I recently read an interesting blog post written by a friend about her experiences with mold in her home.
For more about mold, see The EPA website.
Every apartment I have lived in has had some degree of mold growing on the bathroom tiles. Of the products I've tried, it seems the only thing that will get rid of it temporarily is bleach, which can affect your health in high concentrations and is bad for the environment because it decomposes into dioxins.
Has anyone else had any luck with less toxic products?
Friday, April 18, 2008
Mold Can Cause Severe Health Problems
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Most places I've lived in had mold problems of varying degrees in the bathroom and/or kitchen. I've found that apartments in converted houses often have very poor ventilation for the bathrooms, making them especially susceptible to moisture accumulation that encourages molds.
There seems to be a lot of information online about molds, but little in the way of recommendations as to how to remove it apart from temporary solutions using Clorox (or other products that contain concentrated bleach.)
It seems that caulking is easily weakened by molds or chemical cleaning efforts. The general advice online seems to be to remove and replace mold-damaged caulking. Beyond that and bleach applications, the only other strategy seems to be preventative. Improving ventilation, lighting, wiping down surfaces, and eliminating bathroom clutter are all tactics that might help minimize mold growth (and reduce the amount of bleach you have to use...?)
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