Mold can thrive in any environment that has moisture, food and darkness. That is why you may find it in bathrooms and basements. Mold spreads by releasing spores into the air that land and grow into more mold and release more and more spores. The spores can be dangerous for you and your family and some can even cause severe breathing problems. If you find mold in your home, you need to kill it as which as possible.
To kill mold, you must first protect yourself. Make sure that you use a respirator or a filter mask. Next, spray the mold with a mixture of white vinegar and water. A fifty-fifty mix in a spray bottle will work just fine. You simply want to wet down the entire mold population that you are going to kill, to stop it from releasing its spores. Next scrub the area with pure white vinegar and a stiff scrubber. I know that the vinegar has a strong smell, but it will dissipate in a day or so.
Now that you have killed the current mold population, you need to make sure that it isn't just going to come back. Install high-efficiency lights in the area that you can keep on at all time. A compact fluorescent or the new multi-bulb super LED bulbs will work great and not cost you much to keep on all year. You also need to remove the moisture. If you have found the mold in a bathroom, install a ceiling exhaust fan to suck out all of the wet air.
If the mold colony is in your basement, you need to seal the water out. This may involve painting walls with a moisture barrier and installing a sump pump. Finding out where the moisture is coming from is the key to stopping it. I was able to keep most of the water out of my basement by installing new gutters and drain pipes!
If you have found mold growing on dry-wall, you may need to remove the dry-wall in its entirety. The mold may have penetrated the dry-wall and killing it on the surface will only keep it away for a short period of time. This is expensive when it happens, but replacing the dry-wall with moisture resistant dry-wall will make sure that you never have to deal with it again.
If you suspect that you have Black Mold, call in the professionals. Black Mold is extremely dangerous and by attempting to clean it up yourself, you may be exposing your family to a real danger.
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