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About 10 years ago I became aware of a new kind of cleaning chemistry to replace old
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school bleaches. It was oxygen based and a bunch of different companies came out with their version of it
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and I was pretty impressed. It worked very well and it wasn't toxic in any way
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So those first wave of oxygen based cleaners were based on a powder, something like this here
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I've used this before, it's called mold stain eraser and you can see the powder here kind
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of looks like laundry detergent and you dissolve it in water. It takes a little while, 10 or 15 or 20 minutes to dissolve and then you just put it on the
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stained surface. So this has worked very well in the past but there's a new family, a new generation of
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oxygen based cleaners that are easier to use and actually a little bit more effective and
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that's what I want to show you now. The next generation of oxygen based cleaners that I've found have two liquid parts that
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work together. This is called dual blast, it's the latest that I've found and the most effective too
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and it comes with a jug, it comes in a jug that is divided right down the middle so there's
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no dissolving powder. You just tip it up this way so that both sides of the jug are on each side of the opening
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and you just pour some in. Equal parts come out and it's pretty well self-mixing
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You might want to slosh it around a little bit but that product is now ready to go and
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I want to show you how it works on some of this weathered wood
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There's gray weathering here, there's some mildew, there might be some mold and I'm always
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surprised at how well these kind of oxygen based cleaners work. They brighten the wood but they also don't remove the natural wood green patterns so
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in a sense not only are they safer than bleach but these oxygen based products actually do
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a better job. Now the nice thing about these products is that they revert to water and oxygen after
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a period of time so you have a couple of hours to use it and I mean there's no, you can see
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it foaming up there, that's releasing some of the oxygen compounds and it takes a little
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while for this to work but you can see that it is working and it is completely safe
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You can brush it on, there's no burning, there's no issues at all
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You just have to get this stuff on within that two hour period of time because after
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that it's kind of like Cinderella, her carriage is going to turn to a pumpkin and this stuff
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is going to turn to oxygen and water which is what you want
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There's nothing harmful about that but you do have that window of time where you have
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to get the job done so I'm just going to let that sit for a while and then we'll come back
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a little bit later, hose it off and you'll be able to see the difference that it makes
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So here you can see the results. Earlier in the video it was morning when I brushed this stuff on and I've left it all
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morning long. It's now after lunch. I've been going about my business and come back and this is the result
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There's no scrubbing here, this is just the natural reaction of the Dual Blast to this
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grey weathered wood. There's still a little bit of discoloration here but it's mostly gone and you'll see that
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the knots still retain their colour and you can still see the wood grain here which is
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not something that you see with bleach. It just makes everything a whole lot lighter in a bland sort of way
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There you have it. Oxygen based cleaners at their best. Thanks for watching
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