Archive for Odor Control

That Stinks: Call the St. Louis Area’s Odor Removal Specialists

Home is supposed to be your family’s happy place. At the end of the day or on the weekends, home should be the place you go to reconnect with family, celebrate the day’s triumphs, or recharge your batteries. But if you’re dealing with persistent household odors, it can be anything but. You’ve tried it all, right? Deep cleaning, open windows, better ventilation, candles, odor-masking sprays… none of them have done the trick. Perhaps it’s time to call in the St. Louis odor removal pros at Sams Carpet Cleaning and Repairs.

How Sams Removes Household Odors

There are a variety of factors that can lead to odors in your home. Many of the readily available “solutions” simply mask the smell instead of eliminating it. At Sams, we know how unpleasant it is to live in a house that stinks, and we also know what works to stop that stink! Whether it’s pets, smoke, cooking, a musty smell, or a strange smell you haven’t even been able to pinpoint yet,  we are here to help.

When you attempt to mask an odor, even if it works, it only works temporarily. Sometimes it just adds a new, equally offensive layer to the existing odor. The Sams team doesn’t cover up or mask the stink. We strike it at its source using a variety of treatments, depending on the what’s causing the problem:

  • Our trained professionals utilize state-of-the-art Ozone machines to convert normal oxygen to activated oxygen. Activated oxygen breaks down air pollutants and odors at their source.
  • We also employ a Thermo Fog process to follow the trails where odors could drift in your home, and neutralize them in hard to reach nooks and crannies. Thermo Fog’s small particles can penetrate contaminated surfaces to neutralize orders at sources you aren’t even able to see.
  • Sometimes odors can be traveling through the house from a source in your ductwork. Air Duct Cleaning is another important tool in our arsenal for permanent odor removal. This process removes dust, pollutants, and bacterial from your ducts and takes any odors they might cause with them.
  • Mold loves damp conditions. Our powerful commercial-grade Dehumidifiers ruin the environment mold thrives in. For those musty smells, our fleet of dehumidifiers remove moisture once and for all.

St. Charles and St. Louis Odor Removal Expertise

Whether you’ve identified the source of your odor problem, or you’re still unsure what’s causing it, your next call should be to the Sams team. We want you to be able to enjoy your home to its fullest. That means having a home that not only smells clean, but is clean. Contact us today to start on your way to a stink-free home!

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How to Remove Carpet Smells and Other Household Odors

Smelly carpet can happen to anyone. You spill something on your carpet or the kids bring home sweat-soaked athletic wear from their daily sports practice. Your pet’s unfortunate accident. A leak in your home causes a stain on your carpet. Smelly carpet can also be caused by humidity in an area of your home or crawlspace that is virtually unseen.

No matter the cause, carpet stains and odor are unfortunate and inevitable facts of home ownership. It’s common to seek do-it-yourself remedies for carpet stains and damage. But proper treatment is critical in addressing the odor that can be left behind. When left untreated, carpet and other smelly odors can become very difficult to eliminate. Learn how to treat carpet odor and have your home smelling like new again.

Eliminate Carpet Odors at the Source

The first step to treating carpet odor is to identify what’s causing it. Carpet is a warm “welcome home,” but it requires care and maintenance. Carpet that isn’t properly cleaned can become an odor magnet, harboring everything that has been brought across it. If you think of everyone and everything that walks across your carpet, it’s not hard to imagine why it might develop odor problems. Carpet odor is the result of what’s in and has soaked below your carpet. Carpet odor can be caused by pets, human foot traffic, food, soil, and the general dust and debris we bring into our homes on our shoes and feet.

Once you’ve properly diagnosed the source of what’s causing your carpet odor, it’s time to clean your carpets and treat the odor. It’s important to ensure the cleaning and odor treatment you select will also address the carpet pad and underlay. This area below your actual carpet can hold excess moisture and cause additional odors if not cleaned properly. It can be hard to know if your carpet odor is coming from the pad and underlay without the help of a professional carpet cleaning company.

Knock Out Cooking, Sport, Air Odor Smells

Cooking fish for family dinner or using certain seasonings can cause strong odors to linger in the air. Your children come home from a long and hard practice and leave their stinky socks and clothes on a rug, carpet, chair, or anywhere they choose. Over time odors can start getting into your carpets, walls, furniture, and cabinets.  To completely remove these orders, you will need to wipe down everything with a cleaning product that is specially made for your wood furniture and cabinets.

A professional carpet cleaning company like Sams will clean your carpets, area rugs, and upholstered furniture deep down to remove these odors. For air orders, Sams also specializes in processes using odorized equipment to filter and clean the air.

Cut Through Smoke Smells

Maybe your uncle smoked a cigar in your home while visiting, though you kindly asked him not to. Or you had a small accident with a fireplace when you forgot to open the flute. Smoke from either of these can cause lingering odors and you will need to address them right away. If the smoke damaged the walls, you need to clean them. Depending upon how bad it is, you might need to use an oil-based paint to cover the smoke film on the wall. To completely remove smoke smells and residue from carpet, upholstered furniture, and area rugs, contact the professionals Sams Carpet Cleaning & Repairs. Sams can evaluate the situation and give you an appropriate plan of action.

The Most Effective Solution: Professional Carpet Cleaning

A quick online search will reveal plenty of do-it-yourself solutions for home odors, but be careful. Always test a small portion before going all out. Sometimes DIY solutions can cause even more damage.

The best remedy for many household odors is a call to Sams Carpet Cleaning and Repairs, the St. Louis area’s most trusted provider of carpet cleaning and odor removal services. Our professionally trained technicians use the latest technology and equipment available to treat your carpet odor at the source. Sams Carpet Cleaning and Repairs will assess your carpet, area rugs, and upholstery prior to beginning work to ensure we’ve identified the proper solution for your odor problem. In addition to treating carpet odors, we’re also equipped with odorized machines to purify and eliminate odors from the air in your home.

Your home is your refuge. It’s where you land at the end of a long day. Don’t let odors make your home an unpleasant place to be. Contact Sams Carpet Cleaning and Repairs today for a free estimate and assessment for those stubborn odors you simply can’t treat yourself. Sams Carpet Cleaning and Repairs is locally owned and operated in St. Louis and we’ll treat your home as if it were our own.

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