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The Key To Eliminating Condo Hallway Smells And Odors
What is the key to eliminating condo hallway smells?
Clear and simple, it involves the dual use of highly-effective air freshener diffusers and a vaporous odor neutralizing additive called Metazene, both of which we manufacture.
These two combined will effectively eliminate any airborne odors in any enclosed space like condo hallways.
Read on to learn more about our air freshening and odor neutralizing systems or contact our team today to say bye-bye once and for all to condo hallways smells.
Apartment Hallways Smells Are Never Acceptable
While one man’s malodors may be another’s perfume, the smells of someone’s fish dinner wafting through condo corridors even days after it was eaten can be a consistent source of dispute between neighbors.
Apartment hallway smells are very democratic, albeit they have no party allegiance. Whether they arise from individual condo units or common areas, they are unpleasant for all those who live within the orbit of a shared space.
The solution can lie in prevention, but once these foul apartment smells run amuck, reinforcements are needed in the form of outside help provided by the ambient air-care products we manufacture.
In the words of Warner Lewis, an associate broker with Halstead Real Estate:
“When it comes to buying an apartment, some imperfections can be overlooked. But an overwhelming odor is a pretty material issue. It’s not like the paint color in the hallway was offensive.”
A condo purchaser becomes the owner of real property. The unit, which consists of the space between the walls, floors and ceilings, generally to the midpoint is assessed separately for tax purposes.
Taxes are paid either directly to the county assessor or via a lender’s impound account.
The money supports the maintenance of common areas, the building exterior, trash pickup and the provision of healthy indoor air, environmental odor-control and our air freshening products specifically designed for dumpsters and common facilities such as clubhouses, exercise rooms, swimming pools and spas.
What Are The Most Common Apartment Hallway Odors?
While this might sound like an old Rodney Dangerfield joke about his wife’s cooking, its true that there have been reports in at least one instance of some condo smells being so bad that they actually killed flies swarming in the hallway!
The following are the most commonly reported apartment hallway smells.
Cooking Odors
Cooking one’s own meals is about as unalienable a right as any condo owner could hope to espouse.
No statute can demand that he or she should or should not cook or what their menu should be.
Managing cooking smells and preventing them from spreading is the first course of action, which can often be as easy for condo services as replacing a broken fan over the stove, which prevents steam from causing water damage in the kitchen.
In addition, keeping suite doors always open not only prevents smell dispersion into hallways, it is also a fire code rule.
If the malodor concerns multiple units, the solution may lie with the ventilation system, which should be checked.
When properly structured, these networks push air under suite doors and directly into the units, which prevents smells from seeping out into the hall.
Smoking Odors
Despite what everyone knows about smoking and its negative impact on our health, many people still do smoke and for those who don’t, the smell is not only terrible and toxic but also can cause property damage.
The majority of condos have established smoking regulations that range from complete moratoriums to explicit statements where smoking is allowed on condo balconies.
Garbage Odors
A common complaint in condo buildings, locating the source of the smell is vital to eradicating it.
The next step is for the condo managers to discover whether their current system needs repair or adjustments, or if it’s a tenant-related issue.
Proper control of hallway trash lockers and sealed containers is vital to securing airtight odor emissions.
An efficient maintenance system can prevent costly damage to the trash chute, which if not properly functioning, can cause serious issues concerning allergens and bacteria, such as salmonella and e. Coli, that can thrive inside poorly maintained garbage chutes and trash rooms.
This is compounded by such conditions being considered as potential fire hazards, and/or the creation of a breeding ground for unwanted rodents and bugs.
Dumpsters situated too close to entrance ways or living areas can also be a source of apartment hallway smells, and potential condo buyers should always seek out property where dumpsters have a minimal impact on living quarters.
Tenant abuse of rules and regulations is a common cause for smelly garbage. A condo’s specific garbage policies should be well communicated to all residents.
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Odors From Leaks And Damages
Sometimes, condo odors can be indicators of major problems. Leaky pipes often result in pungent, moldy smells which are not only very unpleasant, but if left unchecked, can cause serious structural damage and become health hazards.
Black mold flourishes in damp conditions, and for an area of more than 10 feet, is best left to professionals to eradicate.
Condo owners beware, as the longer the leak continues, the larger it becomes.
Affected pipes may require replacing instead of repairing, and the damage increases exponentially with the size of the leak.
Addressing Malodorous Conditions Within Condos
Everyone who lives or works in a condo is involved, at least to some degree, in watching out for potentially problematic issues such as: foul odors emanating from dumpsters; trash rooms; common areas and yards.
The responsibilities of property managers to their residents includes the assurance of their health and well-being by providing a safe and healthy environment in which to live.
This means identifying poor air quality and toxic apartment hallway smells that could be caused by tobacco, pet waste, rotting food and/or those malodors associated with hoarding.
Maintaining consistently fresh scented air for the sake of residents is a property manager’s duty.
It’s a big job and those in charge should seek help from ambient air care specialists, particularly those that source the products we provide.
Why Companies Turn To Air-Scent International
We are a family-owned American manufacturer of ambient air-care systems and environmental hygiene products with clients that hail from all over the world and are engaged in every industry under the sun.
In the case of condos and HOA management associations, ambient air-care is focused on the elimination of environmental odors and the provision and maintenance of a healthy indoor air flow.
In the words of Raymond Czapko, Air-Scent’s VP of Business Development: “In addition to our innovative and effective scenting products, our on-site perfumery creates luxury, upscale fragrances that translate into more sales.”
A Few Of Our Most Effective Air Freshener Diffusers
The following represents some of our highly effective and favored diffusers, which serve both large and small spaces and can be adapted to combat tenacious apartment hallway smells.
These systems are designed to last a long time and they come in diverse sizes and strengths to accommodate businesses of all types.
The Aroma Beam
This free-standing dry vapor fragrance diffuser system is ideal for mid-to-large size hallways as well as other areas of up to 50,000 cubic feet.
Its convenience is unparalleled because it is app-controlled, comes with a built in 24-hour battery back-up, on/off timers, and is available in several configurations.
It features no-spill Scentsia refill cartridges that consistently combat apartment hallway smells and a myriad of scent experiences that can be altered for holidays, seasons or themes.
The Aroma One
The Aroma One Fan Air-Freshener is also self contained and both eliminates apartment hallway smells and offers superior, linear, aroma enrichment for smaller corridors.
Its many desirable features include: a contemporary design with optimal air flow; the capacity to hold diverse Air-Scent refill types, including bottles, liquid, can and Solid Square wafers; a superior air velocity fan blade and an easy conversion from operation via battery to electric, just name a few.
The Aroma Styler
This vapor mist Aroma Styler Diffuser has a feed that can go directly into affected corridors.
It is specifically designed for 3-way use in portable wall mounting and HVAC systems and is particularly effective for smells accumulating in large hallways.
An extremely versatile ambient air diffuser system, it is available in three different sizes.
These are: Gamma, which covers up to 63,000 cubic feet; Beta for areas up to 21,000 cubic feet and Alpha for spaces up to 10,500 cubic feet.
The fragrances created for The Aroma Styler are known world-wide and are customized to evoke diverse moods within any company’s desired consumer base.
Metazene – The Most Effective Vaporous Odor Neutralizer
There are many odor neutralizers in the modern marketplace, and even though they all serve to counteract malodors to some degree, they are all different and some work better than others.
None, however, work as well or better than Metazene.
The power of this colorless additive is manifold, but its true success depends on how it is applied.
Other neutralizers do not address the fact that the food, smoking and chemical odors that are so often responsible for apartment hallway smells can and do replenish themselves over time.
Air-Scent and our mother company, Alpha Aromatics, created this supremely effective and environmentally safe concentrate, which took many years to develop and perfect.
The finished product had to be pure and stable, requiring highly detailed, scientific research and experimentation.
Metazene is a dual action, colorless additive that attacks and neutralizes malodors at a molecular level. Chemicals merge with foul odor molecules, which linger in the air and are lighter in weight.
This bonding alters their electron configurations and negates their properties via a series of chemical processes that include: hydrogen bonding, atom formation (adsorption) and encapsulation.
These actions cause odor neutralization because the lighter molecules sink and evaporate over time due to very low vapor pressure.
In conclusion
Apartment hallway smells are not as problematic as they once were due largely to the many innovations and advances in the fields of chemistry and industrial science.
Our highly efficient air freshening diffuser systems and our vast array of scent options can keep these malodors permanently away from condo corridors.
If you are the manager of a condo complex plagued with tenant complaints about noxious apartment hallways smells, or a scent marketing or Jan San company that services condos, our teams at Air-Scent can offer solid and permanent solutions!
Send us a message today or call directly at (412) 252-2000.
Final thought on apartment hallway smells: Apartment hallway smells are horrible. Neighbors have been murdered and no one has found the bodies yet! ~ Quick Meme
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