Its been a long time since I have felt the urge to fret over mold. Most of the worry passed with the muggy summer weather. Fall has been lovely and considerably less damp. Winter, however, is now setting in and bringing with it cold winds and rooms covered in condensation in the morning.
Pop quiz:
Let's say you were to go to flip your futon over one morning and upon flipping it over found a dark spot in the middle. Upon further investigation you discovered that the good side of your futon had a spreading infestation of mildew and the bad side of your futon was turning colors.
Would you:
A: Put the $60 futon out in the sun for the day, wash the sheets and pretend you didn't see anything.
B: Buy a $90 futon dryer, dry the $60 futon, wash the sheets and pretend you didn't see anything.
C: Consult a professional cleaner in the hopes that someday in the near future you can drag your oversided futon to their shop and have it cleaned for $20.
D: Buy a disposal tag for your ruined bedding and go out to buy a new $60 futon.
E: Get full use out of your super deep bathtub and give your bedding a bleach bath. Rinse and hang outside for a few days until it is dry enough to bring in the house, use your new $90 futon dryer on it and ignore any remaining spots (they're just stains, right??)
Russell and I are still working on this logic problem. Russell is all geared up for E. I'm prepared to follow up with D when the inevitable hilarity ensues.
Wish us luck.
Sunday 13 December 2009
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
2 comments:
During the daytime where do you keep your futons. My wife puts them on a raised wooden slat thing (she got at izumiya) keeps them off the floor and air circulating underneath them. it was cheap.
we use a bed, but have a few futons for when company come over. the only time the futons are on the floor is when someone is sleeping on them!
Hope the mold thing goes away asap!
Thanks for the advice.
We need a wooden slat thing. We use a double size futon, so it is a little inconvenient size-wise and there is no closet in the bedroom to stash it away in. While the large futon has been undergoing mold treatment, we have been using our smaller guest futons. Those we are being more careful with. We get them off the floor every day (roosted on mesh baskets from Ikea).
We have also been using a desiccant sheet under the futons lately. That has actually been working wonders. Apparently they turn pink when they are saturated so you know to hang them outside and let them dry out (we haven't reached that stage yet). I had avoided them before because I didn't think they were reusable. So far the futons have only been damp at the end where the sheet doesn't extend.
Post a Comment