Odor Removal
What is it?
Your vehicle stinks! In all seriousness, I have to know why it stinks?
Odor can be tricky! If I know where the odor is coming from I can make the proper recommendations. Smoke Odor needs to be treated differently than just stale air smell. Also having everything, and I mean everything, must be clean and dried before the proper treatments begin! Tackling the odor at its source and ensuring that it won't return again is my biggest priority. Know that I am not masking the smell with some perfume scents but eliminating the odor!
Coming up in the information below we'll talk about the proper steps to cleaning and disinfecting your vehicle, time, tools and materials used to successfully remove odor from your car. If you feel that you've received enough information to entrust me with your vehicle and you want to book now!
1 Step at a time!
First step to making sure the odor doesn't come back is making sure that odor does not get reintroduced into your vehicle's environment anymore. This means if you have smoke odors, you wont smoke in your vehicle anymore! Sounds crazy that I shouldn't have to say that, but some peoples kids! This also means changing the cabin air filter of the vehicle after cleaning. Dirty cabin air filters can reintroduce the smell and cause it to smell again.
2nd step is detail and sterilize everything to bring that environment to new! This means scrubbing plastics and vinyls, then steaming and removing all excess moisture from the door panel. Then applying odor eliminator cleaner on all plastics and vinyls, carpets, fabric and leather seats. This also means seatbelts and headliner which traditionally don't get cleaned due to the sensitivity to moisture. We are also using the odor removal in our cleaning solution in our hot water extraction machine, the Mytee 8070. Using hot water, great vacuum suction, and extra drying passes, ensures a clean dry process.
3rd step ensures that the fabrics and floors are absolutely dry. Excess moisture can postpone the odor removal process. To make sure that it's dry we use high-speed fans as we work to quickly dry.
4th step is using a ozone machine. An ozone generator, or ozone machine, is a device that converts oxygen from various sources such as ambient air, dry air, or concentrated oxygen into ozone. Ozone generators produce ozone (O3) by adding energy to oxygen molecules (O2), which causes the oxygen atoms to part ways and temporarily recombine with other oxygen molecules. Ozone that has not reacted with other molecules will decompose into oxygen over time. Ozonation destroys odors, and disinfects air, water, and other materials. It has even been approved by the USDA and FDA for use on food. There is some controversy on ozone machines. Some people believe they degrade plastics and vinyls overtime, but no serious claims have been found to prove these claims true.
4a. Alternatively I offer Odor Doc Permanent Odor Elimination Kit by P&S. ODOR DOC Odor Elimination Kit is a powerful and effective solution for eliminating stubborn odors in enclosed spaces, including odors caused by bacteria, mold, mildew, smoke, and more. It uses a quick-release vapor process that utilizes the most powerful chlorine dioxide gas technology available to penetrate and treat the affected areas. The broad-spectrum biocide product is released as a vapor and is safe, powerful, and effective. To use the ODOR DOC kit, make sure the interior of the vehicle is clean and dry, and then follow the treatment process, which takes about an hour. ODOR DOC is 8 times stronger than traditional chlorine dioxide treatments and is capable of destroying the toughest odors.
Odor Elimination Choices
With all those steps in mind Odor Elimination is not an easy task. It takes at least a full day for cleaning then another 4 hours to deploy either the Ozone machine or the Odor Doc. We can continue to try each method until we get the odor out. If you would like to see a video of the service click here.