Cleaning out bilge area on a Lund ProV

[b_cdot]

How do you go about cleaning out the bottom of the boat? Can't imagine what has accumulated down there.

[irishfield]

2007 Baron.. mine is almost spotless, what have you been washing / dumping in there to wonder?

[b_cdot]

2007 Baron.. mine is almost spotless, what have you been washing / dumping in there to wonder?

 

I was looking down in the bilge area through my battery compartment and it just looked like a grimey accumulation. I bought the boat used and I could tell the previous owner didn't take the best care of it. I just want to give it a good cleaning so my bilge can run in top form instead of sucking out junk.

[b_cdot]

I haven't been dumping my fish frying oil in there or anything.... I can imagine dirt, fishing line, crumbs, small leaves. This might be a good follow up to the post about hosing out the inside of the boat.

Edited May 17, 2017 by b_cdot

[irishfield]

You can buy "bilge cleaner" at CTC... would suspect nothing more than dumping it in .. adding water and letting it soak (scrub what you can reach) and then pump out (or pull drain plug) into a bucket.. not the lake!

Edited May 17, 2017 by irishfield

[mistaredone]

I bought a bilge pump cleaner a few days ago. I'm going to use it today. I'll let you know how it goes

[mistaredone]

I used Triton industrial bilge cleaner from CT. My bilge pump seems to be working well but it still looks like crap down threre. It's a tight space to get to in my boat and with the cleaner setting I couldn't spend any time scrubbing with the fumes.

[Old Ironmaker]

I just read a tip last week. Use a wet piece of swimming noodle and soak up all the left over oil and skunge in all the hard to get to places after rinsing with bilge cleaner which is nothing more than Spray 9 cleaner. I did the same thing to dry my livewells the other day.

Edited May 17, 2017 by Old Ironmaker

[wkrp]

bleach and a good rinse after

[b_cdot]

Thanks for thoughts, I had a friend of mine just tell me to use a bunch of dawn dish. Apparently it works well at loosening up any sticky stuff (oil/grease). When I looked into the bilge area it was definitely full of sticky looking dirt. Unfortunately its hard to reach all the spots with my battery out. Scrubbed what I could looks a bit better but the suds didnt touch anything i couldnt reach. Better than nothing i guess, Ran some suds through the bilge too and some of the water was pretty dirty.

[esoxansteel]

Hope theres NO split shot in there, when you turn on the pump

[landry]

I put a bar of soap in mine. A friend told me the trick.

Easy. Can't hurt any.

[OhioFisherman]

Thanks for thoughts, I had a friend of mine just tell me to use a bunch of dawn dish. Apparently it works well at loosening up any sticky stuff (oil/grease). When I looked into the bilge area it was definitely full of sticky looking dirt. Unfortunately its hard to reach all the spots with my battery out. Scrubbed what I could looks a bit better but the suds didnt touch anything i couldnt reach. Better than nothing i guess, Ran some suds through the bilge too and some of the water was pretty dirty.

 

http://www.sheddaquarium.org/nextgen/dawn-helps.html

 

They use Dawn to clean wildlife affected by oil spills.