Date:         Wed, 25 Jun 2003 19:58:51 -0700
Reply-To:     Steve Young <sja_young@YAHOO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Steve Young <sja_young@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: moldy poptop cures?
Comments: To: Jeffrey Stangeland <haewolius@YAHOO.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <20030625225828.77771.qmail@web41013.mail.yahoo.com>
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Hi,

Do you mean the mold that can grow on the inside of a roof if the van wasn't properly aired? If so I'm just about to tackle the same problem. Haven't found any good answers yet. A visit to a local auto valet said he could get 40% of the mold off the inside of my roof. His recommendation was put a layer of new fabric over the top. This didn't sound like a healthy solution so I'm looking for something better. The canvas is off my van so I'm going to take off the roof this weekend and set about it with various cleaners and see what can be done.

So far I've heard that Ecover cream cleaner, rubbing alcohol and a TSP solution can all clean mold. One I might resort to if all else fails is:

1 gallon of water
1 tablespoon TSP
1 cup of bleach
4 tablespoons of Lye

Anything with TSP, Lye and or bleach would need to be treated with respect. Rubber gloves, eye protection, no kids, animals, etc. Add chemicals to water rather than vice versa.

I've no idea what impact these could have on my roof fabric so I'll test spot a small areas first. Lots of rinsing afterwards would be essential.

Any more info on mold cleaning would be great.

Steve



Jeffrey Stangeland <haewolius@YAHOO.COM> wrote:
hey all-

anybody have a solution for the mold beginning to creep into my poptop roof? mine's still pretty clean but i've seen some roofs when i was looking at vans and they can get pretty nasty looking...
peace,
jeff


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