Treatment for surface mould in Nicosia

Which Nicosia patches stay on the surface

Plenty of the mould people find in the capital has not had time to dig in. It is the grey bloom that appears on a window reveal in the first cold weeks, the black specks along shower grout, the fur on the back of a chest of drawers that stood against an outside wall all winter. If the surface underneath is sound and the growth wipes to a stain rather than a hole, it is usually a case for surface treatment, from €125, normally carried out in one visit with no building work.

Tiled bathrooms are a good example. Mould on grout lines and tiled walls and on the paint just above the tiles is often surface-deep, even when it looks heavy.

Habits that feed it in a Nicosia winter

Inland winters bring a run of grey, wet days, and households respond in ways that put water into the air:

• Laundry dried on racks in the living room or a spare bedroom, because outside it will not dry. The effect is bigger than most people expect; see what indoor drying does to a room.
• Portable gas or paraffin heaters, which release moisture as they burn.
• Windows kept shut day and night to hold the heat in.
• Showers with the door closed and no extractor running, leaving steam to settle on the ceiling.

None of these is unusual, and changing one or two often does more than any product. Treatment clears the growth that is there; the report shows what fed it.

When treatment will not be enough

Some Nicosia cases look minor but are not. A patch that has come back after being treated before, plaster that sounds hollow when tapped, a bathroom ceiling that peels in strips (our article on a bathroom ceiling that keeps going black covers this) or growth that has spread across a whole wall all point to removal from €175 instead. So does mould that lines up with a crack, a pipe or a roof edge, because that suggests water from outside rather than condensation from inside. If the photos you send show any of this, the specialist who prices the job will say so before anything is booked.

Keeping a treated wall clean

A treated surface stays clear when the room gets drier. That often means a better extractor, a gap between furniture and the outside wall, or insulating the one cold spot that keeps attracting moisture.