I have tried everything to get rid of this around the shower /bath
particularly on the silicone round the bath .I have tried bleach which
did nothing ,Screwfix's No-Nonsense mould spray which again did
nothing .I got the other day Lakelands Mould Remover which you leave
on for 2 periods of 30 minutes .What it has done has taken away the
blackness and lightened it to a sort of pale putty colour which
doesn't look so obvious .
I guess the only real answer is to strip out the silicone and renew it
and scrape out the grout where it is affected and regrout and wipe the
surfaces down each time it is used .

Usenet Nutter
wibbled on Thursday 31 December 2009 12:12

I have tried everything to get rid of this around the shower /bath
particularly on the silicone round the bath .I have tried bleach which
did nothing ,Screwfix's No-Nonsense mould spray which again did
nothing .I got the other day Lakelands Mould Remover which you leave
on for 2 periods of 30 minutes .What it has done has taken away the
blackness and lightened it to a sort of pale putty colour which
doesn't look so obvious .
I guess the only real answer is to strip out the silicone and renew it
and scrape out the grout where it is affected and regrout and wipe the
surfaces down each time it is used .

If you do regrout, a tiler who did some work for me recommended SealGuard
spray to apply as soon as the grout's in. Supposed to be better than
Lithofin, which is the other main contender.

Can't comment yet on the effectiveness, as it's not had the test of time but
it's something to consider.

Cheers
Tim

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Tim Watts

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Usenet Nutter wrote:
I have tried everything to get rid of this around the shower /bath
particularly on the silicone round the bath .I have tried bleach which
did nothing ,Screwfix's No-Nonsense mould spray which again did
nothing .I got the other day Lakelands Mould Remover which you leave
on for 2 periods of 30 minutes .What it has done has taken away the
blackness and lightened it to a sort of pale putty colour which
doesn't look so obvious .

Was that the H&G stuff? Thats the best I've used no question.


I guess the only real answer is to strip out the silicone and renew it
and scrape out the grout where it is affected and regrout and wipe the
surfaces down each time it is used .

You can get silicones with mould resistand properties these days, don't know
how good they are mind.


--
Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 12:39:11 GMT, "The Medway Handyman"
wrote:

Usenet Nutter wrote:
I have tried everything to get rid of this around the shower /bath
particularly on the silicone round the bath .I have tried bleach which
did nothing ,Screwfix's No-Nonsense mould spray which again did
nothing .I got the other day Lakelands Mould Remover which you leave
on for 2 periods of 30 minutes .What it has done has taken away the
blackness and lightened it to a sort of pale putty colour which
doesn't look so obvious .

Was that the H&G stuff? Thats the best I've used no question.


Yes ,that's the stuff.

You can get silicones with mould resistant properties these days, don't know
how good they are mind.

Don't just about them all claim to be that ..lol