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Get rid of mold in bedrooms

With the weather being so cold and damp, parts of the house that are north facing and don’t get the little sun we do get during the day just stay cold and damp.

We’ve had to use an electric fan in the bedroom every day to dry the blankets on our bed, we wake up in the morning and feel like the dew from outside has descended on the top of the bed, although from researching online it seems this is normal when you sleep in a room with no heating.

This morning I stripped the bed down and found mold on my pillow, but luckily it’s an Ikea foam pillow with a removable external cover and I was able to wash it in a very strong bleach mix and surprisingly all the mold came out.

The blankets don’t have mold so I just hung them outside to air and dry out. In situations like these it’s important to clean all the furniture, even using bleach on the back of dressers to kill any spores that might be forming unseen.

At the same time I also washed the walls down with a highly concentrated bleach mix, then mopped the floors, and then just to finish everything off I left the bed unmade while the electric fan dries everything out, including the mattress.

Our health is too important to allow mold to develop in an already damp house, and bleach is cheap so using a bottle every few weeks is a small price to pay for peaceful nights and no allergies.

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categories Cleaning | Pixabella | datetime January 18, 2009 7:26 pm | comments Comments (0)

Mold in the house

We’ve got mold in our house, and it seems to be taking over in some rooms. you know the white puffy mold and black mold that looks like ant droppings? That’s what we’ve got.

The bathroom was the worst affected because there isn’t enough ventilation or an extractor fan so when we have showers the steam settles on the ceiling and it just stay wet.

The other problem area is the kitchen, but in fact our kitchen and living room is a big open plan room so the problem there is crying walls, we just can’t seem to keep them dry.

The bedroom is another problem, one wall is always cold because it doesn’t get the sun, so we had black mold growing on the wall and furniture that was up against it.

Opening all the doors and windows during the day hasn’t helped much, we just don’t get enough sunshine and the wind feels cold and damp, so all we can do is use a fan to blast air around the areas.

Cleaning mold off walls, ceilings, and other things is painful, I’ve tried everything from the supermarket, and the only thing that seems to work is bleach, straight from the bottle, and not mixed with water.

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categories Cleaning | Pixabella | datetime January 1, 2009 6:06 pm | comments Comments (0)