Mildew and mold in bathrooms
December 13, 2009
Nothing can be more unpleasant than walking into a bathroom that you’ve freshly painted a few months back and you find the black stuff growing on the ceiling. It’s pretty simple to fix, just mix a cup of water and a half cup of bleach and dip a sponge into it and wipe in on the wall. You might have to let it set for a minute to work in if it’s really dry. You will find that even places where you might have had a roof leak and mold in growing under the drywall tape, you can use bleach to kill the mold and then clean the surface. If you have a recurring mold problem, you have to find a way to eliminate the moisture or it will keep coming back-over and over again.
If you have tub sealed in white silicon to hide an unfinished edge on the floor or on the wall surround, you may encounter another issue with the mold problem. Most of the time people will just let this go because let’s face i; known one likes working with nasty, smelly bleach water and it’s work getting all the ingredients around to stop the mold from growing and to kill it when you got it.
If you notice the bottom edge of the grout line in your bath or shower is black, it’s mildew. You need to kill it because it won’t go away on it’s own.
