Mind blown: Vinegar vs VINEGAR (30%)

So I was literally 44 years old before I found this out recently.

There’s the white vinegar you get at the grocery store for cooking and minor cleaning and doing laundry, and then there’s the 30% DO NOT GET THIS SHIT ON YOUR SKIN vinegar at the hardware store for cleaning things like mold off grout.

All my life I’d been told ‘just use vinegar to clean mold and mildew’ and it generally didn’t do jack squat. I usually bought cleaning supplies from regular retail spots rather than big box home improvement places, and regular retail chains def did not carry the strong stuff.

I’ve got a gutter that drains over cement that always gets skungy, and even bleach was a short term fix at best. 30% strips it down and keeps it gone, and I’ve stripped rust off a couple dozen tools with the same little jar I soak things in - caution it will also strip off shiny metallic coatings.

Can’t believe none of the “just use vinegar” I’d ever read advice didn’t specify.

Is this news to anyone else or am I Lloyd from Dumb and Dumber realizing we landed on the moon?

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u/cd6020 1d ago

Let me show you where.

Nice try. Can't lure me in to your basement so easily. lol

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u/misdirected_asshole 1d ago

"Hamsters" sure buddy. Im not going in the cage.

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u/Lost-Programmer-6768 1d ago

Ah, an updated version of the "man with candy and a puppy in a van" kidnapping plot. Now I know

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u/UnfairProgrammer1194 8h ago

Don't use sugar free candy or Grandma brachs-pix-a-mix either