Ozone Odor

[Shane T]

Potential customer called wanting me to clean a mattress. While having some outside work done on his house they found some bad insulation and siding in the area of the bedroom, so after it was all removed he rented an ozone unit and ran it in the bedroom. Now a week later and after ventilating a lot he says the room still smells of ozone. He has also removed the mattress and carpeting. Any suggestions?

 

[Desk Jockey]

LOL

Wow he must have pounded it with Ozone.
Ozone is a great deodorizer but doesn't penetrate very well. This dude must have really hit it hard.

How to get rid of it? Air exchange is the fastest, easiest and cheapest. Just guessing but I'm beting he just opened windows and ran a box fan. Good idea had the Ozone generator simply run a few hours.

He is going to have to get more aggressive with air movent. Particularly in areas where there is little air movement to begin with.

Ozone gas is unstable and will revert back to O2 if allowed to do so. Axial fans, Airpath or plain airmovers will all speed the exchange.

Activated charcoal would also work but is more passive and would still require air movement.

An airscubber with an Odorklenz cartridge would also work well. Get the one specific for gasses.

Good luck!

 

[Old Coastie]

One other thing: Ozone is highly reactive and can create strong odors with some things. Sniff around and see if any object (often plastic) is giving off a pungent odor. Remove it and see if it helps.

 

[Shane T]

Thanks guys, I'll go check it out tomorrow.

 

[GeneMiller]

no way ozone is still there. its an unstable molecule and dissipates in about 30 minutes in most cases. beside ozone is a nice clean smell.

 

[grizzley]

Some folks find the odor of ozone offensive......In these instances, www.noia.org sells a product that actually neutralizes the ozone odor completely.....Its nothing but a product that you fog after the ozone treatment.......For an extra charge......but does work amazingly well...Most fogging products just mask the ozone smell and after a day you can still get hints of the odor.

 

[Desk Jockey]

no way ozone is still there. its an unstable molecule and dissipates in about 30 minutes in most cases. beside ozone is a nice clean smell.

Normally it does but when trapped with no air movement I've seen it last for days even weeks in clothing or other soft goods.

Its smells a bit like chlorine. Some associate that with "clean" other witb a "chemical odor".

 

[Desk Jockey]

Some folks find the odor of ozone offensive......In these instances, www.noia.org sells a product that actually neutralizes the ozone odor completely.....Its nothing but a product that you fog after the ozone treatment.......For an extra charge......but does work amazingly well...Most fogging products just mask the ozone smell and after a day you can still get hints of the odor.

I'd have some reservation fogging a chemical into the living space when they are already having an issue with another odor.

I'm not questioning the efficacy of the product, I just feel in an instance where there may be heightened awareness of chemicals, I don't care to introduce another one.

 

[grizzley]

The ozone neutralizer from NOAI.org
is odorless.......

 

[Desk Jockey]

Gotcha.

I'm still not fogging anything else into the air space. People have a way of becoming litigious when circumstances don't go their way.

 

[Old Coastie]

I just found a 15-year-old cigar. Should I smoke it, or keep it in the glass tube?

Okay, it isn't off-topic. It'll stink real bad.

 

[Desk Jockey]

Smoke it. You can always regret it later.

 

[Nate The Great]

Smoke it. You can always regret it later.

I'd apply the same principles to women, easy come, easy go......

 

[Desk Jockey]

I'd apply the same principles to women, easy come, easy go......

Maybe for you! Most of us are not so lucky young man!

I have to set mself on fire just to get them to look my way. The nice thing...they say the burns should heal and leave no scars.