Content:
- Airing
- Air purification by traditional methods
- Technical aids
- Odor scavengers
- Aromatization
The question of how to get rid of the smell of paint in an apartment occurs immediately after the finishing works or cosmetic repairs. After all, living wherever the "fragrances" of paint and varnish materials are carried out are both unpleasant and harmful to health. To cope with this problem, you can apply proven folk methods or take advantage of modern technologies. Both technical devices and traditional methods are of two types - those that help get rid of harmful substances in the apartment air, and those that simply mask the smells of these substances.
Airing
The most common method of getting rid of odors left after painting is airing. Circulation is also necessary for faster drying of the paint coat, so you need to organize it immediately after the work. The simplest method is to open windows that are facing each other to make a draft. You can open one window and turn on the fan.
If oil or enamel paint is used, under active ventilation, at least 3 days must pass before the room can be used for sleeping or for a long time. Water-dispersive, including acrylic, paints dry out much earlier and much more actively, and therefore, they also give away "fragrances" faster, which weathered in just a day.
Air purification by traditional methods
If you need not just mask the heavy smell after painting, and make the air in the room clean, you can use the following tools:
- activated charcoal;
- candles( conventional, non-aromatic);
- several large pieces of fabric, such as a sheet;
- coffee.
Activated granular coal must be decomposed into several containers and placed indoors. Normal, non-activated, charcoal can not cope with the task of cleaning the air, it has too large pores. They will be filled with moisture, and microcracks of granular activated carbon will trap harmful substances in the gaseous state.
Council
Coal can be activated at home, however, its efficiency will still be several times lower than that produced industrially.
Candles literally burn out harmful substances - volatile compounds that evaporate during the drying of the paint. Of course, it is best to use natural wax candles, but paraffin waxes are also suitable. You just need to light a few pieces in the room for two or three hours. At the same time, we must not forget that oxygen is burnt along with harmful substances, so after this procedure, ventilation is mandatory.
Ground coffee also absorbs bad odors. If the task is to remove the ambre of paint, then such a natural air freshener will be very handy. You just need to lay out the ground, and preferably freshly ground, coffee in small containers and place in different places. After a day, the coffee should be changed to fresh, and the old one should be discarded, since it can not be brewed and drunk.
After repair, wet pieces of fabric can be weighed in the room - they become filters for harmful compounds in the gaseous state. They periodically need to be removed and rinsed, then again hung out. This is a fairly effective method, which is useful if you need to quickly clean the air, and airing for some reason is impossible.
air cleaning workflow
technical devices Now the industry offers different types of air purifiers, but not all of them can remove odor after staining. The most effective are photocatalytic and filter cleaners, as well as air washes. Filter devices pass air through coal or HEPA filters, which catch toxins( devices from BORK, IQAir, etc.).
Photocatalytic action is based on photocatalysis: toxic substances, including volatile compounds, are oxidized and decomposed. However, the latter have a significant drawback. For effective operation, the area of filter devices should be a total of several m².That is, they do not provide cleaning of the area declared by the manufacturer. An example of such equipment is the Fresh Air Box cleaner.
Air cleaners are devices with a distinctive water filter. Toxic particles settle on wet discs and are already washed off from them into a container of water. Another type of these devices removes the smell of paint by hydrofiltration of air: the polluted air passes through the dispersed zone, where it is purified. There are many manufacturers of this equipment, among them Air-O-Swiss, Venta, BORK.
Odor scavengers
The effect of odor absorbers is based on the adsorption of "fragrant" substances. Such products are available in the form of aerosols that need to be sprayed indoors, or in the form of a gel in a glass or plastic container, which must be installed in places with an unpleasant odor. These devices have proven to be good, they do cope with various heavy odors, including the smell of paint.
Their main disadvantage is that the devices are designed to absorb gaseous substances in a small area. In addition, manufacturers do not indicate which area they are designed for. But if we take as a basis that a container with 50-70 ml of gel is designed for a car salon, then for a room up to 20 m² with a large painted area it will take at least 10 such containers. Another danger - under the guise of sinks, sometimes sell flavors, which is not the same thing.
Flavoring
If there is a residual faint odor left in the room after repair and ventilation, it can be removed with aromatics. Suitable aromatic candles or roasted coffee. A good way is to spread out a fresh peel of orange or lemon and periodically replace it with fresh.
Another interesting way to disguise the ambre of paints is to make an orange pomander. True, this will have to be taken care of in advance, at least two weeks before painting.
This fragrant ball is made as follows:
- orange is punctured with a sharp object;
- is rubbed with spices - ground cinnamon and anise;
- whole pendant buds are pinned into the punctured holes;
- the ball is put in a dark place for two weeks;
- is tied with a ribbon.
Such a fragrant ball gives a spicy-citrus fragrance for 5-6 months. This set of spices is not final, everyone can add or remove some ingredient according to their preferences.
The above tips will help get rid of the smell and clean the air in the apartment from the toxins that appear when the paint dries. In addition, these methods can be used to constantly maintain an atmosphere of freshness in the room.
