can anyone get a look at it to see if it will kill mold on cement? I'm not yet hitting this with a wire brush, but the spray bottle isn't making the spot any smaller. So I have these two options left. I hope the Kilz2 works on cement. So anything not ripped by the wire brush won't have a chance.
On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Bob Kennedy wrote: > Kilz2 will cover mold on wood. Don't know if it will work on cement or not. > Never had the label read to me beyond the wood part. > > The best way to kill mold is just mix good old Clorox and water at a strong > rate. Since it was pretty bad I'd use something like 3 cups water to a cup > of Clorox. This will burn your nose so be careful. If mold is thick on the > walls, get a scrub brush for carpet or tile and between sprays work on the > mold with the brush. Then spray again. > > Don't worry, you'll never spray too heavily with mold. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Spiro > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 2:38 AM > Subject: [BlindHandyMan] now what is the last word on mold? > > > I've written about the basement water. > It was ground water. No supply pipe there at all. > We dug with a back hoe down to 8ft, and found more and more big rocks > which were glued together with mud. Dirt sat atop them and sifted down > between them in the 50 years since the place was built. > So we sealed, and tar'd the wall and started filling with gravel. A cement > deck was poured, and at about 6ft, a sump basin and well was set. A french > drain was placed to let water run into the basin and more stone was poured > around that. dirt was poured in from about 3 ft deep and the pumps outlet > is running donwhill to a storm gutter 20 ft away. > Seems rain and ground water were meeting where the old french drain could > no longer allow freedom. > So, after about a year of this, I've removed the wet wood, and have > exposed 6,4 by 3ft of cement wall behind the knotty pine pannels. > I have gray to black marks on the cement from about 1ft high down to about > 4 inches high for about 3 ft of wall. > I've sprayed it with the spray the plumber left me. I don't know if it's > invalid mold now; but I've since sprayed it with glass and tile cleaner in > a 1 to 1 concentrate from a 5 to 1 bottle. > Did I hear somewhere that the magic primer *Kilz* will put a complete end > to mold? > If not, what will, and trust me, I need do it before I place anything in > that hole. I'll wait till summer if I must. > So what is the final answer in ultimately finishing this mold? > Thanks > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > >
