What is the best way to remove pink mold from a tile shower stall?
Bleach may remove the stain of mold but it will NOT kill it and keep it from coming back quickly. Try this to actually kill mold anywhere. It really works and is what tile installers and many contractors use. It’s recommended in areas where they have had flooding and severe mold outbreaks. Fill a spray bottle with the following in it: 1/2 gal. white vinegar 1/2 gal. hydrogen peroxide-common peroxide available from your drugstore 1 cup boric acid Keep closed tightly mix well – use in a spray bottle on a dry surface. Shake well and spray area well. The vinegar/peroxide kills active live mold and the boric acid keeps them that way. (Note: uncapped peroxide loses it’s oxygen molecules to the air when not capped tight and becomes H2O [water], so keep this solution in a bottle that can be capped off tight). Boric acid works on mold bodies like it does on roach bodies – cuts them and they bleed to death because they cannot “coagulate”.
Spray straight bleach onto the surface, saturate it well, and let stand for about 10 minutes. Then rinse with boiling water. I fill my tea kettle all the way and boil the water, then take it straight to the shower and drench it. The boiling water gets into the microscopic crevices of the tiles, porcelain, etc. where mold spores hide out of the reach of most household cleaners. This method usually keeps the mold from coming back as soon.
I hate that pink stuff too, it really clashes with my avocado green and harvest gold decor. I dunno as there is a specific ‘best’ way, a ‘non-best’ way would involve abrasives or scrapers that would scratch the grout or even tile causing all kinds of lil gouges and nooks and crannies for more mold to grow. There are all kinds of commercial products available but most of them are just variations of a simple and much less expensive formula you can make at home.( This formula works on other colors of mold too, its not prejudiced.) Mix one cup regular house hold bleach (Clorox) with one gallon of water, or 1/4 cup to a quart, a ratio of about 16 to one. The addition of a tablespoon or so of detergent helps the solution soak in and stay wet a bit longer. CAUTION DANGER BEWARE LOOK OUT ! Do NOT add any detergent or anything else containing ammonia! Mixing ammonia and bleach releases chlorine gas. Which, in an extreme case, could kill you flat out dead. ( But didn’t she leave a lovely corpse,
