How TO Fight Mold With peroxide

does peroxide kill mold

Mold often appear in bathrooms or garage can be harmful to humans and animals. This practical tip shows you how you can fight mold with hydrogen peroxide without taking any risks.

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Why hydrogen peroxide to fight mold?

With a small mold infestation, you can take matters into your own hands and fight them with the right means. In the case of large infestations, the help of a professional is necessary.

Hydrogen peroxide, also H202, is normally used in medicine as a disinfectant or bleach. It disintegrates when used in water and free oxygen.

You can purchase a three percent solution in pharmacies and drug stores. There is also 70 and 80 percent alcohol or isopropanol, which also helps against mold.

Hydrogen peroxide has an oxidizing effect on the mold. The affected areas are disinfected by destroying the fungal cells. With black mold, it also works as a bleaching agent, which results in an improvement in the colored residues.

Safety instructions: 

H202 is not flammable, however, you must wear a face mask and acid protection gloves when using it. The agent can damage your upper layers of skin if you do not protect yourself enough.


Use of hydrogen peroxide

If you want to use hydrogen peroxide against mold, there are a few things you should definitely keep in mind so as not to endanger yourself.

  1. Close the doors to other rooms and open the windows in the infested room.
  2. Use a painter's PE film to cover your furniture and carpets.
  3. Make sure to ventilate the mold spores outside.
  4. Wear gloves and face mask all the time to avoid putting yourself in danger.
  5. Wet your wallpaper or water-soluble paint and remove it from the wall. Dispose of the wallpaper or used cloths over sealed plastic bags in the household waste.
  6. Now coat the surface with the hydrogen peroxide solution in a radius of at least 50 centimeters around the affected area. Use a wide, soft brush.
  7. After about an hour, wipe the treated area with a damp cloth. Now wait until the area is dry.
  8. In the meantime, carefully dispose of the cover film in the household waste.
  9. After the area has dried, paint the wall with lime or silicate paint. Do not use glue-based paints or new wallpaper.
  10. Finally, wipe your furniture with a damp cloth and wash all the fabrics that are in the room.

Peroxides are a group of compounds with the structure R−O−O−R.[1] The O−O group in a peroxide is called the peroxide group or peroxo group. In contrast to oxide ions, the oxygen atoms in the peroxide ion have an oxidation state of −1.

The most common peroxide is hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), colloquially known simply as "peroxide". It is marketed as a solution in water at various concentrations. Since hydrogen peroxide is nearly colorless, so are these solutions. It is mainly used as an oxidant and bleaching agent. However, hydrogen peroxide is also biochemically produced in the human body, largely as a result of a range of oxidase enzymes.[2] Concentrated solutions are potentially dangerous when in contact with organic compounds.