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08-01-2007, 05:18 AM
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Seasoned Camper
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: boron
Posts: 82
M.O.C. #5248
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red film in shower
have a red film forming around the shower where the wall meets the top of the tub, has anyone else seen this before, not sure if it is something in the water where we are at now or possibly something in leftover from the last place we stayed. thanks
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08-01-2007, 05:29 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Lone Tree
Posts: 5,615
M.O.C. #6109
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Pep - Maybe it's iron from a rusty campground service?
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08-01-2007, 05:40 AM
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Seasoned Camper
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: boron
Posts: 82
M.O.C. #5248
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i have thought about that, we are staying at my the inlaws right now and are on regular water, the last place we were hooked up to was well water about 6-8 months ago, not sure if it would be still in the system. but the water we are on now is the area i grew up in and never had this type of problem.
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08-01-2007, 05:57 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: _
Posts: 5,238
M.O.C. #6337
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Have seen it, thought it was a form of mold?? or something akin.
Cleaned real well, but in humid conditions, seems to come back.
Clean with some disinfectant???
Note, it is where the water stays unless you REALLY dry out the entire shower area after each shower.
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08-01-2007, 06:34 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: North Ridgeville
Posts: 20,229
M.O.C. #2839
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shazam..... We had that also for the first time a couple of weeks ago. Never saw anything like that. There was also some in the tub. It seemed to have formed on our trip home from Colorado???? What is it????...
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08-01-2007, 06:48 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location:
Posts: 608
M.O.C. #6162
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It is bacteria. Spray it with any shower cleaner or use Comet. I use a degreaser available in Costco to clean lots of stuff!
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08-01-2007, 07:20 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Asheville
Posts: 502
M.O.C. #1967
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Read the label that came in the shower stall and clean it with that. It is a mold/bacteria/srud stuff that cleans up easily.
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08-01-2007, 08:40 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Lone Tree
Posts: 5,615
M.O.C. #6109
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Rich,
Colorado does mean "Color Red" ! 
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08-01-2007, 01:43 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Livingston
Posts: 575
M.O.C. #5920
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Sounds like pink mold to me. Mold can be serious; especially if you have chronic underlying health conditions, like a weakend immune system or bad lungs. It isn't the mold itself but the toxins that they produce that make you sick. Sounds like the Chaetomium or Mucor variety to me. That's usually the type found in showers and bathrooms Black hairy mold is very dangerous a produces a virulent toxin that can cause the healthiest person to become deathly ill.
Symptoms include headache, respiratory problems and cold/flu like symptoms, skin irritation, rash, etc.
We had friends in WV whose house was built down by the river. She started getting sick, couldn't figure out what the problem was and she did not improve. After years of doctoring and being diagnosed with a huge variety of ailments, they discovered the walls of their house was absolutely infested with black hairy mold. EPA moved in and condemned their home. All they were allowed to take were their dishes; cause they could be washed in bleach solution. Pics, clothes, furniture--all gone. Their house sat for years abandoned awaiting an insurance settlement. Couldn't even burn it because of the spores being released in the air...Scary stuff, huh? Happy to say, they are rebuilding a new house now.
Be careful out there!
t
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08-01-2007, 02:28 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Lone Tree
Posts: 5,615
M.O.C. #6109
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Oh thanks Tara - already got a lung condition! Now I think I'll just put a plastic bag over my head
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08-01-2007, 03:43 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Livingston
Posts: 575
M.O.C. #5920
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Brad,
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. Now go clean the shower! Think I will too, diluted bleach is best.
t
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08-01-2007, 03:55 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: North Ridgeville
Posts: 20,229
M.O.C. #2839
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" Sounds like the Chaetomium or Mucor variety to me. That's usually the type found in showers and bathrooms Black hairy mold is very dangerous a produces a virulent toxin that can cause the healthiest person to become deathly ill.
Symptoms include headache, respiratory problems and cold/flu like symptoms, skin irritation, rash, etc"
AAGGGHHH....
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08-03-2007, 10:08 AM
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Montana Fan
Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 217
M.O.C. #2840
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We have this pink stuff on the plastic seals on the glass doors - have tried almost everything to get it to go away and it remains. So have pink seals in places around the glass panels.
It has colored the seals and can't get it out.
Any thoughts?
Laura
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08-03-2007, 04:54 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: South
Posts: 2,499
M.O.C. #5140
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We first saw it in the toilet when I was cleaning it: up under the rim. Used chlorox in the toilet and the shower. It is a form of mold. In heavily humid areas, it seems to grow quickly.
Just use a chlorine-based cleaner and you will be fine.
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08-04-2007, 04:34 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Livingston
Posts: 575
M.O.C. #5920
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Bleach is the best. Be sure and make it dilute; I like half bleach half water. Put in spray bottle, spray and let it soak for awhile. Do not breathe the cleaning agent; the gas can damage your lungs if you inhale the fumes of chlorine. Best to spray and walk away.
t
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08-04-2007, 12:18 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Englewood
Posts: 3,095
M.O.C. #164
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9 Parts water 1 part bleech this will do the job
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