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Visitor Tips: 6 Steps on How to Remove Mold & Mildew
When is Mold and Mildew a Problem?
If you live in a humid climate, you have to deal with mold and mildew growing everywhere.
Although you can buy products, there is a product in your home that will do just as good of a job…maybe even better.
Here’s how:
6 Important Steps on Mold Removal
- Get an old empty spray bottle.
- Place 1/2 cup of bleach in the bottle.
- Now add 2 cups of water.
- Cover any areas that you don’t want bleach spots on with newspaper or plastic.
- Spray the area you want to remove the mold and mildew.
- Go away for 15 minutes. Check when you return to see if it is completely gone. If not, wait another 15 minutes. Do this until all the mold is gone.
Important Tips to Remember
::This will work with fabrics too! Simply fill a sink or bucket with water and add 1 cup of bleach. Let the item soak for up to 1 hour.
:: If the mold or mildew is stubborn, you can add another 1/2 cup of bleach to your mixture.
Important Warnings to Remember
:: Make sure you cover any items you do not want bleach stains on!
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Joslyn from the MoldBlogger Team
(Guide courtesy of WikiHow.com)
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A couple of observations. When applying a water bleach solution to a substrater with mold, you are in fact wetting and adding water content. The bleach solution may kill surficial mold, but not penetrate to mold embedded in the substrate. After a day or so the concentration of bleach may be low enough for the mold to begin to regrow on the surface, and thanks to the water you added it may come back worse than before.
Tertiary note bleach may kill the mold, but barring through vacuuming the spores and mycellar fragments will remain in place. Even dead mold in sufficient quantity can create allergic responses.
Adding a surfactant or detergent to the bleach solution may help to complete remove the mold from the substrate. Where possible ventilation should be increased to the area (after cleaning) to arrest or minimize subsequent mold growth.
Some caution should be taken with orienting a fan directly on a poorly cleaned surface, as you may cause airborne dispersal of mold.
A bleach and detergent solution is likely a good mixture for small sections of impermeable (non porous) materials like: Tile, countertops, vinyl — etc.
Edwin Boyette on December 18th, 2007