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following on from my recent post a few days ago about the mould and mildrew removal, spent some time looking on the internet looking at the best way to kill and remove the mould. can only find out that you can kill it and not remove the stain and it gets deep into the material.

so then i'm on a major mission to find a product to remove the stain.

the tent went up last night and i tried every single cleaning product we had in the cupboard and nothing worked.

was in our stores at work today and saw a bottle of Hg Mould removal for bathrooms (worth a try)

came home from work and tried a small area..........BINGO ITS GONE!!!!!

tent is now going back up to treat the other areas if it does not discolour the material

Quote: Originally posted by daveslisa on 02/9/2011

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I hate to be the bearer of bad news but you may have to reproof your tent now.....hopefully not but depending on what cleaning products you used it may have damaged the waterproofing......only way to find out is to see if it leaks in the rain!

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i was going to reproof the tent aswell which is what i've done. it probaly did need it after the mould remover was used.

Hi Gareth + Sam.

I'm tempted to get some of that HG Mould remover myself as we have a similar problem with mildew spots on the roof of our Nevada M and the front mesh inner door.

Did you also use a Milton/Bleach solution to kill the mildew first, as recommended elsewhere on here or just the HG stuff ? Also was it on the inside or outside of tent..? (hard to tell with ours which side its on..). If its on the inside do we still need to re-proof..?

Hi Philyerboots

You'll always need to re-proof when a tents been washed, whether you've washed the inside or outside just to be on the safe side.

xxx

Thanks BevSem.

The HG mould stuff turned up today from ebay so we'll be having a go at the tent this weekend thanks to the nice weather. I've also got some of the Aldi reproofer ready as you suggest. Presumably we only need to re-proof both sides where we've used the cleaner..?..I know I'm being a bit thick but I've never cleaned mildew from a tent before.

The interesting bit will be finding enough space to try putting up the tent in our tiny garden..!