Toilet Bowel Cleaner Caused Van to be Totaled

I often get email stories from other business associates and this one came from Sherrie Atilla in Michigan.
You will be shocked by this testimony of a man in a networking group who shared what happened when he bought a toilet bowel cleaner from Sam’s Club.

Here is the background to the story:

One of my new business associates, Corey Davis, was at his BNI Business Networking ) group in Kalamazoo, MI and at his turn, he was sharing about our awesome Green Clean Product Line

As the members went around taking their turns, Matthew Rzepka stood to give his 1 minute commercial about his CPA business and stopped and told everyone at the meeting that they really needed to listen to Corey and then shared this testimony.

He was willing to email it to Corey so everyone could hear about their family’s experience and be alerted!!!

Sherrie Attila

Here is Matthew’s story about his toilet boil cleaner:
Matthew L. Rzepka, CPA, CFP® Managing Partner / Owner

At the local Sam’s Club, my wife purchased a 4 pack, shrink wrapped, of “The Works” toilet bowl cleaner. On the way home, in the back of our van, it tipped over, and some leaked out (about half a bottle) on the seat and the carpet because of a hole in the top of one of the bottles. The seat, the carpet and the underlying steel were all damaged.

The final resolution: our insurance company totaled the van, because of the spill!

According to the insurance company and poison control, the fumes from the toilet bowl cleaner made the interior environment of the van permanently unsafe for anyone, especially young children, so we wouldn’t be able to drive the van any more.

The fumes also corroded any exposed metal in the van and poison control warned over time would ruin most if not all electrical connections.  After the van was cleaned and repaired to the fullest extent possible, it was still determined that eventually, the residual fumes would continue to have a chemical reaction and deteriorate anything left in the van, leaving the van completely useless and unsafe, hence the insurance companies decision to total the vehicle was made.”

Editor’s Note: At first many of us will find the story amazing however we cannot blindly purchase cleaning products without doing some research on the health issues that these cleaning products can cause….when it damages steel and renders a vehicle unsafe for anyone to drive and destroy any electrical connections we need to rethink our purchase of cleaning products. That is why I am a strong advocate of Shaklee’s Get Clean line of products.