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So, I pulled out the baby bouncer to get it ready for bubs number 2 only to discover that when I asked DH to wrap it up and store it he took that to mean just chuck it in the outside shower (which we don't use but it has a leak in the roof so in damp)! Anyway now it is of course covered in mould. It wasn't an expensive bouncer but I didn't really want to have to buy a new one. Is there anyway to get mould out of the fabric?
I think i heard vinegar? There are probably some products you can buy specifically for mould. I think the biggest thing will be making sure you get it all because it can make you very sick, cold like and breathing problems.
Yeah I really am tempted just to throw it out (and normally I would have already) but I thought I would attempt a salvage if someone knew a magical cure :-)
Vinegar and sunshine
or oil of cloves
I don't think anything but bleach will rid the actual stain, but the top two suggestions will kill the actual mould spurs
I used Milton Solution to get mould out of a baby rocker after a couple of washes and strong sunshine to fade, which didn't really help. I made a paste out of the tablets with water and them soaked it for a few hrs and put it in the normal wash then in the sunshine. From memory, I did this twice. It did bleach a bit of the back on the rocker which is a dark blue colour.
I might be being too careful here but given that bub would actually be sitting/lying in bouncer and really close to any spores that anything you use didn't kill i'd probably err on the side of caution and just get a new one. Depending on what type you get they don't have to be that expensive. If you did want to try however from what i understand oil of cloves if supposes to do the trick.
1 Litre of hot water. Add 1 KG of salt and mix well. Spray this solution onto the bouncer and leave to dry completely. The salt will form a crust. Brush off the crust and the mould should come off. Then add a few drops of oil of cloves to 1 litre of water. Spray the bouncer with this.
You may need to do this a couple of times.
Thanks everyone. I'll give it a go and see what happens.
I've used this technique myself and it WORKS!:
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Been filtering through a lot of old threads in this section, regarding mould.
The Man recently got out our three wheeled pram and extra seat. I had taken off one of the covers and newborn head surrounds before it was packed, and they are packed in a box, hopefully in the house. Somewhere. So their condition is unknown at the moment (even though I did wash them before packing). The rest of the pram, soft covers, extra seat, etc, have black mouldy spots on them.
I have dismantled what I can from the pram (which isn't really as much as I hoped to), and its soaking in the washing machine with napisan and oil of cloves. I've given it lots of agitation, etc, but the spots aren't coming off (as I suspected they probably wouldn't). I will probably clean the rest of the pram and bits with oil of cloves and hot water, and leave it in our scorching sun. And repeat a few times I guess.
Thoughts on using this pram again? I can't really afford to get a new pram for a newborn.
Thanks.
How did it work out Netix?