Mold & Mildew Free Shower for 4 months | Pretty Handy Girl

Mold & Mildew Free Shower for 4 months | Pretty Handy Girl
Endurance BioBarrier Review

I’m going to warn you now, this is not a pretty post. But, this product review of Endurance Cleaner Prep and Endurance BioBarrier will most likely be one of your favorite posts if you deal with continual mold & mildew growth (especially in a small coffin-like shower from the 1970’s.)

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You may remember how much I love our master bathroom shower:

Mold & Mildew Free Shower for 4 months | Pretty Handy Girl

That ugly harvest gold tile shower is the ugliest spot in our home. And, its attractive color is not helped by the mold growth that returns like clockwork every three weeks. I have tried everything to control its regrowth. What I’ve tried is using bleach, and leaving the shower door open all day. I even replaced the caulk in this shower. But, every three weeks that mold peeks out from the cracks and crevices.

This bathroom is slated to be demolished at some point, but until then it needs constant cleaning. That is until a few months ago when I tried Endurance BioBarrier Mold Prevention Spray (non-toxic and low-odor.)

Endurance sent me a the Cleaner Prep and Biobarrier to try out. You may remember that I tried it after cleaning our dirty and moldy storm windows.

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I didn’t want to blog about the products until I had tried them for more than a few months. I’m happy to report that for four months, I didn’t need to clean our shower! Normally after three weeks the mold and mildew would have been happily growing in the corners of my shower.

Mold & Mildew Free Shower for 4 months | Pretty Handy Girl

On February 5th, 2015 I set about cleaning the shower with high hopes but big doubts.

Mold & Mildew Free Shower for 4 months | Pretty Handy Girl

As directed, I sprayed the Endurance BioBarrier Cleaner Prep in the shower. I let it sit for 15 minutes (1-5 minutes for normal cleaning. 15 minutes for tougher jobs.)

Mold & Mildew Free Shower for 4 months | Pretty Handy Girl

To clean off the mildew and mold, I used a scrub brush. Then rinsed all the surfaces with water.

Mold & Mildew Free Shower for 4 months | Pretty Handy Girl

After the shower is completely cleaned with the Cleaner Prep, spray the Endurance BioBarrier Anti-Mold protection spray to create a thin film on all surfaces.

Mold & Mildew Free Shower for 4 months | Pretty Handy Girl

Wipe up any puddled spray after a few minutes.

Mold & Mildew Free Shower for 4 months | Pretty Handy Girl

The shower was clean and devoid of any mold or mildew. Nothing miraculous yet. I can achieve the same results with bleach cleaner.

Mold & Mildew Free Shower for 4 months | Pretty Handy Girl

But, here’s where the similarities end. After four months (not three weeks) was the first time I began to see some mildew and mold regrowth.

Mold & Mildew Free Shower for 4 months | Pretty Handy Girl

I took the following photos on June 4th, almost four months to the day since cleaning the shower. You can see all the soap scum that had accumulated, but only a small amount of mildew had begun to form.

Mold & Mildew Free Shower for 4 months | Pretty Handy Girl

I was told by my contact at Endurance that typically the spray works 6 months or longer. But, given the small confined shower and no ventilation in that room, the mildew grew back earlier than typical results. Regardless, I’m thrilled with the results.

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You can use the Endurance BioBarrier Cleaner Prep product to clean up mold. Then use the Endurance Mold Prevention Spray for long lasting protection against mold, mildew, germs and musty odors. You can expect up to 6 months in high-traffic areas such as bathrooms, kitchens and locker rooms. Up to 2 years on exposed indoor or outdoor surfaces such as ceilings, walls, stucco, siding, roofing, gutters, concrete, bricks and more. And up to 25 years on enclosed surfaces such as attics, crawl spaces and stud cavities.

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Disclosure: Endurance BioBarrier sent me the Endurance BioBarrier and Cleaner Prep spray products to try at no cost. I was not paid to mention them or told what to say. As always, if I don’t like a product, you won’t see it featured on my blog. 

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  1. al
    al says:

    no ventilation, check
    mold and mildew, check
    sore knees from bi-weekly bleach scrub, check
    only thing missing is the gold tile…if fortune is on my side, look forward to testing it it out on the gray tiles

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  2. Kat
    Kat says:

    Mold in my shower comes back possibly even faster than three weeks (although I don’t often get in there with bleach, usually just scrubbing and whatever I have on hand). If this really works, it would save me so much trouble!

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  3. Lori
    Lori says:

    I REALLY NEED this in our basement bathroom! My sons use this bathroom and obviously don’t clean it as often as they should, but even if they did we would still have a mold/mildew problem. There is no window or fan in the room and it is almost always warm in there. It looks and smells terrible within a week of cleaning. I would love to give this a try!! Thanks so much!

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  4. Kim
    Kim says:

    Our master bath shower is much like yours except I have trouble getting it all off even with a full on bleach session. Would love to try this! Thanks for the giveaway.

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  5. Kori W
    Kori W says:

    I would love to give this a try in our master bath – I can’t stop the mold from coming back (just like yours its tiny and non-ventilated). At some point we hope to replace ours as well, but with a baby on the way we need a simpler solution for now (and the idea of not having to scrub the shower for my whole last trimester sounds fantastic!). Thanks for the chance!

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  6. Christy
    Christy says:

    My master bath shower stall. Yuck, yuck, yuck. Yours looks pristine compared to what mine would look like after three weeks of no cleaning. It’s disgusting. So, this product intrigues me!!

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