Hi fellow Hiveians,
Today I had to act quickly to make sure the awesome wood we just bought didn’t get messed up!
A few weeks ago we bought this amazing wood from a local lumber mill and we’re really excited about what we are going to use it for! It was very wet when we picked up since it was just sitting outside and it’s been raining and snowing a fair amount lately so we weren’t shocked when we saw it was as wet as it was.
What we weren’t expecting was that it would start to produce mold! My wife is allergic to mold so we have to be careful around it, we don’t want to get her sick. Thankfully it’s in an unused room while it’s drying but I thankfully had checked on it and I saw it starting to grow! I wasn’t sure what it was until I saw the fuzzy look to it in one spot and the black in another and thought well shit. What do I do? Thankfully some internet searches led me to not despair!
There were a fair amount of spots that had mold on them so I was thankfully able to spot them all and work to get it all removed.
This one was the worst one, it got to the level of being black mold. Glad I saw it before my wife did or she would have had my throw them in the woods lol.
I was a little nervous when I was looking up how to remove the mold but it turns out the easiest way to remove it is not with bleach, that’s far too strong for our needs and it could ruin the wood permanently. What works? Good old fashioned warm water and soap! The important thing is to use paper towels.
When you are using paper towels you just soak them a bit so they are wet then add the soap onto it and gently pad the wood where the mold is. At first I would dab it then throw it away. That was more wasteful then the already badly wasteful process so I would dab it, fold it and dab it again so I was able to get two dabs out of each square. Still got some good results I think. Took me about an hour to work through each of the pieces of wood to make sure there was no mold. I still have the biggest piece left but all of the others were resting on it so I don’t think another day or two will hurt.
I don’t know if this is actually what it is but I saw these brown-ish spots each time I dabbed so I think it was pulling up the mold. I’ll know more in two days when I’ll check it again, I’m hoping it should be gone or I would at least only need to do it once more to get rid of it. It wasn’t a very bad amount of mold thankfully.
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