Oh, home smells! At the mere thought that your guests can smell something, you are thrown into the heat and paint. Something is in your house again ... it smells. But on the other hand, smells are necessary. After all, this is a quick notification system that some problems have appeared. So, about how to eliminate the unpleasant smell in the house and at the same time not to miss the necessary information that he is carrying, and this small article tells.
What is actually the smell?
Smells are just molecules of substances that are capable of moving in the gaseous state with the current of air and getting to the olfactory receptors of the nose to cause certain sensations. Some substances produce such an amount of volatile molecules that their concentration in the air reaches that olfactory threshold, when the smell can be identified as a stench or the opposite is a fragrance. That is, the sensations of "stench" or "aroma" always carry a certain emotion. "However, this does not mean that a smell with a good" evaluation "is more beneficial to the body than the one that causes a grimace of disgust on the face," said Richard Shonesi, Ph.D., director of the "Air for Home" program at the University of Tulsa (Oklahoma , USA). Indeed, many pleasant odors used, for example, in air fresheners, are a concentrate of toxic substances in aerosol form. Better solution for those who certainly want to eliminate all the unpleasant smells in the house is to make sure that smells ... nothing. Only freshness and clean air!
How to ventilate.
In fact, most odor problems are due to poor ventilation in the room or inability to ventilate. Billions of odorant molecules not only float flamboyingly in the air, but also settle on objects and surfaces. At the same time, the smell is "eaten up" into everything around and it will be much harder to cope with it in the future. To avoid such a dysfunctional perspective, it is necessary to regularly maintain the circulation of air masses inside the apartment, not allowing boring molecules to sit in one place. To do this, you only need to do the following 15 minutes a day:
- Open the windows. It would seem that it's much easier, but there are also secrets. A simple opening of the vent window often does not give the expected effect. In order to create a semblance of supply and exhaust ventilation, it is necessary to separate air flows with different temperatures. This means that colder air must enter the room through a window open at the bottom. In this case, the upper warm layers will easily escape through the open upper transom. In this simple way, you can create a good "traction". This useful draft can in a matter of minutes eliminate the unpleasant odors in the house. The greatest effect is achieved in this case, when the open windows are opposite each other;
- Conditioners. Now many modern air-conditioning devices are also equipped with filters for cleaning it. The best solution at the same time is HEPA (High Efficiency Particle Absorption) -filters. Despite the difficult foreign name, the word HEPA means only "highly effective and fine cleaning". Disposable HEPA filters consist of assembled to increase the area in accordion of fibrous paper or fiberglass, and washable from fluoroplastic. All particles up to 0.3 microns are retained, which is extremely important for people suffering from asthma and many other bronchopulmonary diseases. It is these tiny dust particles that sometimes cause attacks of hay fever and an allergic rhinitis. Conditioners with a "fine filter", with proper installation and operation, are able to hold up to 99.97% of volatile potentially pathogenic agent particles. It's fantastic! "To prevent an unpleasant smell in the house, do not force the air conditioner to work, it should work in the" on low "mode, that is, at low revs," says Tim Ryan, a professor of environmental health at Ohio University. "In addition, you need to wash or change filters in time." The following is happening: molecules that can exhale an odor, as a rule, move through the air not freely, but attach to the smallest particles of dust. Thus, getting rid of the visible pollution of the light, you can eliminate in the house and unpleasant smells for you. Air conditioners without HEPA filters, of course, also help to clean the air in the apartment, but, unfortunately, not so effective. In any case, this is better than nothing;
- Fans. The use of special devices for moving air around the house, the variety of which currently does not know any boundaries, is justified only if the conditions described above are met. Keep in mind that, as a rule, fans have a polarity, that is, air is sucked from one side and thrown away from the other. It is very easy to determine this, it is enough to make passes with your hands around the device for ventilation. As you have probably guessed correctly, the device should be oriented so that the dirty air gets out of the window or onto the air intake of the air conditioner. Of course, simple mixing of odors with the help of a propeller suspended from the ceiling will not do anything.
How to get rid of kitchen odors.
So far we have only told how it is possible to remove polluted air from the room. Now let us turn to the root of the problem - the source of the unpleasant smell. The kitchen is a place that often attracts home with the flavors of your favorite dishes and delicacies. However, sometimes, a kitchen stench can permanently deprive the whole family of appetite. How to overcome the annoying stench, which exude a place for garbage, a stove, a refrigerator or a dishwasher?
- To discourage the smell of garbage stuck in the kitchen surface, splash on them, if possible, a glass of boiling water, and then wipe with citrus peel (peel of lemon or orange);
- If you do not like the "technical" smell of the refrigerator, which you can not get rid of even with the ideal cleanliness inside, there is nothing else to do but displace it with some pleasant scent. Usually, an aqueous solution of vanilla is used for this. Cotton ball, soaked in it, put in a small jar and installed in the lowest box. Instead of vanilla for fans of the most popular tonic beverage, ground coffee beans or coffee grounds are perfect;
- In order to prevent leakage of the slightest stench from under the lid of the garbage tank, recently one very useful know-how appeared. It is a question of coal filters, which in the form of sticks, are glued from the inside of the bucket. Such advanced odor absorbers are restored by simply placing them for a while under direct sunlight;
- The dishwasher rarely exudes any "scents", but if it is, then once again run it idling without adding detergents. At the same time, the resulting powerful jets of water will wash away all food residues and pollution. If the smell persists, you will have to drain all the water and, step by step, wash and dry all parts and the bottom of the dishwasher, on which the sources of stench could remain;
- Before you turn on the stove, open the hood above it first. Even small amounts of gas that has not been disposed of can cause significant harm to health, especially to children. Also, the hood must be cleaned regularly, for which it is necessary to bend the "ears", which fix the ventilation bell.
Although, it is possible to talk about the realm of smells indefinitely, all the same there is a hope that the information set forth above will help you at least in an unequal struggle with the most unpleasant of them.
Based on the materials of the Internet resource "Woman'sDay"