My house cleaner told me today that she used vinegar with baking soda on
someone's extremely moldy shower and it was extremely effective.

HTH,

Susan

Judy, we must be neighbors.  :-)  On top of sharing all the above, we
moved into this house built into a hill that drains toward the house,
keeping the sill plate wet and the (unfinished) basement walls damp.  In
heavy rains, I see water on my basement floor.  Fortunately, there's a
drain in the floor and I have a fabulous new dehumidifier with a hose
continuously draining into the hole in the floor; it's a Soleus.  I read
reviews, and it really is all that much better than any other I've ever
used.  I run a large HEPA air cleaner in my bedroom, and my cleaning
woman knows to do guerilla warfare with dust and mold, too, behind
hanging pictures, mirrors, tops of moldings, etc...  Cleaning closets is
key to dust control, too, I've found.

I am Bleach royalty, myself.  ;-)

Our garage is built into the hill, it's earth on 3 sides, and so damp as
to be useless for storage; there's a big black slimy mold slick on the
floor of it.  My allergy shots have helped a LOT with that mold and
whatever may be in the basement, but not with the invisible stuff in my
bathroom.  I wonder if I can grow some in a dish and have my allergist
test me for whatever it is and add it to my shots?

I live on Long Island; water everywhere.  I live on the north shore,
wooded.  My property has no lawn, it's hilly, covered with ivy and, you
guess it, lots of moldy leaf litter underneath it.

But my bathroom, no matter how clean, does me in every time.

Susan

If you haven't heard about this before, you might get a laugh or two out
of it:

Space Fungus Gets Scientists' Attention
Fungus Is Everywhere    

You might not expect to find mold and mildew in a brand new space
station. But that's just what scientists are worried about. What
problems can common fungus cause for the next generation of astronauts?

It was a discovery that matched the exotic with the commonplace, the
extraterrestrial with the earthly. An astronaut peering out of Russia's
Mir space station 12 years ago found the view blocked by a layer of
fungus growing on the inside of the window.

The fungus had arrived from Earth, probably attached to the human
travelers occupying Mir. As it multiplied rapidly and even began
"eating" the equipment on the space station, scientists started thinking
seriously about dangers they had not anticipated. Fungus is a part of
everyday life on Earth, but who would have thought that it could affect
the advanced machinery hurtling through such an inhospitable environment
as outer space?

http://www.riverdeep.net/current/2000/10/101900_spacemold.jhtml

"Major spring clean on International Space Station
Apr 15, 2006, 14:34 GMT
Moscow - The astronauts and cosmonauts living on the International Space
Station (ISS) announced Saturday that they would be carrying out a major
spring clean on the station.
"Russian Commander Pavel Vinogradov and US Station Engineer Jeffrey
Williams planned to clean dust and mould from a 100-square-metre surface
area of the station on Saturday, Russia's Itar-Tass news agency quoted
mission control spokesman Valeri Lyndin as saying in Moscow."

http://science.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_1155598.php

So don't feel bad about where you're living.  The astronauts can't get
away from mold and mildew even in outer space.   :-)