PBW cleaner unavailable

[Ian Crownshaw]

Hi,
I have been trying to buy some PBW and no one seems to have any stock. Is it no longer available in the UK?
Does anyone know where I can get some failing ordering it from the States with the subsequent delivery charges?
Cheers
Ian

 

[Chippy_Tea]

This was posted a while ago i assume its still relevant -



A lot of us use Lidls W5 "Oxy Power multi Purpose Stain Remover"

Its cheap as chips, its basically Sodium Per-Carbonate, so its a strong alkali cleaner coupled with atomic oxygen as the sanitiser.
Will clean and bleach stained platic vessels.

Highly recommended.

Oh and btw. if the misses uses Vanish laundry whitener stuff at €7 a tub this is the same (but without the perfume) for a lot less!

 

[foxbat]

Chemipro have direct replacements available for starsan and PBW:

https://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/threads/starsan-saniclean-pbw-substitutes-launching.84015/

 

[johncrobinson]

PBW ! i just use VWP.

 

[Ian Crownshaw]

PBW ! i just use VWP.

That's what I have in so will be using for the time being.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Have a look at the new range from forum sponsor GetErBrewed -

Starsan, Saniclean & PBW substitutes
https://www.geterbrewed.com/blog/2019/10/24/starsan-saniclean-pbw-substitutes/

 

[johncrobinson]

Actually i wish i had known about the oxy vanish tip a few months ago i threw out about a dozen stained demijohns.

 

[HarryFlatters]

Lidls W5 "Oxy Power multi Purpose Stain Remover"

Apologies for the thread hijack, but is this safe to use on stainless steel?

 

[user 18729]

This was posted a while ago i assume its still relevant -



A lot of us use Lidls W5 "Oxy Power multi Purpose Stain Remover"

Its cheap as chips, its basically Sodium Per-Carbonate, so its a strong alkali cleaner coupled with atomic oxygen as the sanitiser.
Will clean and bleach stained platic vessels.

Highly recommended.

Oh and btw. if the misses uses Vanish laundry whitener stuff at €7 a tub this is the same (but without the perfume) for a lot less!

I’ve used similar before but due to my water being hard i was left with white powdery residue on everything even after rinsing.

Has anyone added other chemicals to a basic supermarket oxy to make it hard water tolerant?

 

[johncrobinson]

If its proper stainless steel i dont see why not.

 

[RichardM]

I've just bought some of Brupaks Bruclean http://mail.brupaks.com/bruclean.htm as my tub of PBW is nearly all gone.

 

[foxy]

Hi,
I have been trying to buy some PBW and no one seems to have any stock. Is it no longer available in the UK?
Does anyone know where I can get some failing ordering it from the States with the subsequent delivery charges?
Cheers
Ian

Just get some sodium percarbonate or perborate steer well clear of the supermarket brands, they are generally about 32 to 34 % sodium percarbonate and the rest no use to you at all. Works out cheaper in the end.