ah hah, thank you. It sure didn't wash off. Okay, as long as it's dead with 3 washings of this 1/1 clorine solution. I'll go at it with the brush. Then I guess it's Kilz2. Thank you.
On Fri, 6 Feb 2009, Bob Kennedy wrote: > Kilz2 doesn't claim to kill mold, just cover it. You can read into that > whether covering will kill it or not. > > If you have sprayed with any of the chlorine solutions talked about, you will > still have to scrub with something to get it off the walls. The chlorine > will kill the mold but cement is very porous and mold will cling like glue. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Spiro > To: [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 11:57 PM > Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] now what is the last word on mold? > > > 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] > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > >
