Steve Hansen here with the Jan Torosdoor.com where we help clean and business owners scale their businesses and build system-relying companies, not owner-relying companies. Say I had somebody contact me through chat today and they were asking me about dilution ratios. You know they didn't understand how to dilute how much chemical in water. So I explained that to them and they were very grateful. Also let them know that you know I actually got a chart in the in the download library of the Jan Torosdoor so they can go in and just use that chart too if they just want to make it a real easy for them. But anyway you know I've got this product here, Viper Venom, a fantastic product for cleaning ceramic, toilet and grout. But it cleans a lot of other things too. So for example when you read the label it will say on here that you know let's say if I want to clean porcelain and chrome I dilute one part Viper Venom to 12 parts water. Okay so really what does that mean? One to 12. You know if you don't understand that it really means nothing to you. And really what it's doing is telling you how many ounces per chemical per gallon of water is what it means. So if we're to take that example whenever you're reading anything like that it says well you know one to two one to 12 one to nine one to 30. What it's telling you is that it's one part water or one part chemical and then so many parts water. So the first number is always part chemical. The second number is always part water. So in this example where it said that it was one to 12 to clean the porcelain and chrome what we would do is if you needed to calculate that you would just take 128 ounces because that's how many ounces are in a gallon and you divide that by 12. So and when you do that you end up with 10.6 ounces of chemical. So that tells me that I need to dilute that product 10.6 ounces per gallon of water. So that's pretty straightforward. Now in some cases you might just decide to go ahead and round up that number. For example if I had one to nine so that's one part chemical with nine parts water that would end up being 14.2 ounces of chemical per gallon of water. Rather than trying to measure out 14.2 ounces I just rounded off the 14 ounces and you should be fine. But anyway that's really all there is to it. So whenever you read on on a container that may say one to 12 one to nine one to three one to one whatever it is that's how you would break it down. So always remember that that one is the chemical the first number one is the chemical the second number if it's one to nine one to 10 one to 14 that is always a parts water and always take that second number and divide it by 128 which equals 128 ounces in a gallon. That will tell you how many ounces per gallon you need to dilute that product by it. So really that's that's all that's all easy it is. So next time you come across something like that don't be intimidating or anything just simply do the math and everybody's got a phone nowadays so just get out your phone and get up the calculator and go ahead and do the division. Then you're going to be able to go ahead and measure out exactly the amount of chemical you need for whatever process you're doing doesn't matter if you're stripping floors or if you're just preparing some general cleaning solution some sanitizer it really doesn't matter. So just do that and always make sure that when you teach us to somebody else that they do the same thing. In fact here's a little trick that I've done. It's not a trick it's just a little tip but I write it right on the gallon. So now when my crews out there in the field they don't need to do the math they just need to look at the gallon where I've marked on here you know depending on what we're doing it tells them how many ounces per gallon for the process that we're doing. So make it easy on them you know just write it on the gallon that way they know and they're all good to go but hopefully this tip is good or this tip helps you that's it make sure you like or share the video and if you have any questions I can answer them answer them in the post or in the post or if you have any questions post them down below in the comments section and I'll be happy to answer them. So until next time have a good one.