Welcome to my home and today we're going to be discussing mold and mildew on
ceiling and walls. So come on in to this bathroom. This is the bathroom my sons
usually use. Hi there. I'm Lisa from Active Domestics and thank you for
watching. So here in this bathroom it has poor ventilation and what we have here is
mold. There is mold and mildew. The mold is those really darker spots that you
can see that's patchy. It's black and green in color and then there is
mildew which is sort of this general gray looking color along the top parts
of the wall where the humidity Rises the steam rises so it's particularly up on
the top parts of the walls and on those ceiling areas. So it was a little bit
hard to see so I've put it in the sepia color to hopefully improve that but it
was still just a little bit hard to see but it was quite bad there was quite a
significant amount this time. To remove the mold and the mildew, I'm using
vinegar nothing else but straight vinegar. This is just a one dollar bottle,
a 2 litre bottle of house hold vinegar. I'm using my flat mop just
giving it a really good soak so that both sides of that microfiber head can
really absorb the vinegar. Then I realized I'd better actually just let it
sit and have some of the excess drip off a little bit. Whilst that's happening I
just removed some of the things that are around the bathroom that I wouldn't
want to sort of get wet. It'll also give me a chance to clean some areas
that I don't always clean.
I tried to remove those love hearts off the wall because I wanted to give it a good
clean around there but - No.. I have to use a cloth and carefully do that because I
couldn't get it off.
Take that toilet paper out because we don't want to get vinegar
on that and I'm putting my gloves on. You'll see when I'm walking in and out
there I've got my non-slip shoes on and I'm walking really carefully because any
sort of moisture and with tiles you just don't want to slip.....Adjusting the pole of
the flat mop and getting it into position. Once it's in position I put my
left hand right at the bottom of the mop Pole so I always know where it is this
will help me to avoid banging the mop pole into the walls and of course I most
certainly do not want to bang the end of the mop pile into the glass screens!
You can see how easy it is to get there and that mildew parts came off really
quickly and easily. Now there's a problem that I'm having with this flat mop. The
velcro doesn't seem to be a very good quality ..I did sew the velcro back in
that appears I'm going to have to get a better quality velcro and sew it on so
that I can keep it keep its holding strength happening...It's a bit of a
design fault but otherwise it's a good mop ....So I'm using long sweeping movements
in the most part for cleaning most of the ceilings and the walls but where
there's a little spot of something that I think is more mold (than mildew) then I
am going over it again again and I want to get it really well soaked. I want that
vinegar to soak right into that area to actually kill the spores. Now many, many
people would reach for a bottle of bleach for these sorts of jobs but NO..
Do not do that! It was common ...used to be a common
belief that bleach was the "go to" for this kind of job, but these days where
all the information that I'm seeing is that all the bleach does is actually
remove the color from the black part of the mold it doesn't kill the mold
despite what the labels saying and that's why it grows back so quickly! You
know it does!! I've had that experience in the past. With this it will not grow back
quickly at all because we're actually we're killing off the mold spores.
Actually this bathroom had mold growing in it about a year ago and I did exactly
what I'm doing here today and I was quite surprised at how quickly
everything got cleaned up and the mold and the mildew was removed and then I
thought to myself, "Darn! I should have made a video!" and so I was not terribly
unhappy when I saw it grow back so I really wanted to show you all how
quickly and easy this is. This video is just all in real time and the job really
just took just over ten minutes. You can see, you know I'm cleaning all the
ceilings and all the walls in this bathroom with this particular mop and
the vinegar
the other reasons why you don't want to use (vinegar) BLEACH not only because it's not
actually killing the mold spores...I've heard, I've read that mold, when
it's exposed to bleach, the mold spores actually burst open and then
they release all their toxins into the air..
Well bleach is bad enough for your health, you know? Mold and bleach are bad
for your health and bleach can cause skin and lung irritations and mold can
also cause many health issues...If you've just got a spot of mold growing
you want to deal with it because remember mold
unlike mildew...mildew is a surface issue. Mold is a much deeper issue. It can
actually cause complete damage to the walls and the ceilings and
structures of your house... like different structures... people have had to rebuild
certain parts because of mold damage. You want to keep, you know you want to
respond to these signs ventilation of course is the key if my kids didn't
leave wet towels on the floor then, and always use the fan when they're in the
bathroom then this wouldn't be an issue and then you know it doesn't happen very
often but once it starts all growing it seems to not take too long for it to
become a much worse problem ----So folks--RESPOND
Get out your vinegar and mops. So both mold and mildew, they're both a type of
fungus
both of them love areas that have got high humidity dampness
although mold, mold is sort of more going on areas that have gotten wet. I mean the
main worse part of mold in this shower is directly up where the kids are
standing...Where they're under the shower and of course it must be splattering
water into the ceiling. They're all quite tall and they're no doubt
splattering some water into a spot in the ceiling on a fairly regular basis. So
I'm going over that particular area just above the shower are quite a number of
time because I really want that vinegar to penetrate. And that flat mop really
good for doing those edges there of that ceiling because you can actually get
right in quite nicely.
Some people actually might want to put some vinegar in a spray bottle and water
it down and then you might want to add some tea tree oil, or clove oil, or orange
or lemon oil, eucalyptus oil ..a few drops of that to actually help to deter the
growth of the mold. Some people also like it because of the smell. I mean the
vinegar smell-- it doesn't stick around for long. When I finished this job I just
left the door open and the fan going and the smell was gone with I don't know 10
minutes 15 minutes something like that. The smell did not linger. The vinegar
smell that is I'm talking about... So then I got a foot stool and a cloth and
dip the cloth in my vinegar and just using it to wipe those areas that needed
a little bit more attention in those corner bits. The other problem with using
bleach in your bathroom like a lot of people use it to clean their showers and
and what notice that's actually bleach can make your grouting dry out and crack
and then that can make, that can then end up, you can then end up having more
problems with mold because it'll just get in and grow in more places. If your
mold in (your room) is too bad you need to get a professional. This is dangerous stuff
remember and if it's a really bad problem get a professional to treat it
because otherwise you might just be masking it... you might be damaging your own
health or you might be masking the issue and it might be causing a lot of
problems to your house. So I was using the cloth to also wipe over all the
stainless steel fixtures because of course vinegar is very good at helping
to remove the water acid build up.. those water stains... bring them up nice and
shiny (Whoops, the door just banged shut.)
So I'm getting right in there into those corner bits because you know I've come
this far I may as well do the job properly. Do it once. Do it right. Doesn't
take a lot of effort. Just be careful when you're getting up and down the
stepladder as you can see it's just a small step ladder and it has those
non-slip, it's got rubber bits at the bottom part of it. So there you go. Just over ten
minutes and this job was completed and you can get you can see there it looks
lovely and clean. Those walls look lovely and shiny and clean. There's no
mildew. No mold. Looks good. Pretty darn happy with that
I barely even worked up a sweat.. So there those corner bits came up
really nice and those ceiling edges look great. There was one little area here
where I'm going to have to go and put a little bit more this was the area
directly with a kid's stand.. where I said it probably gets wet and splashes what
I'm going to do is just give that a bit more attention..
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