Smoke Mitigation/Damage

[fitz19d]

So I had a 65watt Halogen light get knocked down by a marauding monitor. (Who is now MIA in the house.) It singed up a artificial hide and mostly charred up some aspen bark. Room now smells like a forest fire or campfire. As far as I know I didnt think open flame, or even if it did, I don't have any visible smoke on the ceiling.


Think this will dissipate on it's own, or is there some non huge affair I can do to improve it. (As in nothing as drastic as replacing dry wall, but something like hot sponging/steaming the walls?)

[newracer]

Wash the walls with TSP and get an ozone generator.

[HBARleatherneck]

we have had good luck with spraying OdoBan on the affected surface and ozone generators.

I think we got ours from here. They are cheap and work.

http://www.ozonegeneratormachines.co...enerators.html

[MarkCO]

Yep. Get the charred stuff removed, wash, then Ozone last.

Be careful with the Ozone generator though...you do not want to breath it. I'd probably seal the room you are going to use it in with some plastic sheeting and let it run all day. Air the room out well before you go in.

[fitz19d]

Charred stuff just in the tank. No visible damage to any of the room itself. Just the smell.

Don't think I'll probably do ozone until last resort. Odoban and some others look like a cheap if labor intensive route.



Also, think im crazy for wanting to like borrow a tracking dog to hunt down this thing in my house lol.... (Usually good at catching escapes, but in this case I was away from home for 20 hours seems to have hurt that.)