Than to process walls from a mold and a mold?

It is quite common and unpleasant phenomenon to form fungus and mold on walls, especially, that even in the cleanest and freshest room for 1 m3 there are about 5000 fungal spores. Completely get rid of this problem is almost impossible, but there are many ways, how and what to treat the walls from fungus and mold.

Important! Fungus gives the walls a poorly maintained appearance, gradually destroys the materials. Soon on the walls there are spots of yellow, black and green, in the room there will be an unpleasant, rotten smell. To stop the spread of mold in the future is simply necessary in order to prevent the destruction of materials and protect the health of you and your family.

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Kinds of fungi

There are four kinds of fungi, each of them is different and harmful in its own way. To understand what should be the treatment of walls in the apartment from the fungus and mold, you first need to understand what kind of harmful organisms you have got.

The options can be as follows.

Mold Common

Such colonies grow on stones, concrete and wallpaper. Initially, it appears as small dots of gray, black, blue or brown colors. Soon the points are transformed into spots of huge sizes. Sometimes mold can be seen in the form of luminous colonies of harmful microorganisms.

Important! If you run the problem, the fungus will roost the building materials almost all along their depth.

Blue fungus

Expands on a woody surface in the form of a plaque of gray or blue. The danger of blue is that it significantly increases the humidity of the tree, which soon leads to its destruction. Also, increased humidity becomes a favorable environment for the formation of entire blue fungus colonies.

Important! Most often he suffers from pine .

Decay fungus

This species of white and brown colonies also appears only on wood. When it appears, the walls become gray, the material decomposes from within and loses its strength. There are several types of this rot:

1. White rot - when it appears, the color of the tree is practically unchanged.
2. With the formation of brown rot, yellow, brown and black stripes appear.

As a result of occurrence of such phenomena, the tree starts to bump up and split.

Important! White house mushroom is the most terrible enemy of any wooden floor. For a month, it can completely ruin the wooden parquet with boards with a thickness of 40 mm. Earlier, in case of infection with this mold, the houses were simply burned, so as not to infect neighboring ones.

Highs

Also very harmful can be called high. They apply to bricks and concrete. This fungus appears as a white salt spray. Over time, it also penetrates deep into the materials and destroys them.

And now carefully take a closer look at the mold formed on your wall. Given the above facts, determine which fungus broke into your house. It is on its type and it depends what kind of treatment of walls in the apartment from the fungus and mold.

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Harm to the mold for the body

The fact that the fungus causes tremendous harm to the body - very few people know. This fact has been repeatedly confirmed by doctors and scientists. But sometimes people, when a fungus appears, ignore the problem or, first of all, take care of building materials and walls. And that, and that option is fundamentally wrong.

Here is just a small list of diseases that can occur with the appearance of the fungus:

• Tuberculosis;
• Arthritis;
• Stomatitis;
• Thrush;
• Dermatitis;
• Bronchitis;
• Laryngitis;
• Pneumonia;
• Rheumatism;
• Eczema;
• Bronchial asthma;
• Allergy;
• Conjunctivitis.

Important! Moreover, if you do not decide in time how to treat walls from fungus and mold to get rid of them, you can get constant bleeding from the nose, nausea, headaches and dizziness. Particularly beware of black mold, in consequence of which pulmonary aspergillosis may occur. The disease is not the most pleasant, the outcome of which can be lethal. In a special risk group, pregnant women, children, the elderly, people with weak immunity.

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Causes of mold and fungus on the walls

Fungus does not appear anywhere. There are many reasons for its occurrence, knowledge of which will help you in the future to prevent the problem:

• During the repair, you used materials that have high humidity.
• Poor foundation waterproofing.
• Problems with heating the house, uneven heating of rooms.
• Poor waterproofing of inter-panel joints.
• Poor room ventilation, which can be disturbed by improper installation of plastic windows and doors.
• Frequent washing and insufficient ventilation.
• A large number of plants in the room.
• Thin walls that let the cold pass in winter.
• Insufficient heating or no heating at all.

Important! Regardless of what you decide to process the walls from fungus and mold, eliminate the main problem. Otherwise, it will again become a source of pathogenic bacteria.

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Get rid of fungus and mold

Most of the fungus can be noticed in places of high humidity with poor ventilation. It is from the scale of the problem that it will depend on how the walls from mold and fungus will be treated.

Mold in the bathroom

Such a place you can safely call the bathroom. If the fungus has only just begun to appear, it will be enough just to equalize the intake of air and the temperature in the room. To do this, it will be necessary not to close the door tightly, and if possible, install a fan. When all measures are taken, it is just to clean the fungus from the walls.

Mold in the living room

If the mold appeared in the room, it is likely that the so-called cold bridges became the cause. Eliminate this problem can be through the insulation of facades. If the mold has occupied a small area, then it can also be easily removed.

Mold on the balcony

On the balcony, a fungus can form due to poor waterproofing. If you want to remove the fungus, then you must do antiseptic treatment. For this you will need:

• Sandpaper;
• Spatula;
• Brush;
• Blade for removing plaster.

The following actions should be as follows:

1. First remove all the wallpaper, determine the location of the defeat. Use a spatula to remove plaster contaminated with the fungus( it should be soft).

Important! As soon as possible, you need to remove the infected wallpaper, plaster from the premises, so that the pores of fungi do not scatter over the rest of the walls.

1. Use sandpaper to thoroughly clean off any remaining plaster.
2. The entire wall, and especially the infected areas, must be gently treated with antiseptic to protect against mold.
3. Repeat treatment after 5-8 minutes.
4. After the walls have dried, a primer is applied. Next, the walls are plastered and shpaklyuyutsya.
5. The final finishing of the walls should be quality materials, so as not to provoke the re-occurrence of the problem.

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Wall and wall treatments for mold and mold

Nowadays there are a lot of tools for treating walls from mold and fungus. It is important not to be mistaken, but to use exactly that which will suit specifically your type of fungus. The way to determine its type was written earlier.

Important! The problem is that the funds for one type of fungus can be absolutely inactive for another, and sometimes accompany its reproduction. Therefore, when buying an antiseptic, very carefully read the instructions.

Now you can buy quite a lot of money, which is very different. There are those that you can buy ready-made and those that need to be prepared immediately before use.

Here are examples of sufficiently effective and at the same time available antiseptic agents for treating walls from fungus and mold:

• "Xiolate".The remedy can be called one of the best. The drug not only penetrates the epicenter of infection of the fungus, but also in the building materials themselves( wood, concrete), thereby simply disarming the mold.
• "Teflex".Also, an effective remedy that will cope without problems with any kind of fungus. It is famous for its ecological compatibility and safety for people and animals.
• "Antisept".When processing this tool will return the previous view of the walls, gypsum, cement plaster penetrates.
• "Filasmuffi".This spray will easily remove all mold from the wallpaper, brick, concrete.

Folk remedies

Depending on personal preferences and financial possibilities, you can use not the industrial chemistry, but the folk remedies, whose validity is checked not even for years, but for centuries. These include:

• For 10 liters of water you need to take 0.9 kg of borax + 1.4 liters of vinegar.
• For 10 liters of water - 0.5 kg of copper vitriol + 2 l of acetic essence.
• To 10 liters of water, add 1.5 kg of sodium chloride and 0.5 copper + iron vitriol.

All these mixtures will need to be heated to 60 degrees, applied to the places where the fungus appeared. In a month it is necessary to repeat the procedure.

If you use the above rules and advice, the fungus and mold will remain in your past. But most importantly - remember that the most important enemy of the fungus is fresh air and sun. So as often as possible, ventilate the room, watch for humidity - then the mold will never bother you.