How to get mold out of the carpet.
I found some mold on the carpet in front of the couch when I ran the off door slide out. I cleaned the bottom of the slide out with mold remover and then I vacuumed the carpet. That got rid of the bla...
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Pure Gyro Gearloose Experiment. It worked --- but
I have a nice carpet that I use to grab grit and dust from shoes and feet as I pass the entry door. Teak floor.
It got moldy when I had rolled it up for storage. Stored it on the patio under an overhang. Measures roughly 3 feet square.
I have plenty of tarps. Also a kiln fired ceramic bowl.
I heated most of a gallon of Clorox to the point of boiling. The fumes were deadly.
I poured the bleach into the "olla" then set the bowl in the center of the rug.
Placed the silver tarp over the bowl and out past the edges. Silver tarp, silver carpet, Quicksilver. I confess...
The next morning I uncovered the carpet. Black powder on the fibers. I whacked the carpet on one of the concrete columns patio roof support. I was wearing a ball cap, painter's mask and gloves.
Then I used spray-on carpet cleaner and a shop vac.
For some reason the mold did not attach itself to underneath the carpet. Lucky me.
If the danged carpet had not been silver I would have binned it. This is a lot of work to go through to clean it.
I have a nice carpet that I use to grab grit and dust from shoes and feet as I pass the entry door. Teak floor.
It got moldy when I had rolled it up for storage. Stored it on the patio under an overhang. Measures roughly 3 feet square.
I have plenty of tarps. Also a kiln fired ceramic bowl.
I heated most of a gallon of Clorox to the point of boiling. The fumes were deadly.
I poured the bleach into the "olla" then set the bowl in the center of the rug.
Placed the silver tarp over the bowl and out past the edges. Silver tarp, silver carpet, Quicksilver. I confess...
The next morning I uncovered the carpet. Black powder on the fibers. I whacked the carpet on one of the concrete columns patio roof support. I was wearing a ball cap, painter's mask and gloves.
Then I used spray-on carpet cleaner and a shop vac.
For some reason the mold did not attach itself to underneath the carpet. Lucky me.
If the danged carpet had not been silver I would have binned it. This is a lot of work to go through to clean it.
