No, and reaching for the bleach bottle usually makes things worse. Chlorine cannot penetrate drywall, wood, or grout to reach the roots inside the material, but the water in the bleach solution soaks right in, and mold drinks it. The patch looks clean for a few weeks, then returns, fed by the moisture you just added. Worse, scrubbing the colony releases live spores into the air while you stand over it breathing bleach fumes in an enclosed room. You get the health exposure and keep the mold.

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