lythambelle
Registered: 07/09/09
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My H27 has been standing ashore for 3-4 yrs after I had an accident, I'm now looking to "put her in next yr", among the jobs is servicing/changing the engine however first I need to clean yrs of gunk out of the bilge which has a mix of oil/diesel & water in it.
Can anyone recomend a Degreaser that is safe to use on Fibreglass? Something along the lines of Jizer/Swarfega heavy duty?
I want to degrease, cleanse with pressure washer and pump out through bilge pump into an old chemical drum. |
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Cuan
Registered: 27/12/07
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DavidB
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Registered: 09/12/06
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It may sound daft, but neat diesel does a wonderful job. We had a leak in the tank this year and the bilge filled with 20 litres of diesel. After pumping it out into containers and flushing through with water and washing up liquid it looks great - I've never seen it so clean. The smell went away soon enough too.
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lythambelle
Registered: 07/09/09
Posts: 8
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"Cuan" I really wanted to avoid extortionately priced propriety bilge cleaners.
Cheers Dave, it's the deisel spillage i was trying to get rid of. My boat has stood for some yrs following accident and had some deisel leakage into bilge. It had also collected quite alot of rainwater so the floor of the cabin was coated in a slimy layer of oily bilge water.
I cleaned it out at the weekend with swarfega deagreaser (citrus & anionic detergent) and a pressure washer drained by bilge pump. It's really come up quite well. |
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