avatamsaka wrote:
I will get to the point: I did further research after reading this forum and another forum, and further research and I decided to try something and IT WORKED. It's been a month and the smell is still GONE.
So, I wanted to share it with you all here.
I decided to spray the entire apartment - every single wall and in every closet - with hydrogen peroxide, to kill the bacteria. Then, after letting it dry over night, I wiped down every single wall again with hydrogen peroxide (literally dipped the mop into 100% H2O2).
wonderwall wrote:avatamsaka wrote:
I will get to the point: I did further research after reading this forum and another forum, and further research and I decided to try something and IT WORKED. It's been a month and the smell is still GONE.
So, I wanted to share it with you all here.
I decided to spray the entire apartment - every single wall and in every closet - with hydrogen peroxide, to kill the bacteria. Then, after letting it dry over night, I wiped down every single wall again with hydrogen peroxide (literally dipped the mop into 100% H2O2).
I decided to try this Monday afternoon after my walls smelled just weird after painting them They didn't exactly smell sour or of rot like many described here, but had an indescribable waft that didn't let up, and it wasn't paint smell. Some have said their walls smelled gaseous, but I have never had gas heating or a gas cooker so I don't know what gas (or its additive) smells like either.
I only did the first step of spraying the walls, didn't do the second round of wiping the walls down with H2O2.
Sadly, it didn't really help in my case. Now, Wednesday morning, the whole room smells really strongly of something else, a little chemically or like chlorine. Since most info says that H2O2 destroys odours and doesn't really smell of anything I'm stumped. I have only found some sources that say it might smell like ozone, because of the oxidisation process releasing oxygen - having never smelled ozone, I have no idea if that is what I'm smelling now.
Certainly seems to be reacting with the wall/paint, but not in the brilliant odour destroying way I had hoped :/ Opening the windows helps, but as soon as I close them it starts smelling like someone used a really strong cleaning product again. I have no clue about chemistry, so no idea what could be going on there. I didn't really anticipate this after basically every source said H2O2 was odourless and destroyed odours.
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