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Home » Reader question » Reader question: How do I prevent moldy clothing & bedding in Thailand?
Dear readers,
Back in Thailand, after being away for a few months, I found a mild form of mold (grey, not really black) in clothes and bedding. I had stored things in large lockable boxes (everything dry of course).
What is the solution for this? Slica bags or something? If so, where available? FYI: NOT putting in boxes is not an option, I have to save things.
With thanks,
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Have you tried vacuum bags yet? These are available in different sizes and can be vacuumed with a vacuum cleaner. This way, the clothes suddenly take up 1/3 less space.
I bought my bags myself in Europe, but have already seen them appear on groupon thailand. So they are certainly also available in Thailand.
Maybe some tips on this site.
https://www.google.co.th/?gws_rd=cr,ssl&ei=jAktVLqJOYy4uASdvoCgDw#q=hoe+voorkom+je+schimmel+in+kleding
Success.
You can try to sprinkle large handfuls of rice between the clothes. The moisture absorbs into the rice and your clothes stay dry.
My grandmother used that brown wrapping paper and some bars of soap between the clothes/bedding.
I don't know if this would also help in Thailand?
Like Yanna said, vacuum bags. We have also done just available in Thailand. And the advantage is also the space saving.
Put an open dish with charcoal in your wardrobe. The charcoal absorbs the moisture.
Thai method !
What you should do about that, leave a few lamps on in a closet, make a kind of drying cabinet.
Succes
Greetings Gert
You can just mothball in the closet down. If you don't mind the smell. They also sell large ones in MAKRO. Cheap and old fashioned.
No Joanna,
Mothballs do nothing to reduce the moisture, but they do smell horribly of times around the 2nd World War.
Geert Visser's idea is the very best. I've been doing it for years. Do not use LED lamps but incandescent lamps of approximately 20 watts per cubic meter. And hang them freely in the cupboard or box. So an average double-door wardrobe needs a maximum of 40/50 watts.
That costs about 7 KW per week.
So:
put rice in between and suck vacuum in vacuum bags then everything is solved cheaply!
Lamps and such create a risk of fire and so on and are a real counterpart to an economical and eco-responsible solution! Surely you are not going to burn 7 kW per week with a small lamp for perhaps a cubic meter of textile? That's a joke and you can't. That man is usually not there for 3 or 4 months! If the lamp breaks down after a week because it has to be on 24 hours a day, it will have all that mold again. Rice and vacuuming is a 100% solution.
suc6
very useful tips, but where do I buy vacuum bags?
Is it a good idea to have them shipped? Or maybe bring someone who is going to Thailand soon?