What to clean the greenhouse with?

I need to pull the plants out of the greenhouse and give it a good cleaning before I put my tropicals in. So what do I use? I hate the smell of bleach. Will soap and water take care of the mold? What to do? Any advice would be appreciated. I have lots of plants in there now and alot more that will need to go in for the winter.
Linda

I found this page the other day (trying to figure out how to rbest remove all the smudgy fingerprints from my newly assembled greenhouse.) I peeked in your threads and see you have a Rion, so maybe these polycarbonate cleaning tips will help?
http://www.charleysgreenhouse.com/index.cfm?page=_twcleaning
Sheri

Thanks so much for the web sight. Yes it was very helpful. Joy dish soap it is, I was going to use simple green as its suppost to be bio-degradable. Its really interesting that you can use windex with ammonia. Off to clean it now. By the way I love my greenhouse.
Linda

I thought the windex with ammonia was kind of surprising, too.

Glad you like the Rion, I think they look wonderful. Mine is the (less expensive )Harbor Freight, but I think I'll enjoy it. We had finger prints everywhere as we wrestled it together, and then all our desert dust stuck to the fingerprints. LOL, it looked like it had been assembled by kids eating jelly sandwiches! My husband says I might as well accept the fact that a greenhouse in the desert will be dirty, but you know, you gotta clean it sometimes! :-)

The Windex with ammonia doesn't really have very much ammonia in it, that's probably why it's OK. And since it's supposed to be used on glass and shiny things, I think it has less stuff in it than other cleaners. Simple Green's not nearly as green as the name would lead you to believe, it's probably not all that different from the Lysol and 409 which that article mentions as being bad for cleaning polycarbonate, so I'd stay away from it.

Linda,
Every spring I clean my greenhouse panels and tables using Physan 20. It kills algae and fungi as well as bacteria and viruses. The heat and humidity of Florida gives me lots of algae during the growing season and it works very well to clean that off all my GH surfaces.

Robin

http://www.physan.com/

Thanks for the link, Robin. I'm glad to know about that product too.
Sheri

Thanks also I have lots of orchids and this seems to be a good thing for them.
Linda

Robin,

HI, is Physan 20 ok for a polycarbonate GH?
It won't hurt it ?

KW

KW,
This statement is from Physan's website: CORROSION AND DAMAGE TO MATERIALS: PHYSAN in use dilutions, will not damage or mar natural rubber, glass, painted or plastic surfaces. It is non-corrosive to all metals in normally used applications for swabbing, mopping and rinsing. PHYSAN is non-flammable and non-explosive.

I have a polycarbonate GH that I puchased from Charley's in May of 2002. I have used Physan to clean it for the past three years with no ill effects. It is amazing how much light comes through once it has been cleaned. I do it early in the year so as to not shock the plants with more light then they are used to. I also use it as the initial soak for my seedling soil. It seems to help inhibit algae growth on the soil surface.

Robin

I just cleaned mine this weekend with soap and water.I am amazed at how much better and brighter it looks. Looks like new again.
Linda

I used dish soap and water but am serously considering getting the Physan.

I just ordered Physan 20. Thanks for the recommendation
Linda