Drippy, icky bathroom fun!

fillsthepews — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:31:26 -0800

Mold and bleach? How much to kill it, but not me? (And I guess not my roommate, too.) I've got some seriously moldy bathroom walls. This is a rental home, and I'm looking quite forward to moving out of it in the fall.

I'm looking for an easy, inexpensive solution to getting the mold off. Past askmetafilter questions say to wash the walls with bleach (straight?) or a bleach solution. Well... color me ignorant, but is it safe to simply spray the walls w/ bleach? If I need to make a solution, is there a standard bleach/water recipe?

Basically, this bathroom hardly ever dries. So, if the wall hardly ever dries, I have concerns about the walls being bleach and stinky the next time I take a shower after I clean it - possibly to an unhealthy, annoying level. Not to mention brushing against the wall with fabric and ruining it.

Am I being paranoid? I feel like a total cleaning n00b.

I must get the musty out!

spinifex23 — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 10:22:00 -0800

How do I get the musty smell out of a room, after the musty item has been cleared away? My roommates love to camp. After one trip, they brought home their sleeping bags, and left them to dry under the dining room table, on a rug. Unfortunately, that was the same week we had really hot, really humid weather, and the sleeping bags became moldy instead. There's no mold anywhere else in the condo.

They have since moved the sleeping bags down to the basement (they will be washed later), but the musty smell has now permeated the whole first floor of the condo. And it's aggravating my asthma. I've tried leaving a window open for ventilation, but the condo has really horrid airflow, so it's not clearing out. I'm giving the place a thorough cleaning this weekend in case there's something I missed. If not, how can I get rid of this smell?

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Drippy, icky bathroom fun!

I must get the musty out!