS BIO-BLAST. Using a power washer, (3500 psi, 6gpm) equipped with a DOWNSTREAM chemical injector placed at the first 50 feet of hose, we thoroughly applied the BIO-BLAST to the exterior of the home. Then using a zero degree tip and keeping the wand approximately 10 feet from the house, working top to bottom, the cob webs easily fell off the house. We have used EATOILS BIO-BLAST many times for cob web removal and have always found it to be the most economical and safest way to remove cob webs whether the infestation is heavy or light.

On one story homes the use of a pressure washer is not required. Simply mix the EATOILS BIO-BLAST in a garden type pump up sprayer at 6 ounces to a gallon of water. Spray on the cob webs, then remove with a garden hose or broom.

You will find many more uses for EATOILS BIO-BLAST around your home than just for cob web removal. BIO-BLAST will remove the strongest of odors, returns tile and grout to it's original color and beauty, and is an excellent environmentally safe drain and septic maintenance treatment.

For more information on the EATOILS BIO-BLAST product, as well as our many other Certified GREEN cleaning products, call us at 281.883.8470 or visit us at http://www.cleanandgreensolutuions.com/

EATOILS BT200 Cleans up Austin Stone Siding Home

Eatoils BT200 cleans this Austin Stone side house located in Houston, TX.

Clean and Green Solutions, the Houston, TX based distributor for EATOILS cleaning products was called to this home to provide an estimate to clean the Austin Stone siding on the exterior of the house. Betsie Weathorford called Clean and Green Solutions after seeing our website at www.cleanandgreensolutions.com. Ms. Weatherford was impressed with the web site and the fact that we only use the EATOILS brand of CERTIFIED GREEN Cleaning Products. Several areas of the home were badly stained with Mold and Mildew as you see in the picture above. Ms. Weatherford did NOT want a company using dangerous, toxic chemicals or bleach to remove the stains. Here is how we did it: We mixed the EATOILS BT200 at 4 ounces to a gallon of water. Using a pump up garden type sprayer we applied the BT200 solution to the stains and brushed in using a street broom. We then waited approximatley 20-30 minutes and rinsed the stains off using a power washer at very lower pressure.

Ms. Weatherford was extremely happy with the outcome and the peace of mind that her home was not cleaned with the use of dangerous chemicals.

For more information please contact us at 281.883.8470 or visit us at www.cleanandgreensolutions.com.

Clean and Green Solutions EATOILS Products Move Up In Priority For Gulf Oil Spill Response

This week we heard back from Horizon - the company that owns the rig that was sitting on top of the well that is now leaking into the Gulf Of Mexico - they have advised us that we have moved up on the list of priority of products being assessed for response to the gulf oil spill.

Well, it's only been 5 weeks since we filled out the internet form that provided them with the information about our technology and no one has picked up a phone to call. We have 4 people on the ground in the gulf states but no one is getting close to speaking with anyone about how our products can save some serious money.

We have shown the products to emergency response contractors and to some political folks, and the Coast Guard has run a small test, but we can't seem to get anywhere near the BP Oil people to discuss this huge problem.

We have an absorbent - MULTIZORB™ SELECT™ OIL ONLY that will pick up the oil off the surface of the water before it gets to the shoreline. It also works in the marshes and on the shore to mitigate the effects of the spill. It can be easily distributed onto the water or sand or into the marshes and it can be easily retrieved for disposal. This product has been successfully used in virtually every major oil spill since the Exxon Valdez and it was used last month in Australia to mitigate their oil spill. It is made from a renewable resource - so supply is virtually unlimited, and it is environmentally safe and friendly to all forms of wildlife. It is used to neutralize nuclear waste and it is landfill friendly. Most importantly, it is less expensive than alternative methods for capturing and disposing of oil products.

After you have used the absorbent, we have a complete range of oil eating microbes in our EATOILS™ line of products that can safely digest the residual oil and treat the water to remove any residue naturally. This is an ideal approach to treating the marshes and coastal areas and for any pockets of contamination that may develop. We also have products that combine the oil eating microbes with safe surfactants to clean up the areas, birds and other wildlife in a timely manner. These products are also used successfully to remediate oil spills on land and they have been used successfully in bioremediation projects for many years.

We are not alone in this. Every time a spill occurs the oil companies use the same old technologies to deal with the spills -
1) wait for calm seas, usually up to 3 weeks,
2) apply a dispersant as quickly as possible to minimize the PR impact of the spill, usually 2-3 weeks,
3) play the blame game so they don't have to pay for the clean-up, starts at week one and continues until bancruptcy is declared (see point #9),
4) close off all communications with any outsiders so that no new technologies can be tried, keep head in sand for at least 4 weeks,
5) wait for political pressure before trying alternative methods, usually kicks in at 4 weeks,
6) keep the people with new technologies at bay by setting up a complicated assessment process that will tie them up in red tape until it is too late to address the current problem, this is a new wrinkle with this spill - it started on day 3 - and we are now at day 45 and we just heard that our technology is moving up one level (to level 3 of 5),
7) keep applying dispersants until the Coast Guard or the Government tells them to stop (by then the dispersants will have killed or poisoned much of the natural aquatic life in the area), it took 35 days this time, yet they are still applying dispersants today as far as I know,
8) pay people to stand around and look at the disaster and don't provide them with the tools and products they need to address the problem, still happening today as they wait for the oil to come ashore,
9) file for bancruptcy before the real charges for cleaning up the mess are assessed,
10) let the government step in and make an even bigger mess of this problem.

The time has come for the oil industry to come together and jointly assess all of the new spill response technologies so that the right products can be used quickly to control environmental damage and to reduce the costs of these horrific disasters caused by oil. We have the technologies to deal with this now and we can be good stewards of our planet if we will only act responsibly.

For more information about our products please visit our website at http://www.cleanandgreensolutions.com or call us toll free at 281.883.8470.