This article concerns home improving and it will explain on different manners what it can be done to get rid of unpleasant odor from your apartment. This depends a lot on where the apartments it is situated, its construction and interior decoration, how many persons live in it, on your cooling/heating system, on how often you use to clean your apartment. Even with daily cleaning, an unpleasant smell can persist, and this means that something is not okay. Unless someone is not deliberately throwing garbage into your apartment.

What exactly causes the air pollution? This precise term is understood as any chemical, biological contamination of the air inside buildings and constructions. This phenomena appears in highly industrialized, developed countries and is due to the internal economic activity. This contamination can have natural causes or can be caused by people.

The first advice is to air the rooms daily, by opening the windows or by using also an air purifier. The most well-known air purifiers are: ozone particles, negative ion, carbon or charcoal, zeolite, electrostatic plates.

Another ingredient considered to be fit for such an operation is vinegar. It is also necessary to clean the walls and the carpet too. For carpets, the vacuum cleaner is recommended, but sodas also. Like walls, surfaces get dirty with residues which must be clean attentively. Other advisers recommend to replace the filters from the cooling/heating systems and the light bulb also.

Regarding the interior decoration are recommended the potted plants. The “leafy friends” are powerful filters and the filtration system is done naturally. Some of plants that people buy for such purposes are the following: orchids, palms (can remove benzene, formaldehyde, carbon monoxide), peace lilies (can remove methyl, acetone, ethyl, benzene, xylene), ferns (can remove xylene and toulene), schefflera, anthuriums, song of India, snake plant, English ivy, Pothos, massangeana cane, philodendrons, barberton daisy, weeping fig. Also, there are important the Eco-friendly ways of banishing indoor smells, like essential oils.

According to EPA (Environmental Protection Agency), there are other ways to avoid bad smells, like: limiting the actions, practices or use of products that cause problems; reducing exposure to such smells, that may cause problems for you or others; provide adequate ventilation. For the researchers of this association it is important to keep the indoor environments dry in order to prevent musty odors.

In similar cases, indoor humidity must be reduced, condensation must be prevented and also the potential for condensation; wet building and materials or furnishing must be clean and dry; any absorbent material must be removed.

And it is not only the bad smell, but this smell can be the result of a poisonous gas, or some other factor that can affect a person’s health. For example, the carbon monoxide is a poisonous gas that can cause nausea, headaches or longer term effects on someone’s health. 

As a conclusion, there have been exposed the real danger caused by a bad smell- its causes, sources, possible effects on health, as well as some solutions to such situations.