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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: David Bucknall on December 10, 2020, 08:27:46 pm

Title: Removing ingrained smell from melamine faced furniture
Post by: David Bucknall on December 10, 2020, 08:27:46 pm: Hi.
I was told you guys in the carpet cleaning section might be able to help me?
If anyone can that would be amazing!
I have a customer who bought a 2nd piece of furniture which was previously in the home of a heavy smoker. It stinks of cigarettes and some pretty bad smelling air freshener.
I have given it 2 washes with sugar soap, 1 with Cif, 1 with Flash and then 2 soaks with a biological animal urine smell and stain remover. It still stinks! The fAg smell has mostly gone but the grim smelling air freshener isn’t budging.
Does anyone have a magic product that will fix this issue?
Thanks!!
Title: Re: Removing ingrained smell from melamine faced furniture
Post by: Shaun_Ashmore on December 10, 2020, 09:35:53 pm: Is it fabric? Leather? Plastic? Wood??
Title: Re: Removing ingrained smell from melamine faced furniture
Post by: derikraven on December 11, 2020, 05:56:19 am: I always thought melamine was a plastic . I can't see how a plastic could retain an odour. ???
Title: Re: Removing ingrained smell from melamine faced furniture
Post by: David Bucknall on December 11, 2020, 06:13:26 am: Melamine is a plastic laminate on a chipboard core. It's the same stuff most kitchen cabinets are made out of. I've scrubbed the crap out of it 6 times and it still stinks. I don't think the enzyme based cat urine odour remover stuff I finished up with works either because the dodgy air freshner that's been used on it was a man made chemical. Ideally I need a cleaning solution that will break down that scent.
Title: Re: Removing ingrained smell from melamine faced furniture
Post by: David Bucknall on December 11, 2020, 06:16:40 am: Quote from: Shaun_Ashmore on December 10, 2020, 09:35:53 pm
Is it fabric? Leather? Plastic? Wood??

Melamine faced chipboard, the same stuff as most kitchen cabinets are made out of.
Thanks.
Title: Re: Removing ingrained smell from melamine faced furniture
Post by: Shaun_Ashmore on December 11, 2020, 04:50:35 pm: Sorry I didn’t read it properly,,

Nicotine is a sticky tar so I’d go for a degreaser to remove it even more then the ideal way would be ozone treat it with an ozone machine that’s how we used to do it after a fire.
Title: Re: Removing ingrained smell from melamine faced furniture
Post by: David Bucknall on December 12, 2020, 09:10:40 am: Thanks Shaun.
I managed to pretty much get it with 1/2 a cup of amonia, 1/2 a cup of baking powder, 1/4 cup of white vinegar and 4 pints of hot water. If I stick my nose directly on the melamine I can very slightly smell it, but as long as I don't do that the smell is undetectable.
I found a good internet article with various options, including ozone. I thought I'd try the cheapest one first!

https://www.mychemicalfreehouse.net/2020/05/how-to-remove-fragrance-air-freshener-smoke-residue.html

Thanks for your reply.
Dave.
Title: Re: Removing ingrained smell from melamine faced furniture
Post by: Elfyn on December 12, 2020, 09:32:03 am: ozone generator
Title: Re: Removing ingrained smell from melamine faced furniture
Post by: Shaun_Ashmore on December 12, 2020, 01:20:07 pm: This is the very best https://www.restormate.co.uk/epages/15094.sf/en_GB/?ObjectID=45691168
Title: Re: Removing ingrained smell from melamine faced furniture
Post by: Yada Yada Yada - www.m-clean.uk on December 12, 2020, 08:20:00 pm: I'm going to get some of that just on the words on the Restormate link - Maladors & putrefaction!!