See how Wet & Forget Indoor Beats Bleach and Defeats Mold and Mildew!
Mold and mildew can make a disgusting and smelly mess out of your bathroom, basement, or kitchen. That’s why it’s important to find a solution that defeats mold and mildew before it truly takes over your home.
Although bleach instantly “cleans up” the black stains, it’s actually prolonging the problem. Moreover, it can cause damage to the surface you’re trying to clean.
Instead of trying various bleach-based cleaners, try Wet & Forget Indoor Mold + Mildew Disinfectant Cleaner.
It eliminates as well as inhibits mold and mildew re-growth. Plus, Wet & Forget Indoor can be used to help disinfect and deodorize your home too.
Read on to see how Wet & Forget Indoor beats bleach at its game and defeats mold and mildew for good!
Mold and Mildew: a Musty Menace
Mold and mildew can grow on any surface in your home where there is sufficient moisture. Sneaky mold spores float through the air and begin to grow as soon as they land on a moist surface. It’s no secret, mold loves moisture.
it’s most common in damp areas such as your basement, laundry room, bathroom, or areas with poor air circulation.
Mold not only looks bad–it can also leave indelible stains, and even digest certain materials and cause permanent damage. Mold also creates that characteristic musty odor that can spread throughout your home.
It can even soak into your furniture and clothing. Mold and mildew growth can become a health issue for your family by contributing to conditions like asthma and allergies.
Why Bleach isn’t the Solution for defeating Mold and Mildew
Bleach used to be the go-to cleaner for mold and mildew back in the old days. But, you will run into some problems reaching for the bleach bottle to solve your mold problem. Here’s why:
- It’s harsh. Bleach has a pH of about 12 on a scale of 0-14, which makes it pretty caustic. Bleach will ruin your clothes if you accidentally splash any on them. It can also harm some of the surfaces you are trying to clean. Sometimes the damage is obvious right away, and sometimes it happens gradually. It also shortens the lifespan of the very item you’re trying to take good care of.
- It’s a messy hassle. When you’re trying to use bleach to clean up mold and mildew, you wind up having to find a container to dilute the bleach in, and then either pouring it directly onto the mold and mildew or wiping it on with a rag. During this process, you risk splashing bleach on your clothes or other things. Then you have to scrub, which is a big hassle. After all this, you have to rinse the bleach away. This leaves a wet mess behind, which you then have to figure out how to dry up.
- It doesn’t stop mold and mildew from growing back. Not only does bleach lack any ingredients that would stop mold and mildew from growing back, but bleach is also mostly comprised of water. However, you also need to add even more water to bleach before using it to clean mold and mildew. And, to top it all off, you have to rinse the surface with water afterward. Using bleach to clean mold and mildew keeps you trapped in an endless, cleaning cycle.
- It’s smelly. When you clean up mold and mildew with bleach, you replace mold’s musty odor with bleach’s acrid chemical stink. First, you have to deal with the eye-and-nose-stinging chemical odor while you’re cleaning, and then you and your family are left with the lingering unpleasant smell that takes days to dissipate.
- Why trade one stink for another?
- You don’t know how much to dilute it. Trying to dilute bleach can leave an uneasy feeling about its mixing ratio and thus effectiveness. Add too little water, and you risk destroying something. Add too much, and you risk leaving mold and mildew behind or even winding up with more mold and mildew than you started out with.
Wet & Forget Indoor to the Rescue!
Wet & Forget Indoor will beat bleach on every count, hands-down. Here’s why:
- It’s safe. Wet & Forget Indoor’s non-abrasive formula is safe to use on a wide variety of hard, non-porous surfaces*. Some of the surfaces where Wet & Forget Indoor gets the job done include: bathtubs, walls, finished woodwork, boats, glazed ceramic, plastic upholstery, and garbage cans. Click here to see more surfaces where you can use Wet & Forget Indoor!
- It’s cinch! Eliminating mold and mildew with Wet & Forget Indoor couldn’t be easier. Simply spray, wait ten minutes, and wipe.* Therefore, no mixing, no rinsing, no pouring, no scrubbing is needed.
- It inhibits mold and mildew re-growth. One of the worst things about mold and mildew is its stubborn ability to keep growing back as long as there is moisture available. Unlike bleach, Wet & Forget Indoor is specially formulated to inhibit mold and mildew re-growth.
- It smells clean and fresh. Wet & Forget Indoor kills the odor-causing bacteria that create that disgusting musty stench. This means you don’t have to punish your nose with a stinging chemical odor! After taking away mold’s nasty odor, Wet & Forget Indoor will leave behind a subtle, fresh, clean scent.
- No need to dilute it- Wet & Forget Indoor is ready to go! While bleach leaves you uncertain about how much water to add, Wet & Forget Indoor is ready for action right out of the box. Just attach the nozzle, and spray! Our award-winning high-efficiency sprayer defeats mold and mildew even easier.
Applying Wet & Forget Indoor
Here’s how Wet & Forget Indoor defeats mold and mildew-
- Spray weekly onto the hard, non-porous interior surface.
- Then let the product sit on the surface for at least 10 minutes.
- After 10 minutes, wipe the hard surface with a dry cloth or a sponge. This will agitate the decaying mold and mildew.
- Repeat treatment every 7 days or more often if new growth appears.
DISINFECTION, VIRUCIDAL*, MOLD & MILDEW CONTROL DIRECTIONS: Apply Wet & Forget® Indoor Mold + Mildew Disinfectant Cleaner undiluted to hard, non-porous surfaces, thoroughly wetting the surfaces with a cloth, mop, sponge, sprayer or by immersion. Treated surfaces must remain visibly wet for 10 minutes.
For SARS-CoV-2, treated surfaces must remain visibly wet for 3 minutes. For Influenza Virus Type A and Human Coronavirus, treated surfaces must remain visibly wet for 1 minute. Wipe dry with cloth, sponge, or mop or allow to air dry. For visibly soiled areas, a preliminary cleaning is required. For sprayer applications, use a coarse spray device. Spray 6-8 inches from surface. Avoid breathing spray. Rinse all surfaces that come in contact with food such as countertops, appliances, tables and stovetops with potable water before reuse. Do not use on utensils, glassware and dishes.
Wet & Forget Indoor Mold + Mildew Disinfectant Cleaner kills: Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Salmonella enterica, Serratia marcescens, *Human Coronavirus,*lnfluenza Virus Type A/ Hong Kong, *SARS Associated Coronavirus cause of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, *SARS-Related Coronavirus 2 SARS-CoV-2 cause of COVID-19, *Vaccinia (Pox Virus), *Norwalk Virus (Norovirus), * Rotavirus. †Proven soft surfaces sanitizer against Staphylococcus aureus and Enterobacter aerogenes.
*Rinse all surfaces that come in contact with food such as countertops, appliances, tables and stovetops with potable water before reuse. Do not use on utensils, glassware or dishes.
Photos courtesy of Karen Apricot.
Steve kerr
I like your deceptive advertising, using a photo of moldy sheet rock. Is w&f recommended for sheetrock? Every instruction only mentions non- porous surfaces
Wet and Forget
Hi Steve! Wet & Forget Indoor (not outdoor) is safe to use on sheetrock. It just may not remove staining caused by mold/mildew here.