Mildew/mould on bathroom walls?

[Station]

I'm almost ashamed to say it, but not ashamed to say I'm fed up with it and however much I try it keeps coming back!

In the bathroom, after about 3 months of sanding and repainting, we are getting that stupid mould building up in tiny hairline cracks in the paint. I have just repainted it with external anti-fungal paint and had a new extractor fan installed, and hoping this will cure it, but it just seems to come back whatever (no sign yet though)!
The house is totally clean, and I know this happens in clean and moist places anyway. I'll have to tile over if that's the case.

I heard good ventilation is helpful - the fan is on for hours after showers and the heating is on all the time! It looks hideous and embaressing!

we use white vinegar you can also mix this with (baking soda or) bicarbonate of soda it fizzes when mixed don't panic. but the mould is caused by bad ventilation, if you simply spray the surfaces after a shower white vinegar or a mix of this and bicarb/and lemon juice it will reduce the problem.let us know how you get on
5ltrs white vinegar is around £3.00. ventilation is free

[jamied]

http://www.ehow.com/how_114981_troub...-interior.html

also have you got normal carpet in your bathroom?

[TINTIN]

Paint the walls with watered down pva glue. Give it a good three or four coats and repaint in your choice of colour. This should cure it. Failing that you'll need to either wipe down after showering or improve the ventilation more

[james sport]

Ventilation is the key, you cant have to much!!!
If you have a window, keep it open as much as you can, no extractor fan can come close the drying effects of a breeze from outside. Even in the winter you need that window open for at least the duration of your shower, ideally 20 minutes after as well.

[KillBill]

Just steam clean the **** off if it proves persistant.

That household 'Steambird' steam cleaner I sto... I mean borrowed off my mum is great for everything, degreasing engines - check, getting rid of moths - check, getting hydraulic fluid out of clothes - check, removing mildew - check

[Station]

Where are these from?

I never had these troubles at my ma's.

[KillBill]

Where's what from... mould?

[Trevor]

In Soviet Russia the mould grows on you!

[MSG]

for me the thick bleach (Domestos) does the job and kills the mould for about 3 months and then its time for reapplication, but mine only effects the tile grout, starts becomming black, and soon as you apply bleech it goes white, wheather it just bleeches or changes the colur from black to white I don't know so it may still be there as a white mould, but who cares as long as it is not visual.

If you are getting an internal mould growth, along a section of the wall, despite your heater and extractor fan, don't rule out leaking or overflowing gutters which can keep the external walls damp and the damp then causes the internal mould growth.

Also worth a try, using oil based paint, apply a couple of coats and then paint emuslion or vinal paint if thats what the wall is finished in, or if using wall paper, then you will also need a stronger glue that sticks to oil based paint such a sthe pva based glue.

[BigDave1979]

I have to use anti-mildew stuff on my bathroom ceiling every 6 months or so. Get it from B&Q and can't remember the exact name of it now, but it's a clear liquid that you brush on and wipe off, then I repaint it with moisture resistant bathroom paint. Keeps it at bay for a while. I have no ventilation in the bathroom apart from a barely functional extractor fan.

[Paul]

Can you not get special paint to stop this?

[MSG]

Don't read if you don't like long posts.

I have treated serious mould growth in some tenants bedroom, they lost the key to the only opening window in their bedroom, and hence never opened the window to ventilate the room. On top of that they dried all their clothes on the central heating rads, the kitchen did not have an extractor fan when cooking but were told to open the window vent to ventilate, the bath room had the same senario, the extractor fan had packed up, so the mould not only grew on the bathroom curtain and tile grouts and in the corners, but by far the worst place was the bedroom.

In the bed room, the twin wardrobes with dressing table/drawer unit between the two caused 1" thick mould growing and spreading all along the wall behind the wardrobes, spreading to their bedding, matteress and bloody douve, it was unbelivable, absolutely hell, the growth had also spread to the rear panels of the wardrobe and penetrated inside into their clothing as well. How they blamed the landlord of the property for whom i was dealing with these tenant, they were blaming the problem on a rising damp causing the growth,

So I agreed to help the get rid of it and tame them to dry clothes on the outside clothes line, and open as many windows to ventilate the place, and fixed the bathroom extractor fan with a 20min self timer, soaked the tiles in bleach, and the curtain.

But to tackle the Bedroom was a real nightmare, as soon as you touched those moulds, or growth, they just seemed to be toatally dry powder like and millions of spores just started to float away into the air, I had to wear a breathing mask and removed the powdery type of mould with a bleach soaking wet cloth and rinse the wjole wall and the back of the wardrobe, ceiling, around the windows and clean throughly and then ran 2 heaters set on 3Kwatts each running for 6 hours until the wall dried up, it was very damp.

after drying I painted oil based paint, and after that dried up painted the emulsion, back of the wardrobes back hardboard panel was throughly sealed with two coats of oil based paint, it was a two day job, everything was throughly systamatically cleaned out, place hoovered, for any pores still left about, old matress thrown away along with loads of clothing, towels, pillows, douve, and replaced with new at the expense of the tenant, because we managed to persuade him that it was his fault for drying clothes on rads and loosing the window key, he wasn't a happy chap but then again he was as started to suffer from that mould himself.

[gixerboyuk]

Have used a Mould and Mildew remover in a trigger spray before by Astonish <-company on bottle. About a £1.50 from Wilkos. Very effective, worked all around the bathroom including the bottom of shower curtain and still mould free 6 month later. Even used it on an old car seat stored in the shed and thats hunky dory as well