Re: Why not bleach?
I learned today that the very best way to salvage molded wood is to blast it with baking powder! It cleans the wood without damaging it, and everything, including the mold, gets vacuumed up as the cleaning goes. Bleach can bleach the color of the mold, while still leaving the dead spores behind, so not only does the bleach cause damage to the material under the mold, but it also hides the dead mold that can still cause allergic and other toxic reactions. (This Old House just did an article on Katrina restoration, and that's where I learned all this new stuff.)
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