Online publications contain a lot of useful tips on how to get rid of unpleasant odors in rooms and areas of the apartment: kitchen, toilet, shoe boxes, refrigerator, closets with clothes, microwave oven or washing machine. We suggest you learn 5 simple skills to regularly maintain a fresh atmosphere in your home, without waiting for a persistent unpleasant odor to appear.
Regular ventilation of the room
The first ventilation, regardless of the time of year, is performed in the morning after waking up. 5-10 minutes is enough. Regular ventilation is necessary every 1-1.5 hours. Regular access of fresh air to the apartment prevents stagnant unpleasant odors from appearing. In winter, it is enough to ventilate the room for 10 minutes 3-4 times a day: during this time the air will have time to be completely renewed.
Ventilation of utility rooms, lockers for shoes and clothes is carried out at least 2 times a year. Ventilation should be accompanied by removal of things, wet cleaning and disinfection with an aqueous solution of vinegar.
Regular wet cleaning
Weekly wet cleaning will help fight dust, as well as the habit of putting books, clothes, and soft toys in specially designated places. Decorative elements such as textiles, carpets, framed pictures, figurines, vases and soft toys attract dust, making cleaning difficult.
Floors, walls and other surfaces of the room should be wiped twice: to collect all the dust that settles on the wet surface.
Pets, smoking
Pet urine and tobacco smell are two things that should be nipped in the bud. No matter how you ventilate the room after a smoker or fumigate the room with incense sticks, the persistent smell of tobacco still remains an eternal companion of the room, and after wet cleaning it only intensifies. The presence of cats and dogs in the apartment is felt by strangers from the threshold of the house. The smell of the animal permeates not only carpets and upholstery, but also the owner’s clothes.
Houseplants
It’s easy to create a cozy and fresh atmosphere in your home with the help of living indoor plants. They absorb carbon dioxide, vapors of acetones, ethanols and formaldehydes, producing oxygen.
- Opt for sansevieria, monstera, chamaedorea palm, arecca palm or spathiphyllum to ensure healthy sleep in a fresh and humidified room.
- Ferns, violets and geraniums ionize the atmosphere with negatively charged particles.
- The money tree (crassula) is known not only for its mythical qualities, but also for its practical beneficial properties: all parts of the flower absorb volatile chemical compounds that are part of household chemicals, including formaldehyde.
- Ficus and succulents absorb radioactive and electromagnetic radiation.
Instead of expensive room filters, ionizers and humidifiers, it is enough to purchase at least 5 indoor plants to refresh an area of 30 square meters. m.
Periodic cleaning of problem areas followed by disinfection
In each apartment there is approximately the same list of “Bermuda triangles” or areas with increased clutter and unpleasant odor: toilet, kitchen sink, hood, trash can, refrigerator, shoe box, vacuum cleaner, etc. Designate these areas for yourself and pay 2-3 times more attention to cleaning and airing them than to other areas of the house.
Once a year, call a specialist to clean the ventilation openings, which largely contribute to the stagnant odor, adding to it odors from neighboring apartments. The smell of mold in the bathroom will be removed by frequently wiping the walls with an aqueous solution of vinegar and laying out several tablets of activated carbon: it will absorb stagnant moisture.
Establish a duty to empty the trash can. This must be done once every 1-2 days. The refrigerator is checked once a week for spoiled food. Once a month, it is completely emptied, washed and refreshed with a small container of baking soda and a few drops of lemon or orange essential oil (not perfumed).
You can prevent the appearance of odors in your apartment with the help of useful and strict cleanliness habits, which are easily and painlessly inculcated in childhood.
It looks like it was written by a mentally ill person.
Try renovating and throwing away old furniture. After this you won't have to do any of the above.
“Pet urine and the smell of tobacco are two things that should be nipped in the bud” - what, excuse me? Throw away the animals, euthanize them? Why was the author ashamed to finish his, so to speak, “thought”? Let's add elderly and sick people to the list, and a bunch of small children too? Their, to quote the author,: “presence in the apartment” is also “felt by strangers from the threshold of the house.” Author, wash your head from the inside.
The article was written by a mentally ill person.