Mold and Bleach
NEVER, NEVER, NEVER use bleach on a sail. Both EPA and OSHA have issued letters stating what has been know in the remediation business for years, bleach does not kill mold. You can clean as much mold off a surface with a dirty diaper as you can with bleach. Let alone the damage the hazardous chemicals do to the people and the fabrics and the stitching in the sails.
As a matter of fact, the stabilizers left behind when the bleach evaporates acts like miricle grow to the mold spores left behind. That is why the mold comes back in larger quantities and faster after a cleaning.
Try cleaning a high end synthetic sail fabric with diluted bleach and see how you make out.
I have been in the mold remediation business for years and there are products that will kill all the mold in sails and not harm the fabrics.
Hit me back and I will send you the websites to look up the info.
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