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Keep black mold out of your bathroom remodel
One of the reasons why I remodeled my bathroom was to get rid of the black mold
that was slowly taking over the place. It was a drastic step I know but I was
losing the battle with the mold and it was a good excuse to get a new bathroom.
My plan was to rip everything out of my small bathroom and replace with new. At the same time I would kill all the mold so that it could not return. Well it didn't quite go to the plan I had envisaged but I did eventually find an effective solution.
What black mold looks like
Black bathroom mold is a fungus and it looks like a black stain that spreads
around the edges of your bathtub and shower and around the grout in your ceramic
tiles. The mold seems to get inside the sealer and the grout making it impossible
to remove without replacing whatever it's growing in.
For years I had tried to keep the mold in my bathroom at bay by making sure that surfaces were wiped down regularly with bleach and that there was plenty of ventilation and that nothing stayed damp for too long. Every 3-6 months I would cut out all the silicon sealer and grout that had been contaminated by the black mold and replace with new. It always came back and I was getting pretty frustrated with it.
Here's a black mold picture just before I remodeled the bathroom
As you can see the black mold was well entrenched in the sealer and grout around
the edges of the bathtub and grout between the ceramic tiles. It had to go.