Smoke and soot and their associated odors hang around in the air long after a home fire is extinguished. Leaks and floods can cause a relentless mildew smell, and sewage backups are notorious for their foul stench. Tobacco smoke, pet urine, and other odors can be frustrating to remove without professional help.
Persistent, foul smells can be a nightmare to live with, but you can depend on Tip Top Restoration of Pasadena’s trusted team of experts to detect and remove odors from your home or business. We’ll freshen up your environment, allowing you to fully enjoy the beauty surrounding Pasadena.
From the city’s official logo to the annual Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena’s residents recognize the symbolism of Pasadena’s official flower, the rose. Millions know its iconic scent, even noted in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, “a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Odors in the home from fire damage, smoke, or water damage feel like a contradiction to the natural beauty surrounding Pasadena. Tip Top Restoration of Pasadena’s odor removal services aims to rectify this contradiction.
- Detecting and removing the source of the odor is the most important first step. Debris contaminated with odor-causing residue will continue to give off unpleasant smells. Removing as much of the odor source as possible speeds up the process to fully eliminate the foul smell.
- Surfaces are thoroughly cleaned in order to effectively deodorize them. Small particles of odor-producing residue can continue to generate odors if not properly removed.
- Deodorizers are distributed to surfaces in a similar manner to the original conditions which caused the odor penetration. For example, a deodorizing fog would be the most effective method to combat odors created by smoke and fire damage.
- Surfaces that are exposed to disagreeable odors are sealed. In some cases, sealing may be the solution to an odor problem.
Odors can result from airborne chemicals, gases, or physical particles. Once an odor’s source has been identified and removed, our technicians at Tip Top Restoration of Pasadena will implement a combination of deodorization techniques to ensure successful removal. The combination of processes and techniques can include:
- Pairing agents are chemicals that bind to odor particles. These agents can be humectant, highly absorptive, which causes odor particles to precipitate onto surfaces where they can be cleaned up; or they can be counteractant in which they change odor-causing properties or destroy them when they bind to odor particles.
- Filtration agents filter and collect odors. Absorption and adsorption are the different ways these filtration agents work to filter odor gases from air passing by or passing through the agent.
- Disinfectants and sanitizers kill odor-causing bacteria and fungi.
- Enzyme digesters are used to combat organic or protein-based odors by using enzymes to break down organic molecules. Many are familiar with their effectiveness against pet urine odors.
- Air purification filters use an electric grid to kill airborne microorganisms as they pass through.
- Ozone and hydroxyl generators produce ozone gas or hydroxyl radicals. When combined with oxygen, odors can be permanently destroyed by the oxidation process.
- Masking agents are high quality air fresheners that mask unpleasant odors while the full deodorization process takes place.
Depending on the source of the odor and its severity, removing an odor from the home can require anywhere from 1-3 treatments. The length of time needed for a treatment can range from 15 minutes to 2 hours, depending on the size of the area requiring treatment. The source of the odor must also be properly removed to ensure that the smell does not return.
Insurance claims for fire damage or sewage backups will typically cover odor removal. Many homeowners’ policies do not cover mold cleanup unless it occurs as a result of a covered peril, such as a water heater supply line bursting and leaving water throughout your home. Odors resulting from smoking cigarettes inside the home or pets having repeat accidents are generally not covered by insurance policies.
Tip Top Restoration of Pasadena’s dependable experts are available 24/7 for your odor removal needs. Whether the source is smoke or sewage, our team has seen it—smelled it—and restored it.
