I know a lot of you make your own cleaners, so this will probably not be for you, but I love this stuff!!
I have had a problem keeping my upstairs tub clean since we bought the house-the tub is minimum 45 years old and has little finish left on it. I keep getting mildew on the grout and all the comet/ajax/ scrubbing bubbles in the world won't keep it clean-it looks spotless, someone showers and the spots are back:bang:
I tried this, the fumes are horrible, but I sprayed, left, 20 minutes later wiped down with a scrubber sponge and its beautiful. I've been doing the same for the past two weeks, just 2-3xs per week, and the stains aren't coming back!!!! I never thought I would be excited over something like this, but I was spending so much time and energy trying to keep this tub clean, this is literally saving me an hour a week of work.:)

Kelly this is just what I need, I am planning a fling in the bathroom soon. I have mildew as well and usually just pour or spray a clorox solution and then leave the house for a few hours. I will definately be trying this.

Kelly,

I agree with you...this Lysol Mildew spray is tough stuff.

It cleans my sinks, tub, shower, toliet & anything else that gets in the way! lol

I have not found anything better!

It does smell pretty bad...just spray a little & leave the room...then go back & rinse good...it will Sparkle. :D

Can I make a suggestion?

I had a really bad mildew condition in my full bathroom. Finally a few years ago my DH & I did this.
WE took everything out of the bathroom.
Throw out the shower curtain and rings .. they are cheap buy new clean ones.
Scrubbed down everything, tile, grout, tub, sink, toilet, woodwork.
Dont forget the shower curtain rod and where it meets the walls.
OPEN THE WINDOWS!
Then with bleach scubbed down the walls and floor. We applied bleach to any mildew on the ceiling and put bleach in a spray bottle (wear googles & face mask)(crummy clothes too!) and sprayed the ceiling and all along where the walls and ceilings meet.

Then when it was all dry...

We painted the walls and ceiling with white mildew repellent paint.
It can be found in any paint store. Just ask.
Its a little expensive, but believe me it saved us in the long run with the amount of money spent in cleaning products and time spent cleaning that terrible mess.
And it really does cut down on the rest of the mildew.

But the key is that you really must really get all of it cleaned up first, cause it just loves to grow and grow.

We repaint it every year or two and it really does work!
The paint can also be tinted for what ever color your room is.
We just felt the first coat was easier as white to do the ceiling and walls in one fell swoop!
This was money well spent.

We even use it on the molding, windows and base board heat registers.

Give it a try.. Im glad we did!

Ellen

Good suggestions all! I like Lysol products too.

Dh and I were fighting a long time battle with mildew coming out from behind the wall around the tub, down where the plastic walls met the rim of the tub.

It was a long standing leak due to rusty tub corners, and improperly applied gyproc behind.

We ripped the old tub, the old surround and the old gyproc out.

The mold was just getting started on the joists behind. I sprinkled Tea Tree oil on them and let them dry thoroughly. Tea tree oil kills mildew nicely too.

New everything-- tub, walls, a bubble ceiling over the tub, rod and curtain, and I'm planning to get some of that mildew resistent paint in there. Used it before and it really works.

Mildew is more than a bad smell, it's a bit of a health hazard specially if you are allergic to it.

Good to have lots of weapons in the arsenal against it.

Ohhhhhhhh!
All new!!!
Gosh how I would love that!
What color tile and creamics did you get, Margerey?


Ellen

Humm, I will have to try the spray. I can never seem to keep the mold around the grout in the tub gone. The only thing so far I have found to work is Chlorine. It got it spotless. Will have to try Lysol though.

We have a porcelin coated tub and tiles in the bathroom that is white. HTe grout though for us is the problem. OF course it does not help that the guys that put it in, screwed it all up.

Hi Ellen, all white with silver chrome, and sharp green and sapphire blue accents. I didn't get tile (hate grout upkeep) so we went with a fiberglas tub and surround with a bubble dome top that you put a shower proof light fixture.

I bought a cheap white plastic shower curtain with cheap white plastic hooks (no more glass shower doors, no more cleaning the trackless tracks which were better than the old style tracks but still had places for mold and mildew to flourish up in the runner guides)

Our walls will eventually be that classic, white! Mildew proof paint.

(I think some of you may sense a theme here. You can take the nurse out of the hospital but you can't take the hospital love of whites out of the nurse!):toothy:

I have royal blue almost navy but more a sapphire blue, half way between royal and navy towels.

Silver chrome fixtures.

Eventually we will replace the bone colour toilet with a white water saver, the sink and cabinet and countertop with a white cabinet with deep drawers rather than so much cupboards and a white counter, white sink.

I want to have one or two really green houseplants in there, that I can rotate out near a good window to stay sharp blazing green. I plan to put them in a shiny chrome pot or else a sapphire blue ceramic pot.

Oh and the future floor, White again.:toothy:

NOTHING on the counter except hand lotion and soap.
Hand towels hung by the sink as before.

A couple of bath towel rods (dedicated to each person regularly using the space) opposite the tub on the big blank wall but far enough away to prevent

the dreaded drying of hands on the BIG BATH TOWEL!!!!

which is a no no in our house. It takes a lot of hand towels to fill up a wash load but only a few bath towels so I prefer to wash hand towels more often than bath towels all the time with dirty paw prints on them.

My family has yet to learn to keep the hands UNDER the tap long enough to banish the dirty grey droplets. This is my revenge!!!! THEY USE HAND TOWELS TO DRY OFF WITH!!!!

Bath towels are for bathing only.:D