Cleaning mould?

bluebag

Hi, it would help keep the mould down a lot if you can make sure the room is adequately heated and ventilated too.

Drying washing on radiators, showers, baths, cooking and even people living in a room generate water into the atmosphere. When this moist air hits a cold surface it condenses, which means the water is deposited on the cold surface.

A lot of older housing is single brick and so the outside walls are quite cold. Windows, even double gazed are cold too.
Keeping furniture away from outside walls improves the ventilation, even if you only leave a gap of a few inches.


So try to open windows when cooking, after showering or using a lot of steam and dry as much washing as possible outside or in a tumble dryer (not always that easy on a budget ). The less water that stays in the air the better.

Hope you manage to improve it a bit until the problem is fixed.

All the best to you, I don't know your circumstances but it sounds like life if giving you a bit of a kicking at the moment. Much hugs.

Sublime_2

I used to get this in a bathroom. I used either diluted bleach, or dettol mould/mildew remover, which worked effectively, and kept the window open a crack which helped keep the problem at bay.

Perhaps worth speaking to environmental health?

arunadasi

The grout on my bathroom was covered in huge spotches of black mould. I used this HG spray and it disappeared within minutes.
However, according to the description,

HG Hagesan Mould Spray effectively removes all black and brown stains caused by mould, fungus, moss and algae inside and outside. HG Mould Spray bleaches grey and black mould spots and green algae spots.

So all it does is bleaches the mould? Does it not actually remove it -- ie. it's still there, but you can't see it?

lisawood78

This thread has been bumper by a spammer folks, original op was over 3 years ago.

lucy_lemon

Resurrecting an old thread in the hope that someone might be able to help! I have a huge (to me, probably minor to other people!) problem with mould behind my wardrobe! We have now moved the wardrobe, but the mould spots are obviously still there. I have read about spraying the wall with a mix of water and bleach, but I am not sure if you are then supposed to rub the wall? Because if I do all the paint will come off

Any ideas?

sophlowe45

So glad to see this thread.

I have mould on my window and the brickwork around it from winter, my friend just wiped it off with water and i think threw the cloth away. However, i can only reach about half the window standing on a chair so the other half of the window is still full of mould, and it got onto the curtains too. I have bought a mould remover spray but if i can't reach the top half of the window a bit pointless to buy it but i will go over the whole area i can reach again with it.

I keep my window open even when its freezing cold! But i never bought a dehumidifier, probably should do though.

Lucy_lemon use a mould remover spray and repaint the area with anti mould paint?

studio_two

Yes, me too.

I have been thinking about creating my own solution from watered down bleach (as the "mould and mildew" spread are quite expensive).

Justamum

The problem with mould is that it always seems to come back. We had a big problem in a house we used to rent. We sprayed bleach on and wiped it all off, but it would still come back. We had a new baby at the time too, and it was in our bedroom where the baby also slept. Luckily we didn't have to live there too long, but it was a problem we just couldn't eradicate. Having said that, I think that it was caused by a problem with the bricks - it looked like some of them needed repointing.

sophlowe45

I think its also because i dont put the heating on much in winter.

I got an Astonish Mould and Mildew Remover from the 99p store.

ingredients 750ml bottle
2.25g /kg Clorine based bleaching agents
less than 5%
Anionic surfactants
sodium hydroxide

How about Stardrops seeing as it has so many uses?

Badrick

We had problems with mould in the shower, tried the usual bleach based stuff which was next to useless, had a look on Amazon and the reviews looked promising for Astonish Mould Remover. We weren't expecting great things for £1.52 a bottle and we had to treat it 3 times to get rid of mould, but we've not had to use it again since mid June. We've also tried it on UPVC window frames with good results. For anyone thinking of getting it from Amazon, you need to check price daily as it has fluctuated between 74p and £3.16 over last few days.