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.
White rot fungus, use very diluted bleach (like 5%, a cup of bleach in a gallon of water.) or vinegar (either might alter the wood finish though…), wrap the arm of the chair in paper towels and keep them damp with it for like 30 minutes or so to let it soak into the substrate of the mold inside the wood, and it should just come off with a brush.
Don’t let it go everywhere when brushing it off because the more you spread the spores, the more mold you get.
A steamer will likely make it grow more. It’ll look like it’s working but it’ll grow back worse.
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A quick google search seems to indicate that being mold/mildew. You should really check the humidity in your room/building and correct that, offhand it seems to be high if you repeatedly see mold growing there.
When you say “wooden areas of the room,” do you mean it’s on different wooden objects? That’s a chair in the picture, right? What else is it on?
Is the room humid? If it’s any kind of mold, streaming is a bad idea.
On some pieces of furniture. Not on others. Maybe it needs to spread, maybe the unaffected pieces are better sealed. The place gets marine air, so it’s very humid, but enclosed.
Mold growth on furniture is weird. Mold needs two things: moisture and something to eat. Usually if a room has enough moisture, you’re going to get mold or mildew on fabric and more porous things before you’re going to get it on treated wood. Does the room smell like mold or mildew?
It smells like an unused room, but dampness is there as it’s exposed to marine air. Can’t detect traces of mold on the porous items like linen, cushions etc, but I’m not too familiar with what to look out for. Any tips?
@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.
