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Has anyone ever herd of ironization? A regular customer called me to tell me that the carpet still has a pet smell to it & the renters want to have the carpet ironized. Anyone?
I think someone is blowing smoke up your potential clients yee haw. I’ve never heard of it. Some of the weathered veterans of carpet care may be able to weigh in on this one, but sorry I couldn’t help you more. Good luck and God Bless.
Mike Nowlin
PS– Tell the customer that little fluffy has to stay outside for no more pet stains and smells, otherwise it defeats the purpose but some people are finiky about their animals. I just think it’s funny when I’ve cleaned the carpet for 3 hours trying to get the stain and smell and here comes little fluffy, peeing on my shoe and the carpet at the same time.
I think they meant “Ionize”, which would mean an ionizer or similarly an ozone machine if memory serves me correct (and it often doesn’t). Many flood and fire restoration companies have these and use them for smoke damage. They help remove odor out of the air, but if the source of the odor (see urine in pad/subfloor) is still there, I would think they would only be a temporary fix. Do a search on the web for these and you should be able to get more accurate info. Just an FYI, if you don’t know what you’re doing with an ozone machine or an ionizer and turn them up higher than they need to be, you can make the air qualiity worse, or so I am told. Happy hunting.
When I looked in to an ozone machine 15 or so years ago, there was on it a warning that said “If this machine is not used properly it can result in causing cancer”. Or something to that effect. That was enough for me. I want to live long enough to enjoy my unborn grandchildren and children as well. There are two ways to use the ozone. (the right way and the wrong way, ha) They both create a mist, one water based, the other oil based. Oil based works better, until you have to clean and remove the oil. For these reasons I past on the ozone machine. I hope this helps.
THe Ozone machine is very complicated to explain , but here it goes. It electricaly charges the oxygen that is in the air and splits the oxygen molecule. Once a molecule is split it becomes unstable. In turn it will attatch itself to something else. if you have a bad odor you can change the moleculare structue by adding an extra oxygen to it. I have never heard of any that spray a liquid . A true ozone is plugged in and left. These are simple, easy, makes lots of money, and by the way can be deadly if used impropper. Once the oxygen is split the becomes and attatches else where it leaves no oxygen for us to breath. That is why no one can enter in to the room, while ozone is in process. Once you are done open up some windows and doors and give it five minutes.
This is such a small over view on ozone but I hope it helps.
Going back to the original post you need to get rid of the urine in the carpet and pad before you do anything. A wise man told me once ” you have to remove the skunk before you can remove the smell”.Greg is 100% correct. There is an OSHA limit for ozone, but it, to my knowledge cannot cause cancer, but can cause respiratory distress in high concentrations…
At this moment, I have a machine running in a rental house to help eliminate the “dog” odor. If a home has drapes and drop ceilings and any wallpaper, odors stick to them very well…ozone removes or eliminates the odors. I have been using my machine very successfully to remove cat urine odor in a concrete basement floor and cigarette odors as well as other animal odors, like ferrets and birds.
I charge $35/24 hr period and making money as I do something else. I “soak” a house and let it fill with ozone permeating everything. Return, after a minumum or 2 days, sometimes 3-4, remove machine and open windows and let air out for 5-15 minutes…
By the way Gordon, if you have a concern about health hazards with chemicals…be very careful with the dry solvent. Being 75% trichloroethylene it is not a great chemical to use in anyone’s home at any time! OSHA and EPA and especially CalOSHA have studied it extensively and if used should be used sparingly and with all precautions. An EPA reference that might be helpful is : http://www.epa.gov/ttn/atw/hlthef/tri-ethy.html
Personally, I believe that anyone using it in anyone;s home where they are living, not empty, should have their head examined! The damage it can cause if spilled or leaked in any home could be terible for kids or animals or pregnant females…
From an ex-OSHA inspector (Industrial Hygienist)…left because I could not stand being a cop, but I do respect the science and data.
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