Mold on things from a storage unit
Storage units often trap moisture that ruins stored belongings like fabric furniture and wooden frames with widespread mold growth. This leaves people overwhelmed by deciding what can be salvaged and terrified of bringing contaminated items back into their homes.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1attempting to clean and salvage affected items
- 2discarding moldy items entirely
- 3Throwing away the affected moldy baskets
- 4Throwing away nearby items just in case
- 5Cleaning everything in the affected area
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“nearly all of their things have mould on them and i’m wondering what the best way to tackle it would be? pls help 😭”source ↗
“I was trying to grab the battery charger and noticed something fuzzy. Then I pulled the basket and saw all that mold! How in the world did that happened?”source ↗
“I’m scared this might be a moisture issue in my rental but nothing else got mold.”source ↗
“I’m cleaning everything but now I’m scared of putting things in this tv stand now since the door closes it’s not an open one.”source ↗
“fabric furniture, wooden bed frames, a lot of kitchen utensils. i’m trying to tell them that most things will probably grow back and should get rid of it”source ↗
Where this came up
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