How to remove an unpleasant smell in an apartment at home?

The fragrance that reigns in your home is no less important than beautiful furniture and stylish wallpaper. From the smell of fresh borscht or pies from your apartment, saliva begins to flow even in the neighbors, and the smell of freshness and purity will make it clear to an occasional guest that happy and successful people who care for their well-being live in your house. But what if the apartment smells completely different than what you would like, and no airing does not help? How to remove the unpleasant smell in an apartment at home, without recruiting a cleaning company, you will now find out.

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Where did the smell come from?

Before you remove the smell in the apartment, you need to understand its nature and determine where it came from. Most often housewives have to deal with smells:

• animals;
• chemicals;
• burnt food;
• cigarettes;
• with a specific "toilet" ambre;
• mold in the bathroom and in the kitchen;
• mustiness from old furniture and stale tissues.

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Investigate the apartment

Before removing the unpleasant smell in the apartment at home, it is necessary to put some order and to audit the possible places for the appearance of doubtful flavors. Maybe you do not need to use special tools, it will be enough just to remove the source of smell and to ventilate the apartment well.

Proceed according to plan, not forgetting any tricky places listed below:

1. Look in the garbage bag.
2. Survey the places that your cat or dog likes to visit most.
3. See if there are any cigarette butts remaining in the ashtray and whether it is well washed.
4. Open the refrigerator - there may be something messed up.
5. Take a look in the oven and microwave.
6. Inspect all kinds of sponges and rags - for washing floors or dishes.
7. Look at the ventilation holes.
8. Make sure that the sewer is not clogged.
9. Inspect the upholstered furniture and carpets carefully.

Important! It may very well be that the source of the smell is not at all in your apartment. If you can not install it, call a plumber or a master from the Housing Office to check the ventilation and sewerage.

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Odor in the bathroom and toilet

With this problem, even the most accurate mistresses sometimes have to face. If the sewer system is in order, you will not be able to cope with it, and you will find the funds at home or at the nearest pharmacy. You need:

• activated carbon;
• coffee beans;
• aromatic oil - pine, lavender or other.
  

Option 1

Excellent absorbent - activated carbon. It has the property of collecting not only harmful substances, but also extraneous smells:

1. If you have a separate bathroom, a toilet of a small area will need 2 packs of 10 tablets.
2. On the tub, respectively, 4 packs.
3. If the bathroom is combined, four packages will be enough.

Important! Spread the tablets of activated charcoal in places that are not conspicuous( under a bath or under a toilet, for example).Soon there will be no trace of smells. To unpleasant odors do not appear again, periodically, about once a week, change tablets.

Option 2

Coffee grinders "work" no worse than activated carbon. And if they are also put in beautiful cups, they will give your bathroom a refined look. Change them, like coal, you need once a week.

Important! They will not only take away the nasty smells, but they themselves smell very nice.

Option 3

In this case, to remove the unpleasant smell in the apartment at home, nothing to decompose is not necessary. It is enough during cleaning to wipe all surfaces in the bathroom and toilet with the own prepared solution:

1. Take a glass of apple or other food vinegar.
2. Add a few drops of essential oil to it.
3. Wipe all surfaces in the bathroom and toilet with this solution.

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Kitchen "fragrances"

The most fragrant place in the apartment, of course, is the kitchen. However, not all the smells that there periodically arise, will please your household members and arouse their appetite. For example, you have to periodically remove the smell from the oven or microwave.

Remove the smell from the oven

A lot of time it does not take. You need:

• medium-sized saucepan without lid;
• water;
• about half an hour of free time.
  

How to use to remove odor in the apartment:

1. Put in water and put it in the oven.
2. Thermostat set to maximum.
3. Bring water to a boil and simmer for ten minutes.

The smell will disappear.

Important! If there are dry orange or lemon crusts, for more effect, you can add them to the water before boiling it. Then, at least a day, the unobtrusive pleasant fruity aroma will hang around the house.

Smells in the microwave

Cooking in the microwave, although it is considered the cleanest way, but there can be trouble with it. For example, if someone from your household has a habit of warming up food without using a special container. Time after time on walls there is almost imperceptible touch, and then and a smell of burning. There are several ways to remove the unpleasant smell in the apartment from the microwave, and which one to use depends on how much time you have.

Option 1

If time is not very much, it is better to start to make coffee for yourself. You will enjoy the drink, and the coffee grounds will be an excellent means of removing the unpleasant odor. Spread the microwave wall with the coffee grounds, then rinse. And the microwave is clean, and there's no smell.

Option 2

If you can tolerate and do not use the microwave for three hours, a minty toothpaste that you can buy in many shops will help you. The cheapest is suitable:

1. Spread the walls of the microwave with it.
2. Leave for three hours.
3. Then rinse.
   

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If the smell of burning is caused by the "fault" of the electric cooker, it is also better to quickly understand this:

1. Pour a layer of table salt on the burner.
2. Close it all with a damp cloth.
3. Wait for half an hour.
4. Wipe the cooker.

What to do with the refrigerator?

The most vulnerable place in the kitchen, perhaps, is a refrigerator. Especially if you are in the habit of stuffing it to the brim. The smells of stale, and even spoiled, products occur quite often - as a result, even fresh products sometimes start to smell so that they do not feel like eating.

If you suffered such an attack - thoroughly clean the refrigerator. Do not skip any shelves or sections. Of course, the products will also have to be sorted out. And to once and for all get rid of this problem, do the following:

1. Empty the tea bag from the tea leaves.
2. Grind pieces of five activated carbon tablets.
3. Put the powder in the sachet.
4. Seal the bag and hang it in the center of the refrigerator.

Important! To smell does not arise, to wash the refrigerator is best with a solution of baking soda and lemon juice.

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Smell of cigarettes - how to get rid?

The tobacco smell, especially stagnant, is extremely unpleasant, even for those who smoke, not to mention non-smoking family members. But getting rid of it is not so difficult. We need to hang in different places of the apartment( first of all, where they smoke) wet cotton towels. They perfectly absorb the smell of nicotine.

By the way, with the help of towels can remove the unpleasant smell in the apartment at home, not only from the air, but also from clothes that can also be a source of uncomfortable amber in the apartment:

1. Turn the jacket inside out.
2. Place it on a table or on the floor.
3. Top with a large wet towel or sheet.
4. Wait until the towel has dried.
5. Dry your clothes.

Important! After all the manipulations with towels, the apartment needs to be ventilated.

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If the house smells like a pharmacy

Even if the apartment has a person who constantly takes medication, there should not be any hospital smell. As, however, and other technical or chemical odors. The shop spray here will not help, nor any other aromatic remedy.

The best option to eliminate the unpleasant odor in the apartment is to buy a photocatalytic filter. He is able to save the apartment from all excess flavors. Such a filter operates around the clock and does not have any harmful impact on the household.

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Smell of old rags

A lot of trouble to the hostess can deliver a musty smell. It comes from soft furniture, old clothes, deposits of fabrics. From excess clothing and cuts, from which "somebody will someday do something," you need to get rid of it in a timely manner. Go over your cabinets and throw out all that is superfluous. Nobody will notice that unnecessary things, to which you will never get your hands, have disappeared from the apartment, and the air will become much clearer.

In addition, on the shelves with linens should always be the perfect order. To avoid the smell of mustiness or dampness, the laundry should be thoroughly ironed.

Important! On the shelves you can put small bags of lavender or other substance, the smell of which you are pleasant.

But there are items that can not be thrown away, but they smell of mustiness. A household ozone generator can help you. He will not only save your favorite couch from an unpleasant smell, but also will refresh the air in the entire apartment.

Important! Ozonator can not work more than half an hour, so it must be turned off in time.

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Should I use shop fresheners?

Of course, if you like some flavor and you want it to constantly dominate your home - you can buy such a freshener. But one must not forget that any air freshener does not remove an unpleasant smell, it introduces another flavor. And if you sprinkle a freshener in the apartment, without removing the previously stink, which you are so worried about, the result may be very unexpected.

Therefore, always follow the rule - first in the house must appear a smell of freshness and purity, and then you can already slightly improve it with the aroma of your favorite flowers. Removal of odors in the apartment gives positive results only when the conditions for their appearance are eliminated.