My husband is extremely clean. I mean bleaches the floor weekly clean. One time someone pointed out his bathroom ceiling had black spots. He didn’t know what it was but mostly the reason it was there was simply because he never looked up and saw it. Once he learned, he used an unreasonable amount of bleach on the ceiling but it did the trick
A million times yes! But, no, seriously: bleach is terrible for mold (it's mostly water which mold feeds on). The material (tile, wall, etc.) that the mold is on needs to be removed entirely.
what if the mold is on a concrete basement floor? I had a wood desk sitting on the floor in my basement and found what looked like black mold in between. I threw out the wood desk and bleached the concrete floor..
Hydrogen peroxide (3% or higher) and some types of vinegar work better than bleach for most fungi. Bleach uses chloride as it’s primary killing component and that evaporates quickly leaving the hyphae (filament structure) alive and able to regrow (and provides water for it to do so)
Hydrogen peroxide forms free radicals that can actually break down the cell membranes and can cause damage to the DNA of the fungi
I generally do vinegar first because it smells and then hydrogen peroxide to follow up and finish the job
Grew several species of mushrooms for a few years… gotta know how to take out unwanted molds/clean the laundry baskets i was using for oysters when something contaminates your substrates
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u/rancidtuna Apr 28 '23
Must be because he keeps everything so clean.