Need Help With the 55 gal drums I just bought

[destination1983]

Ok, so just bought 2 55 gallon barrels off of Craig's list, I specified that I need the ones without chemicals ever having been in them. But some how some way I wound up with one that use to contained liquid sugar and one that use to contain shampoo, the guy said the liquid shampoo container was the same chemical as dish soap so it should be safe for drinking water.

does anyone know if these barrels are truly safe ?!!!

 

[scottw]

Destination1983;877095 wrote: Ok, so just bought 2 55 gallon barrels off of Craig's list, I specified that I need the ones without chemicals ever having been in them. But some how some way I wound up with one that use to contained liquid sugar and one that use to contain shampoo, the guy said the liquid shampoo container was the same chemical as dish soap so it should be safe for drinking water.

does anyone know if these barrels are truly safe ?!!!

What I have done in the past when I did the exact same thing.

1. Soaked with 1 part bleach and 2 parts water for a week. I put a pump in for water movement.
2. Emptied and sat in the sun for a few days.
3. 1 part vinegar 2 parts water for a week, same pump.
4. Sat in the sun, everything will evaporate in a couple days.
5 I added RO water to the top, ran a pump for a day, then sun dried

You will have no issues using that barrel. I have done this multiple times, we had 10 barrels filled with RO water as the system was a smidgen under 10k gallons. All of the barrels but 1 was soap, the 1 was syrup.

Just my .02 cents, I know I am new here, but not new to salt.

 

[jdavid]

1:2 bleach:water in a 55 gal container... That's 18.3 gallons of bleach.

Why does everyone buy large containers that used to have soap or random chemicals in them?? Surfactants will kill your fish. I wouldn't use a commercial soap container to store tank water ever!!

 

[kzoo]

JDavid;877201 wrote: 1:2 bleach:water in a 55 gal container... That's 18.3 gallons of bleach.

Why does everyone buy large containers that used to have soap or random chemicals in them?? Surfactants will kill your fish. I wouldn't use a commercial soap container to store tank water ever!!

I would agree, soap is very hard to get out.

 

[destination1983]

JDavid;877201 wrote: 1:2 bleach:water in a 55 gal container... That's 18.3 gallons of bleach.

Why does everyone buy large containers that used to have soap or random chemicals in them?? Surfactants will kill your fish. I wouldn't use a commercial soap container to store tank water ever!!

Thought was buying something else !

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[destination1983]

scottw;877198 wrote: What I have done in the past when I did the exact same thing.

1. Soaked with 1 part bleach and 2 parts water for a week. I put a pump in for water movement.
2. Emptied and sat in the sun for a few days.
3. 1 part vinegar 2 parts water for a week, same pump.
4. Sat in the sun, everything will evaporate in a couple days.
5 I added RO water to the top, ran a pump for a day, then sun dried

You will have no issues using that barrel. I have done this multiple times, we had 10 barrels filled with RO water as the system was a smidgen under 10k gallons. All of the barrels but 1 was soap, the 1 was syrup.

Just my .02 cents, I know I am new here, but not new to salt.

Thanks for the advice any advice is better than no advice.

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[scottw]

JDavid;877201 wrote: 1:2 bleach:water in a 55 gal container... That's 18.3 gallons of bleach.

Why does everyone buy large containers that used to have soap or random chemicals in them?? Surfactants will kill your fish. I wouldn't use a commercial soap container to store tank water ever!!

It was a pain, bleach is cheap. We had no issues at all, but if it was cheap enough buy a new one that held sugar if you can find one. I bought 2 from a nice guy on here for $40 each. Again, it work wonderfully for us, we had $6.00 in each 55g barrel so adding the cost of bleach and vinegar was minimal.

again just my .02