Sanity check

[venta]

Our bathroom has the whole wall by the bath tiled. Between the tiles is a peculiar form of coloured grout, which wants to grow unpleasant mould[*]. The only way to reason with it is bleach and a scrubbing brush.

I know from experience that it's very difficult to do this without getting covered in water, bleach up your sleeves etc. Therefore, getting undressed and getting into the shower to tackle the scrubbing is:

• Clearly a sensible course of action


• Clearly something else, involving the words "lunacy" and "risible"

You decide. There's a difference of opinion in our house over this :)

[*] I'm sure this shouldn't happen in non-student houses. I guess our house has realised we're all students at heart, and only pretending to be proper people.

Comments

Use Stilts ?

[lathany.livejournal.com]

Or cunningly rearrange the household jobs so that it becomes someone elses problem ?

I personally dislike the idea of neat bleach on bare skin, so tend to go for the various mold and mildew options suggested by Caroline. (We too have this problem and it is over a decade since *I* was a student.) However, I do agree that bleach tends to work better/fast/etc. than the alternatives.

Stilts? With *my* sense of balance?

[venta.livejournal.com]

Despite coming from a family with a history that long of skin problems, sensitive skin etc, I seem to have completely bomb proof skin.

Well, it's certainly bleach proof, anyway :) The only time I ever bother with rubber gloves is if I'm dealing with something really evil like caustic soda.