It’s not something you actually talk about in polite company. I mean, you probably really don’t speak its name often because frankly, you don’t want anyone to know you’ve got it. Admitting you DO have it is sort of on a par with owning up to bad breath…nits even. I’m going to go out on a limb here and risk offending even the brave among you and just bring it right out in the open for discussion. Yep, I’m talking about mold.
Now our eager team of customer pleasers here at Windwerks have to field some thorny questions from the public at times. We take all enquiries seriously…up to a point. There was a guy named Bruce who used to phone us every Monday at 4 pm and ask incredibly detailed, intimate even, questions about our windsocks. It started out quite innocuous the first few times…”How long is your 1.5 mt spinning windsock?” Okay, maybe the guy couldn’t read. The customer is always right and all that, so we dutifully answered, “Well..1.5mts.” And that seemed enough to satisfy him. The questions grew in intensity each week until we were actually starting to get stumped and more than a little annoyed by them. Like who really knew how wide the bottom fin was on our large fish sock? Exasperated and a little miffed, I think I answered , “About as long as my middle finger.” The questions just got stumpier and stumpier until one day we struck on the brilliant idea to give Bruce the telephone number of a shop in his area who sold our products and sent him on his merry way to torment the life out of someone else. Worked for us!
So I guess I am trying to say that we are mostly up to fielding difficult questions about our products and the, “How do I get rid of mold on my windsock”, question just keeps coming around like a bad smell. So here is the definitive answer for all those wonderful customers who live in the humid zones of this wide, brown and sometimes damp land and love their windsocks like the family pet. Soak your moldy windsock overnight in a strong solution of one of the many powdered nappy sanitizers on the market. If you choose an oxygen based product it will work as well as the bleach based products and is better for the environment.
The best option is not to wait until it looks like it has leprosy before you toss it in the soaking bucket–by then the mold has penetrated the fabric fibres and it a lot harder to shift. Just keep an eye on it periodically and give it a little spruce up with the soaker when needed and you will get a lot more life and enjoyment out of your most colourful addition to the family.
Oh and if any of you have extra time on your hands and are good at tricky questions just pop me your phone number and next time Bruce rings I’ll tell him, in no uncertain terms, where to go to get the answer.
Cheers,
Kim
December 2010