Mold - a scourge not only of raw cellars and untrodden abandoned apartments, this trouble affects completely respectable houses, where docile and diligent housewives dwell. This leads to favorable conditions for the fungus - low-power heating uneven warms the house, poor ventilation of housing and increased humidity. By the way, in addition to the unsightly appearance of the walls affected by mold, there are also hidden dangers - spores can affect the lungs, causing severe allergies and even infections.
Fighting the fungus on the walls in the apartment
Some do not expel mold by some kind of action, you will need a set of works:
- Eliminate the cause of high humidity . Frequent watering of plants causes evaporation, which settles on cold walls in the form of droplets. Perhaps you should limit the number of flower pots in your apartment. Cooking in the apartment, hand washing, a large aquarium - a good source of moisture, settling in joints, crevices or on slopes. Regular airing of the room is a good prevention. In the case, how to deal with the fungus on your walls, helps to install a quality strong hood in the kitchen. In winter, provide heat access to the windows from the batteries. In problem areas, remove bulky furniture from the adjacent wall, providing ventilation.
- Remedy for the fungus on the walls . If the dark spots have already hit the wallpaper, then you will have to work on mold with all sorts of chemical preparations. We struggle with living organisms, so use antiseptics, turpentine and solvents. The most accessible are "Whiteness" or imported "Domestos". From folk methods, try using turpentine, copper sulfate, liquids based on White Spirit.
- A radical way to fight the fungus . Alas, but I'll have to take off the wallpaper to dry the surface properly. How to fight if a black fungus on the walls hit a large area? Cosmetic measures will be ineffective here. For faster drying, we use a building hair dryer. Friable plaster scraping. We process the wall with some high-quality impregnation with additives from the fungus - Neomid Bio, Nortex-lux, BioDector or others. After this, primer, waterproofing mixture is applied and one more priming is made with the compositions of deep penetration. Only then do the plaster and glue the wallpaper.