Black mould on your bathroom silicone

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We had a shower installed about five years ago. A tiled enclosure and a GRP shower tray. I don't know which silicone mastic the builder used to seal between the tiles and the tray, but it started going mouldy within a year. I cut as much as I could out with a sharp Stanley knife, and then the fragments with a scalpel before attacking the residue with Silicone Eater, an evil-smelling gunk. After cleaning the whole joint with water, meths etc, and drying it with a hair drier, I gunned in some re-assuringly expensive sanitary silicone. It might have been Dow-Corning's, I forget.

Two weeks ago, we noticed that the black spots had returned and seemed to be growing daily. I really didn't want to go through the whole process again so I thrashed around on Google. The general message was " You are doomed, mate....cut it out and start again"......but somebody posted a simpler solution......

All you have to do is squirt some thick Domestos bleach on the joint, and then press some twisted bits of kitchen roll into it. This keeps the bleach from leaking off the mastic. Press the paper into a mush and leave it there for an hour. If it looks a bit dry, squirt some more Domestos on to it.

I was sceptical about it.....it really does work! Not a trace of mould left.

 

[Keith Oates]

That's one to remember as I have a similar problem in the apartment I'm renting here in China !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[EltonFrog]

I used to work for a subsidiary of Dow Corning which had the licence to sell their silcone products here. We used to advise soaking cotton wool in bleach and leave it over night on the mould patch. So the same idea basically and yes it does work.

 

[slowmotion]

Turning kitchen roll into a bleach-soaked mush is rather like making mud-pies. I like it.

 

[Monsieur]

Sounds like a plan!
I'll get my wife to try this later today - thanks for the useful advice!

 

[summerdays]

Wonder if that approach will work with my teeth

Are they silicone? Remember to wash them before putting them back in after putting them in bleach

 

[TVC]

Domestos, scrubbed in with an old toothbrush, leave for half an hour and rinse.

 

[Aperitif]

Domestos, scrubbed in with an old toothbrush, leave for half an hour and rinse.

This is for Rocky's teeth then, TVC or can anyone try it?

 

[TVC]

This is for Rocky's teeth then, TVC or can anyone try it?

Sand blasting for Rocky's teeth I think.

 

[glenn forger]

Works with limescale too, wrap kitchen towel round the taps, pour white vinegar over, go down the pub for four hours and Hey Presto!

You're drunk.

 

[PK99]

HG mould spray, designed for the job, less aggressive than bleach. £5 a bottle, lasts forever. Spray, leave a few hours rinse off with shower head, also deals with the grout lines.

 

[Cyclopathic]

I'm sure Teflon must be the answer somehow.

 

[john59]

Dettol Mould & Mildew Remover works well.

John

 

[Andy_R]

Dettol Mould & Mildew Remover works well.

John

^^this

 

[Crackle]

Good tip I'll try it. I re-siliconed one bathroom recently and it's going mouldy again.