What is it? Seems to grow out of some wooden areas in the room. I’ve tried peroxide and bleach. Would a steamer help? Sorry in advance for the bad picture quality.
From a person with a lot of years of experience fighting mold on wood in a humid climate, what you want is borax:
https://www.thisoldhouse.com/green-home/21331232/killing-mold-on-wood
Borax kills mold and also soaks into wood and stays there to prevent future growth. Bleach does not help on porous surfaces like wood:
"Note that bleach should not be used to kill mold found on wood. While bleach is very effective for killing mold on non-porous surfaces, it doesn’t work well when it comes to wood. This is because the chlorine in bleach can’t penetrate wood, so only the water portion of the bleach gets absorbed.
The mold may appear to be removed from the surface, but it’ll likely continue to grow underneath and return within a few months."
Now I’m interested in trying this on my shower grout. I wonder if it would work the same way. I’ll have to check and make sure it’s safe on stone and grout.
Same! Cleaning grout is so exhausting and inevitable. Something to stop mold from growing would really help.
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Well, it’s definitely mold.
That is super weird mold, if it is one.
There really isn’t much of a nutrient source, it’s growing on a clear coat and it’s sporadic. If it was one big spot or a continuous line, that would make more sense to me.
The picture makes it look like a somewhat clean and dry environment as well.
My guess is some kind of chemical reaction, but that is probably wrong.
@JeeBaiChow that’s white mold. Steamer will make it worse. It likes moisture and its spores are in the wood.
Ideally a professional mould killer would be best. Otherwise:
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Put water and baking soda on it, leave for a while, then wash off
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Scrub with vinegar
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If possible, lightly sandpaper the wood and then re-varnish
Thanks. This also sounds like a doable thing. It’s annoying cuz it’s a living space, so it’s likely the spores are getting everywhere. Don’t know where it came from either.
@JeeBaiChow it probably came in on someone’s clothing.
That’s a chair? It shouldn’t just be growing there randomly. So you live in a highly humid environment? Eesh.
Sounds like it could be some mineral growth. This happens a lot in humid area. I’ve read magnesium is especially susceptible to this.
I had given it a thought that it may be crystallized salt from the marine air, but it doesn’t dissolve. The clusters are almost hydrophobic in water at first but end up as a suspension when stirred around, i.e. not soluble.
