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Mystery green in the tub dean 05-21-2007
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Posted by dean on May 21, 2007, 1:03 am
Over the weeks after cleaning my bath tub, there appears slowly a
greenish scummy deposit - feels like soap scum but its green. My first
thought was the green 'Shield' soap I was using was the source of the
color. But I stopped using colored soap (ivory now, its pure white),
and still the green returns, regular as clockwork.

I changed my shampoo to and orange one, and still the green continues.

I washed the tiles thoroughly, and cleaned the curtain, and still its
coming back.

So I have narrowed it down to one of the following:

1. Leaching out of the copper piping. Nothing appears in the other
showers and sinks, however, its just this one.
2. Leaching out of the tiles - they are indeed pale green, but come
on!
3. As my wife just put it, something green is leaking out of me. I
feel pretty healthy though!

Any ideas?


Posted by Meat Plow on May 21, 2007, 1:11 am
On Sun, 20 May 2007 22:03:12 -0700, dean wrote:

> Over the weeks after cleaning my bath tub, there appears slowly a
> greenish scummy deposit - feels like soap scum but its green. My first
> thought was the green 'Shield' soap I was using was the source of the
> color. But I stopped using colored soap (ivory now, its pure white),
> and still the green returns, regular as clockwork.
>
> I changed my shampoo to and orange one, and still the green continues.
>
> I washed the tiles thoroughly, and cleaned the curtain, and still its
> coming back.
>
> So I have narrowed it down to one of the following:
>
> 1. Leaching out of the copper piping. Nothing appears in the other
> showers and sinks, however, its just this one.
> 2. Leaching out of the tiles - they are indeed pale green, but come
> on!
> 3. As my wife just put it, something green is leaking out of me. I
> feel pretty healthy though!
>
> Any ideas?

Excessive mineral content.
Metal parts in equipment eroding.
Copper, iron or manganese in water being oxidized by chlorine,
monopersulfate or ozone. Low hardness level

Ripped off from a www.google.com search.



Posted by The Reverend Natural Light on May 21, 2007, 1:14 pm

Do you have copper pipes and acidic water?


> Over the weeks after cleaning my bath tub, there appears slowly a
> greenish scummy deposit - feels like soap scum but its green. My first
> thought was the green 'Shield' soap I was using was the source of the
> color. But I stopped using colored soap (ivory now, its pure white),
> and still the green returns, regular as clockwork.
>
> I changed my shampoo to and orange one, and still the green continues.
>
> I washed the tiles thoroughly, and cleaned the curtain, and still its
> coming back.
>
> So I have narrowed it down to one of the following:
>
> 1. Leaching out of the copper piping. Nothing appears in the other
> showers and sinks, however, its just this one.
> 2. Leaching out of the tiles - they are indeed pale green, but come
> on!
> 3. As my wife just put it, something green is leaking out of me. I
> feel pretty healthy though!
>
> Any ideas?



Posted by clifto on May 23, 2007, 3:39 pm
dean wrote:
> Over the weeks after cleaning my bath tub, there appears slowly a
> greenish scummy deposit - feels like soap scum but its green.

Sure sounds like mold to me.

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