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vthoms
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Jul 05, 2013

Washing our TT and gave our neighbours a giggle

I bought this scrub free cleaner with bleach to clean my refrigerator. I normally only use natural cleansers but bought this cleanser to clean the fridge after the door closed and a mess ensued and my natural cleaners didn't get it clean enough.

After I was done I looked at the front of my hybrid trailer it has those black mold dots. I had tried scrubbing them last year and I spent HOURS scrubbing at them and they were really hard to get off.

The cleaner worked on the mold in the fridge why not the mold on the bunk end? So I tried spraying it and was amazed by with a quick squirt of the spray the black dots completely disappeared. The black mold spots were worse at the top on the edge of the roof, so first I got my little two step ladder then grabbed our 6 foot ladder to get closer to the top.

As I'm spraying and wiping the spots with a cloth and the mold is literally disappearing in front of my eyes, I'm feeling pretty cocky, whoo hoo look at me I am a cleaning machine, this is taking minutes, no more HOURS spent scrubbing HA HA. So I try reaching a little further and the bleeping ladder starts to tip, I rocked it back and I almost caught myself but ended up falling off the third step, tipping the ladder over anyways and sprawled on the driveway and covered in gross dirty bleach water. I wasn't hurt other than a couple minor bruises so I was very lucky. I had to laugh, Man I wish someone had video taped it, it would have been hilarious.

My trailer now has a widows peak of moldy dots in the center where I couldn't get at it to clean it, I'm not going to attempt the ladder again, the hitch and propane tanks just get in the way but I think I will just use a mop and stay on the ground next time. But right now the widows peak just makes me laugh every time I look at it so I'll leave it for now.

Like they say if you can't be a good example be a terrible warning, and if your going to do the same thing get your neighbours to video tape you while your doing it.
  • I did watch my neighbor do something like that one time. He was OK though, he fell on his dignity but only bruised it a little.
  • Thanks for the tip on the cleaner. I would take the fall as message from divine intervention to stay off ladders.
  • Vthoms - wait 'til you see how those clothes look when they come out of the wash :-( I had used a mold-cleaning spray on our pontoon boat - as you remarked, it cleaned it fast and easily. Then the clothes I wore that day, came out of the wash with huge bleached spots on them....
  • I don't know exactly what mildew remover the guy across the cul-de-sac was using, but he disolved his awning last Spring.

    When I see him, I'll ask!