The True Cause of Odor Problems

Odor Problems are caused by the Normal Stuff of Life.

Kittens and puppies don’t arrive in homes housetrained. Mold and mildew like to grow in damp, dark places. Food spoils inside refrigerators. Garbage and other disagreeable things accumulate in floor-mounted heating ducts. Not everyone hits the proper target in the bathroom. In other words, unpleasant odors can take over small areas, large rooms, or entire houses.

Removing Odor Problems is Simple

Understanding the source of your odor problems is the key to solving it. The offensive smells you associate with odor problems are almost always gases released from their sources.

Solve Your Urine Odor Problems

For instance, as urine dries it produces ammonia gas and urea salt among other things. The ammonia gas is what we smell at first, but when this urea salt becomes damp again, it reacts with its surroundings and produces a gas called mercaptan. This gas is the smell you associate with urine contamination. To solve a urine contamination, the urea salt that will dissolve in water needs to removed and the rest neutralized so there is no gas. If both of these processes do not occur, the contaminated area will become larger and more deeply imbedded in the cracks and pours of the carpet and flooring. And the source of the gas and the offensive smell will remain. Urine splash around the toilet causes an odor problem if left to dry as just described. So to get rid of the odor problem, wash the splashed area and spray it with an effective odor eliminator

Solve Odor Problems Caused by Mold

With mold and mildew, the actual mold spots and spores that float around the area cause the musty smell. But water invading a dark space is the actual cause of the mold and mildew. Thus solving the odor problem involves stopping the source of the water invasion, then removing the mold, mildew and spores.

Refrigerator Odor Problems

Mold can also gather on food forgotten about in the corners of refrigerators or on food left to spoil in turned off units. This mold and other foul-smelling bacteria infect the entire internal atmosphere of the refrigerator. Simply discarding the food and ventilating the refrigerator is not enough. Every part of the interior, such as the shelf mounting brackets and the door gaskets, needs to be treated to eradicate the source of the odor problems in the refrigerator and thus the odor problem itself.

Other Household Odor Problems

Another source of offensive odors comes from trash, food, urine, and other materials that find their way into the duct work.