My State (Maryland) going smoke free feb 1. I've been hitting up some commercial places that have smokers with the idea of getting rid of the smoke smell. I pretty much use relisit and punch. Will these products encapsulate the smoke odors or should I use something else, and does the carpet need flushing to do this ( would rather cimex/relisit on everything that I can).

Bill Y.

Smoke has very small micron makeup and is difficult to remove. I have found that Ozone works the best for us. Those of you that are old enough to remember Ed York, he came up with a ozone machine attached to the solution tank and a tube from it ran into the solution tank of a Cimex. It was made by Workmaster and I remember selling it to Jeff Brown from Alabama. What ever happened to Jeff anyways? I was never convinced that it deodorized the carpet that well. Cleaning the carpet and running an Ozone machine in the area you were working on for a couple of days seemed to do the trick. Some times I would place the Ozone machine in a return air duct on commercial bldgs. I could go on and on about the sucess we have had with smoke and Ozone. And no it won't hurt you.

Lot of the stink will be in the ceilings, fabric chairs and drapes. I have one of those Ed York thingys works so so but not like Ozone.

Tony, I guess you, I and Shorty are the old timers around here.

pissy old farts!

Ray, just make sure that young whippersnapper pays for his lunch if he ever shows his snotty, freckled face in your neck of the woods looking for wisdom.

i had one. red tool box and it made alot of foam!!! we used em on our Cimexs when i worked for Everclean in Atlanta back in 94'-2000!

Flamin' old fogey !!!!!!

A word of caution, don't ozone if anything is wet.

Unless of course you want a bit of bleaching or corrosion.

But yep, the oldies have it right

Cheers,

Shorty.

I've seen the light, and changed my wicked ways.
www.get.shorty.com.au


PS ::: Ray already knows, lunch is on me at Subway, or in Olde English, "I'm paying for the nosh"

I took an IICRC course on oder removal. Forgot dang near all of it too. But, I do recall there being a bit more to real smoke smell removal.

At least....as was taught

Can an decent ozone machine perform this job well enough?

Bill,

Check out the major chemical suppliers and see what they have to offer on smoke which is used on restoration jobs.
S/M use to have a product called Odor-Go, which we poured into our cleaning solution and extracted. Some smokey smelling fabrics will require mora than 1 cleaning. Whether you use an encap product or not, I would suggest that you still would have to extract.