Cleaning interiors during covid 19 pandemic

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What are you using to wipe down interiors? I’ve heard using 70% or stronger ISP will work but what surfaces could it damage?

Ammonia and bleach a no-no. Lysol wipes? Hydrogen peroxide?

I’ve read in some reports Micro ban (or at least a couple of their products) are good to go and made the EPA’s list. Adam’s interior QD has Microban is that good?

Just like to know what all your using?


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There is a new P&S product with a wet swell time of 10 minutes that is 25 per gallon. Making it the most economical option. Detailed image has it on their website
 
I think dwell time is the biggest issue. I`ve got some Lysol disinfecting wipes and they call for remaining wet for 4 minutes to kill. Wiping down a phone or my pocket knife inside the house and it seemed like it was already dry in about a minute. So trying to do that in a warm let alone a hot car seems like a waste of multiple wipes. Maybe a soapy solution is the trick, probably make a mess but would probably be safer.

Here is some interesting info:

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Guys, I just had a thought. Sure the spray on and dwell products are great, but non-carpeted surfaces, why not just use hand soap? If hand soap is safe enough for our hands and advised by medicine, why not try it? Use terry cloth towels, for clean up, that can be laundered with bleach on leathers and plastics, and save the spray on sanitizers for plastics...? Just a thought because we need to start using products strategically, I haven`t seen Lysol wipes or spray stocked in stores for about three weeks......
 
I picked up a gallon of concentrated sanitizer from a local restaurant that is closed during the stay at home order. Pretty good stuff, 1oz per quart of water. It will last a long time.


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I wonder what`s *really* required to kill this Virus...I heard one Med. guy say it`s relatively fragile and easy to kill, but I`d hate to be wrong about that!

It does seem that some mechanical aspect of the cleaning is a good idea..those "touchless" approaches with Bleach/Hydrogen Peroxide sure require a long dwell time whereas you can safely wash it off your hands in that now-famous 20 seconds.

IF "any ol` hand soap" is fine, I`d expect most any Interior Cleaner to be OK too, but [REPEAT "hate to be wrong.."].

I do hope that everybody is learning to keep things like Sanitizing Wipes/etc. on-hand all the time. Once somebody`s sick you`re already behind the curve, even with just the Common Cold.
 
Coatings=crack said:
What are you using to wipe down interiors? I’ve heard using 70% or stronger ISP will work but what surfaces could it damage?
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If by "ISP" you mean Rubbing/Isopropyl Alcohol, you definitely want to keep that off leather..guess how a certain Autopian learned that the hard way when he was a kid :o
 
I wonder how many cases we’re going to see of owners damaging their interiors from using the wrong products to disinfect.
 
Bill D said:
I wonder how many cases we’re going to see of owners damaging their interiors from using the wrong products to disinfect.
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Point well taken. Iso-Propyl Alcohol (IPA) is probably THE most common "disinfectant" being used to "sanitize" vehicle surfaces, BUT I wonder how safe it is for plastics, vinyl , and coated leathers IF used repeatedly. I am using a hospital-grade spray from Claire (a sub-division of Spray-Way) called Disinfectant Spray Q for sanitizing exterior door handles on my vehicles, but that is it.

I do have Spray Nine Multi-Purpose Cleaner & Disinfectant from Permatex/Illinois Tool Works, Inc., but I do not think it has made the CDC`s list of "approved" cleaners/disinfectants for CoVID-19. It was (past tense emphasized) a forum favorite for cleaning mildew-moldy vehicle interiors. I would be more inclined to use this full strength Ready-To-Use (RTU) on "sanitizing" interiors than Clorox or Lysol wipes or alcohol on a vehicles`s interior, even if it is not"approved". It has more notoriety and following in the boating industry. Mine comes from Midwest farm supply store Mills Fleet-Farm, but I did think I saw it at Meijer`s.

Yes, I know the Microban stuff is being advertised on TV for it effectiveness on CoVID-19, but I wonder how "difficult" it is to procure any products with this disinfectant in it due to the high demand for homeowner/residential use, like the Adam`s product.

I also see that Adam`s are making a alcohol-based hand sanitizer. But then, so are a few of our Wisconsin-based vodka/gin distillers. The nice thing about them? They are expensive even without paying the drinking alcohol state excise taxes, BUT they are supposedly "safe" to ingest, although there is a warning it is not intended to used as such.

I am also waiting for some "uninformed" homeowner mixing ammonia and bleach together for use as a disinfecting cleaner. That is one of the most common household product mixing mistakes made in the United States that sends many to the hospital Emergency Room with lung injuries from the toxic gases produced from the chemical reaction between these two household cleaning products. I do think that there is a bold-print warning NOT to do this on each product`s label, but who reads the labels? (Or as ever-present Autopian Accumulator says, RTFL, meaning "read the freaking (cannot use the bad word, forum software will no allow it!) label."
 
Bill D said:
I wonder how many cases we’re going to see of owners damaging their interiors from using the wrong products to disinfect.
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I`d imagine quite a few. On delicate interior surfaces, I have had interior specific cleaners stain some sensitive materials. I don`t want to imagine what will happen when people take bleach at disinfecting strength and leave it to dry on their door panels or steering wheel.
 
Lonnie said:
I do have Spray Nine Multi-Purpose Cleaner & Disinfectant from Permatex/Illinois Tool Works, Inc., but I do not think it has made the CDC`s list of "approved" cleaners/disinfectants for CoVID-19. It was (past tense emphasized) a forum favorite for cleaning mildew-moldy vehicle interiors. I would be more inclined to use this full strength Ready-To-Use (RTU) on "sanitizing" interiors than Clorox or Lysol wipes or alcohol on a vehicles`s interior, even if it is not"approved". It has more notoriety and following in the boating industry. Mine comes from Midwest farm supply store Mills Fleet-Farm, but I did think I saw it at Meijer`s.
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Spray Nine is not a product that I would left sit to disinfect a surface, unless I wanted streak marks all over the surface.
 
I dont know if ammonia will disinfect but ammonia and water can be used on fabric seats and carpets , but not leather. The bonis about ammonia is that when the smell goes away it pulls all the other oders out of the fabric , and it doesent leave any chemicals to attrach more dirt.
 
Billy Baldone said:
There is a new P&S product with a wet swell time of 10 minutes that is 25 per gallon. Making it the most economical option. Detailed image has it on their website
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It has ammonia which i read can not be used i. Some interior (leather, vinyl) that takes out highly touched areas like steering wheel and shift knobs.

Not sure those anyone use ammonia inside?


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Accumulator said:
I wonder what`s *really* required to kill this Virus...I heard one Med. guy say it`s relatively fragile and easy to kill, but I`d hate to be wrong about that!

It does seem that some mechanical aspect of the cleaning is a good idea..those "touchless" approaches with Bleach/Hydrogen Peroxide sure require a long dwell time whereas you can safely wash it off your hands in that now-famous 20 seconds.

IF "any ol` hand soap" is fine, I`d expect most any Interior Cleaner to be OK too, but [REPEAT "hate to be wrong.."].

I do hope that everybody is learning to keep things like Sanitizing Wipes/etc. on-hand all the time. Once somebody`s sick you`re already behind the curve, even with just the Common Cold.
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Keeping sanitizing wipes is easy said. Finding is the issue


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Bill D said:
I wonder how many cases we’re going to see of owners damaging their interiors from using the wrong products to disinfect.
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And this the idea of this thread. Find effective methods for sanitizing the interior with out destroying.


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Besides spraying chemicals and using an o zone generator... Would a few passes with some sort of UV wand suffice? I know that prolonged UV exposure is bad for the human body and interior plastics, etc. but you`re not holding the light over any area for very long. Just thinking outside the box...
 
Im not an expert in this issue. But this is what i read. Virus outer protein is quite fragile, soap and water break it down easily. So to me it sounds like a degreaser would also work. Alternative would be antibacterial dish washing detergent (we have few of these available in Australian supermarkets). Any of these if they do not kill 100% of virus they will kill a %, thus degrading its concentration.

Virus will also die naturally on surfaces. So last resort, don`t drive the car for 10 days.. Or get windows and doors open and let sun uv ligh do the damage (this will not work on front window).

Also to remember, this is not a long term application. So if u need to use something stronger on plastic for few dozen applications it will not degrade the surface.

Cheers

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