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Hi all long time no see. Lots of things have happened. Will explain in my other thread.

But I digress I've wanted to ask if anyone has had problems with mould on their wagons before and if do, how you tackled it.
This was stored for over a year in the room I was living in for a year and when I was moving out found it was pitted.

It seems as if it is superficial atm and the wagon (save the roof but that will be replaced anyway when I come round to rebuilding it) was given a good coat of outdoor varnish.

My first thought would be to give it a gentle scrub with an old toothbrsuh using a fungididal wash, let it dry and see what that gives you. Then possiby just put it down to 'weathering'.

Bowl of hot water, washing up liquid, plastic brush ... as used on my wagons at the start of every running season after their winter storage.

Wagons generally get the white vinegar and a toothbrush treatment, then dried off with a rag. I am a bit gentler with carriages, they get warm soapy water with vinegar added, and gentle use of the old toothbrush. Mould, of one description or another, is a major problem in Virginia where the summer climate is warm and humid. The fun part is watch my wife freak out over the stuff, as she is a Westerner she is not familiar with the South's mould problem.

Peter in Va

I quite like the way the wagon looks to be honest!

It's fine, I will get my coat...

Actually, if wagons get a bit manky I tend to leave them. If they are a lot manky, then I give them a swipe. In any case, I have never seen a clean wagon on a railway except when it has just come out of the shops.

Peter in Va

lol cheers chaps, tbh if it wasn't mould I may have kept it but with a littl one on the way I don't want to take any risks with it.

I would have feare for my health!

If You store this waggon in a dry atmosphere it will disappeare from alone.

For me it looks like a mold created by an extraordinary high humidity.

Can be caused by to less fresh air and, or to less hooting the room.

Frederic

I think a little bit of laundry bleach and an old toothbrush will sort that out.