If you’ve scrubbed the walls of your home and cleaned all your furniture, but there’s still that foul cigarette smell in the air, then you might wonder what else you can do. While it may seems that you have cleaned everything extremely thoroughly, if you can still smell smoke, the most likely reason is that there is still cigarette smell in your carpets. Carpets are very intricate designs of fabrics weaving in and around each other. Because of this network of fibers, once an odor gets in them, it’s most likely there to stay for awhile, and can often take quite a bit of elbow grease to get it out.
The first thing you’ll want to do is clean your carpets very well. Give them a good vacuum and then use a carpet shampooing machine to give them a deep steam clean treatment. Once the carpets have been thoroughly cleaned, allow them to dry completely and then sprinkle baking soda over the entire surface. Allow the baking soda to sit for several hours and then vacuum it up. This will leave odor neutralizers in the carpet and will also catch any remaining cigarette smell in the carpet.
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It works very quickly, and will get you clean and fresh carpets in no time at all. Plus, it can also take a lot of the grunt work out for you if you don’t want to go to all the trouble of cleaning your products beforehand. Because chlorine dioxide works on all odor molecules, our Room Shocker will also attack the other odor molecules that you’d get rid of while vacuuming and shampooing! And, if you’re a smoker who wants to continue smoking in their home, without having to live with that smoke smell in your carpet, try our Room Shocker Time Release (http://www.biocidesystems.com/rs-tr-4pack.html)
