Can I adequately clean a mildewed bookshelf for food storage? [more inside]
posted on Apr 14, 2008 - 9 answers

What is the strange smell emanating from certain areas of our apartment? It's very strong and sour, like boiled cabbage...and it's confined to the front hallway and the bathroom. [more inside]
posted on Apr 6, 2008 - 9 answers

How do I kill a mildew smell -behind- a sink? [more inside]
posted on Jan 20, 2008 - 8 answers

Is it possible to "seal" furniture in a plastic bag to protect it from mold while stored in a basement? Please help me protect my inheritance until I have a bigger house! [more inside]
posted on Jan 20, 2008 - 15 answers

What would cause a woman's vaginal discharge to smell strongly of mildew? [more inside]
posted on Dec 7, 2007 - 14 answers

Our kitchen sponge starts to smell like mildew after less than a week of normal use. We use a standard "scrubby" sponge that has an abrasive side and an absorbent sponge side. Has anybody else experienced this problem, and if so, what did you do about it, or do you have any general advice about keeping sponges from mildewing quickly? [more inside]
posted on Aug 13, 2007 - 37 answers

I have 2 related questions about sump pumps. 1) Will bleach damage the pump? 2) Is there a way to monitor the pump for failure (or the water level which would tell me the same thing) easily? [more inside]
posted on Jul 24, 2007 - 9 answers

What are your favorite heavy-duty cleaning products and super-cleaning secrets? [more inside]
posted on Jul 11, 2007 - 28 answers

How do I prevent or treat mold, or any other kind of growth, on a couch in a screened in porch? [more inside]
posted on Apr 26, 2007 - 3 answers

Know of any car care specialists in or around Brooklyn that can make my car stop smelling so bad? [more inside]
posted on Mar 27, 2007 - 5 answers

How to best mitigate a *severe* mold/mildew problem? [more inside]
posted on Jan 15, 2007 - 12 answers

Basements, mildew, and mold, oh my... [more inside]
posted on Jul 23, 2006 - 4 answers

I have a ceramic water crock and have recently noted an odd taste in the water that it dispenses. I've tried pouring several kettles of boiling water through it, and running the water through the spout, with no results. I'm wondering if anyone has suggestions for cleaning out the crock, getting rid of the strange mildew-ey taste..?
posted on Jul 5, 2006 - 6 answers

Are there environmentally friendly ways of cleaning the bathroom, especially to remove mildew from the grout around the shower? [more inside]
posted on Jun 27, 2006 - 20 answers

MildewFilter: Is there a way to remove mildew off of a painted indoor wall without bleaching/stripping the paint? [more inside]
posted on Apr 9, 2006 - 7 answers

ApartmentFilter: Is it financially safe to not clean up impeccably when moving out of an apartment, or will a landlord normally go after you for money over and above the security deposit, if they think enough work was involved? [more inside]
posted on Jan 26, 2006 - 17 answers

Does bleach need to be neutralized after the mildew is cleaned, and before painting? Bad mildew in the tenant's bathroom. Scrubbed with 1:2 bleach:water to great success. After it is rinsed, then dries thoroughly, can it be primed and painted, or does it have to be neutralized, or ??
posted on Jul 19, 2005 - 6 answers

Please help me with my smelly chest (chest of drawers that is...)
posted on Feb 3, 2005 - 12 answers

Please help me save my books. The movers just dropped off several rooms worth of my pretties, which have been sitting in a storage facility in Kansas for nearly two years. I was, needless to say, ecstatic, until I realized that fully a quarter of the boxes show signs of wetness around the bottom. Looks like they've been sitting in an inch or so of water for Logos knows how long. At least the bottom layer of each box is thoroughly soaked, and stinky. What is my best path at this point to dry out/preserve/resuscitate/de-mildew?
posted on Aug 27, 2004 - 10 answers

My hot water smells moldy (more inside)..
posted on Jan 3, 2004 - 9 answers