Recently, we were called in for a mold remediation job. The homeowners were concerned about a build up of mold in their master bathroom shower stall as well as a strong odor that they couldn’t place.
Apparently, they had tried several methods to clean the shower stall and after every attempt failed, they hired a professional cleaning service.
“I finally hired a cleaning company to get rid of the mold and they couldn’t do it,” one homeowner told our mold inspection expert.
The homeowners were unable to get rid of the mold because they were simply applying topical cleaning agents, such as bleach, to the moldy materials. Likewise, the cleaning company came in and used whatever cleaning solutions it had trying to make the mold disappear. Mold, however, does not just disappear and moldy materials cannot simply be cleaned; they must be removed.
A common myth that many homeowners hold is that bleach kills mold. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Mold is rooted into a mold spore. While beach has more power on non-porous surfaces, it cannot reach into porous surfaces, such as grout or caulk where bathroom mold usually grows, and thus, affects only the top layer of mold by bleaching the color. In essence, bleach only removes stains, not the mold, because it does not have any effect on destroying the roots of mold spores. Furthermore, there is some argument that bleach worsens the problem because it tends to make surfaces more porous due to its abrasive nature. Currently, publicly available chemical mold cleaners are bleach-based.
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