Bathroom Mould Help Please

squibbs25

Can guarantee this works:

Bicarbonate of soda MIXED with bleach, apply if needed with toothbrush!
Leave on for couple of hours, then rinse off with water.

Got the tip off here a week ago, tried it and it worked fab!

Good luck.

Squibbs

EagerLearner

We also have mould in our bathroom - sorted for now but I know we will need to keep an eye on it in Winter!

Sorry to 'hijack' thread but our kitchen and bedroom are also showing signs of mould - dots in the kitchen and some green dust in the bedroom nearest window - we keep the bedroom window open all day to allow condensation to evaporate and also kitchen top window is open all the time.

What else can we do - our food in the kitchen is starting to feel wet and I am worried as winter draws in it will only get worse...

Pink.

Hi

Some of the replies on these older threads might help with getting rid of the mould:

cleaning bathroom

mould round bath

Advise need on how to remove mould from bathroom sealant

Mould

cleaning mouldy curtains

How do I shift mould/mildew stains??

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culpepper

My architect FIL recommended bleach as it kills the mould. He also pointed out that if you ventilate the room,you shouldn't get the damp that leads to mould in the first place.
We put in an extractor fan in our bathroom and don't get mould anymore.

Ancalime

Hi everyone
I've just recently Joined the Money Saving Expert forums so sorry if this has been asked before but does anyone have an old stylee method for removing mould from a bathroom wall, Its on the inside of an external wall and looks really horrible:(. The cheaper the better as I'm on benifets and a very strict budget at the moment plus the flat is rented and I don't want to do to must to it.

TIA

Ancalime

mrs_baggins

It depends on what type of wall covering you have I think. If its painted try spraying it with one of those spray bottles with water/bleach mixture. What you really have to do though is to find out why its so bad. Have you rented it for long? if its bad maybe its something the landlord should be doing ? Its usually caused through lack of ventilation and or heating. You could always try to beg or borrow a dehumidifier to try to get rid of the damp. I know its hard in the winter but also try to avoid dring clothes on radiators as this just creates more moisture and things like leaving the lids off pans also creates more moisture as well

Pink.

Hi Ancalime,

Welcome to MSE and in particular to the Old Style board.

The suggestions on this recent thread might help you. mould in bathroom

I'll merge your thread with it later as it helps to keep all the suggestions together.

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nicki_2

I've put little pots of salt in the corners of the rooms where we get mould. It absorbs SOME of the moisture from the air and in just a couple of days I've noticed a difference I've had to resort to using straight bleach to try and combat the mould in our house

I think it was MATH who posted the idea about the salt pots originally for their coast home but I thought I'd try it out here.

Montymoo_2

furndire wrote:

I know it goes against Money Saving Old Style rules, but Dettox Mould & Mildew remover works really well. I think diluted bleach does as well, but not as good as above.

we use this too, only after we had tried everything else

Ancalime

Thanks for all your help I will get down to getting rid of it tomorrow, The wall covering is gloss paint and woodchip wall paper. I let the landlord know about the damp and he just said that once I had the heating on it would stop (which it hasn't) and the bathroom in the flats below me were worse and that a mould remover would get it off. So no help there. Thanks again for all the tips I now have a few things I can combat it with.:T