10 Effective Ways to Get Rid of House Odors

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If you buy a new house, you will more or less encounter this problem: The pungent chemical smell caused by new home decoration is difficult to remove for a while. No matter how much air freshener you use, the smell will still bother your private space for a long time. Here are several methods to help you quickly remove the smell of a newly-decorated house and add an extra layer of protection to our health. Method 1: Cliché 1. Properly open a window on the top of the wall that is not directly air-dried for ventilation ； 2. Fill a basin or a small bucket with cold water, then add an appropriate amount of vinegar and place it in a ventilated room, and open the furniture door. This can not only evaporate an appropriate amount of water to protect the wall top coating surface, but also absorb and eliminate residual odors. ； 3. If financial conditions permit, you can buy some pineapples and put a few in each room. You can put more in larger rooms. Because pineapple is a crude fiber fruit, it can not only absorb the smell of paint, but also emit the fragrance of pineapple, speeding up the removal of odor, and achieve the best of both worlds. Method 2: Wipe the decorated room with citric acid. How to remove residual odor? The renovated room cannot be moved in immediately. It is necessary to ventilate the room as much as possible to dissipate odors, but do not open all doors and windows for ventilation, because this may bring disadvantages to the paint on the top of the wall that has just been completed, causing the top of the wall to dry quickly, prone to cracks, and ruining the appearance. To quickly remove residual paint smell, you can soak cotton balls with citric acid and hang them indoors and in wooden furniture, but this is too troublesome. Method 3: Remove odors from fruits. It was discovered in Nanning City, Guangxi, the hometown of fruits. Many citizens use tropical fruits to remove odors. The effect is good, the cost is low, and the method is simple. Some tropical fruits grow in tropical and subtropical environments with sufficient sunshine and rainfall, and have particularly strong fragrance. The fruits contain a lot of water, and the strong fragrance can be emitted for a long time. Many citizens regard these fruits as natural and practical "air cleaners." Some citizens use jackfruit (a tropical fruit similar to durian) to remove chemical odors from newly renovated houses, and the effect is also very good. Newly renovated houses often have the pungent smell of various chemical raw materials such as Tianna water. Put an open jackfruit in the house. Because the jackfruit is large (usually as big as a watermelon) and has a very strong fragrance, the smell can be absorbed in a few days. Method 4: Peel Deodorization Many people are worried about the gas emitted from newly renovated houses. Apart from opening the windows to disperse the smell, there seems to be no better way. Not really. First of all, you can go to the market and choose some high-tech odor-eliminating cleaners, which can remove harmful gases emitted from newly renovated houses, new furniture, etc. According to relevant sources, these odor-eliminating cleaners are generally imported products that use ammonia compounds to react chemically with harmful substances, thus playing a role in odor-eliminating cleaning. In newly renovated rooms, you can pour this kind of odor-eliminating cleaner into a plate and place the plates in each room respectively. Combined with the scrubbing and odor-removing method, the unpleasant odor can be effectively removed after a few days. In addition, placing orange peels, lemon peels and other items in the room is also a very effective way to remove odors, but their effects will not be very quick. Method Five Tips for Decontamination: How to Remove Odor, Prevent Discoloration, and Remove Dirt. Newly renovated homes will always encounter various small problems. After living in the house for a long time, some embarrassing situations will occur in the decoration inside. Here I will teach you some tips to deal with it. Cleaning Paint Brushes Paint brushes quickly stick together and are difficult to clean. You can wipe the paint brush with a cloth first, take a cup of water, add a few drops of detergent to it, rinse the brush with it, the paint will immediately break down into powder and lose its viscosity, then rinse it with water and it will be clean. How to Get Rid of Paint Smell Newly decorated walls or floors often emit a pungent paint smell that remains indoors for a long time, making people dizzy and uncomfortable. At this time, you can put two basins of salt water indoors, and the paint smell will be eliminated quickly. If the paint smell comes from wooden furniture, you can scrub it with tea several times and the paint smell will be eliminated faster. Wipe away food stains on the sofa. If the fabric-covered sofa is contaminated by food, it must be removed immediately. If it is contaminated by juice, tea, etc., first absorb the water with paper towels, then wipe it with kitchen neutral detergent, and finally wipe it with clean water. For oily dirt such as chocolate, wipe it with volatile oil. Prevent the yellowing of the wall. To prevent the yellowing of the wall, you might as well try the following two methods.: First, brush the wall first, then the floor. After the floor is dry, paint a layer on the original wall to ensure that the wall is white. Another method is to paint the floor first and then paint the walls after it is completely dry. It should be noted that after painting the walls and floors, they must be ventilated to allow various chemical components to evaporate as much as possible to avoid chemical reactions. Wood Floor Decontamination If there is dirt on the floor, it can be removed by mixing it with a weak alkaline detergent with a small amount of ethanol. Because ethanol is added, the stain removal power will be enhanced. This method can also be used to remove dirt from bakelite floors. Since ethanol can discolor wooden floors, you should first apply a small amount of the mixture on a rag to the dirt, and then wipe it clean with a wet rag. If the wooden floor has no discoloration, it can be used with confidence.