There’s nothing quite like a nice hot shower.  After a long day, a hot shower is a good way to relax and get cleaned up.  Hot showers are also a great way to start your day if you’re an early riser.  Trouble is, hot water, especially during a long shower, is going to create a lot of suspended moisture that will settle into every surface, nook, and corner in your bathroom.  If your mirror is fogged after a shower, you know that every surface in the bathroom is as well.  Condensed water, especial in the channels for a shower door or the corners of your bathroom, is a breeding ground for mold if left unchecked.  Here’s how to keep your bathroom clean and sparkling.

Mop Up After Showers and Baths

Use a towel to absorb water and dry off floors, walls, and tubs.  This is especially true after a shower and when bathrooms are not actually in use.  If you’re facing a humid week due to heavy rains or fog, keep an eye on your bathroom for condensation or black spots beginning to form near especially wet corners.  If mold does start to appear, use warm, soapy water to clean the area, then towel and air dry to clean the surface.

Use a Dehumidifier

If conditions are too humid, either from ambient air or due to a hot shower, then it’s time to break out a dehumidifier.  This is self-explanatory, since dehumidifiers take water-vapor out of the air and condense that water internally.  Running a dehumidifier during your shower will prevent condensation from forming on walls and surfaces.  But you should consider that humid air is warmer.  Running a dehumidifier while showering will mean stepping out into the cold.  If that doesn’t bother you, it’s better than drying the bathroom after every shower.

Forced Air Ventilation

Extractor fans or bathroom ventilators as the simplest and best way to dry a bathroom after a shower.  Every bathroom should have an exhaust fan (or at least a window) already.  Running the fan during your shower will help cycle air out of the room, drawing dryer air from other rooms.  By circulating the air out, it prevents saturation which means that colder surfaces (walls, sinks, etc) won’t cause condensation to form as easily.

Run your exhaust fan while showering to maximize the effect.  But, if you enjoy the warmth provided from a steam-filled bathroom, then turn on and run the fan for at least half an hour after your shower is over.  The circulating air will dry out the bathroom and clean up any condensation you missed with the towel.

Leave towels hanging to dry in the bathroom while air is being cycled, but don’t store towels in the bathroom after the fan has stopped and you’ve closed the door.  Wet laundry carries enough spores to spawn a colony of mold, and the warm and wet environment is perfect for them if the laundry is left there for too long.

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