Complaint about the smell in the room? Solutions to remove odors
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Find the source of the musty smell
1. Focus on inspection
When the aunt in the guest room is making the room, she should pay attention to checking the key areas such as the guest room, linen, toilet, wardrobe, etc., whether there is any odor. If it exists, report it immediately and do mildew and dehumidification treatment.
2. Find the source
Finding the source of the musty smell in the guest room is the key to removing the musty smell. Generally speaking, these locations in hotel rooms are most prone to musty smells.
① Carpets or linen carpets that have not been cleaned for a long time are the main source of musty smell in many hotels. Carpets that are cleaned less frequently or used for a long time are prone to musty smell.
②The wooden furniture in the guest room is moldy. When the air humidity is too high, after the wooden furniture in the guest room absorbs the moisture, mold may occur, especially in the corners or backs where there is little contact.
③ Wall seepage and moldy The room decoration often uses wallpaper and other materials. Once water seeps on the roof, exterior walls, and indoors, these coverings can well seal the moisture and create an excellent living environment for mold.
3. Remove mold source
①Carpet or linen If the carpet or linen is moldy, be sure to find a professional washing manufacturer to deal with it, and determine whether to replace the carpet or linen according to the washing situation.
②Wooden furniture For wooden furniture such as wardrobes, wooden floors, and drawers, first wipe the moldy area with a dry paper towel or dry brush, and then use a special mildew remover to remove the mold spots that have been formed. During the cleaning process, pay attention to wearing plastic gloves and masks.
③Water seepage treatment After water seepage is found on the wall, it is necessary to find out the reason, check the waterproofness of each part, and solve the phenomenon of aging and cracking of the waterproof material together.
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Regular room dehumidification
Even if the moldy parts that are visible to the naked eye are removed, in the rainy season, it rains for many days in a row, the air is humid and hot, and mildew and odors in the guest room may still occur repeatedly, so it is very important to do regular dehumidification work.
1. Sunbathing
The linen in the hotel room, especially the bedding in the rainy weather, can easily make people feel wet, and even if it is dried, it has a strange smell.
After continuous use for a period of time, it should be placed in the sun or in a ventilated place to dry according to the characteristics of the bedding fabric and filling, especially in the rainy season. Drying in the sun can sterilize and dry the bedding in a certain procedure, making the bedding soft and fluffy, and sleeping more “sunshine”.
2. Ventilation and dehumidification
The first step in cleaning the guest room is to open the windows for ventilation. After cleaning, you also need to remember to close the doors and windows. Note that the air humidity in the morning and evening is higher than at noon. If the doors and windows are not closed in time, the water vapor will seriously penetrate into every corner of the room. Therefore, open the windows for ventilation, and the noon time is the most suitable.
For rooms such as darkrooms, the fresh air system should be turned on, and the air should be ventilated in time. The return air filter should be cleaned regularly to ensure that there is no peculiar smell in the air.
3. Air conditioner dehumidification
If the area where the hotel is located is cloudy and rainy for a long time, opening the windows for ventilation may not be very effective. You can turn on the independent air conditioner in the guest room to dehumidify mode, or turn on the fresh air system for timely ventilation and ventilation.
If some rooms are particularly damp and musty, consider purchasing a dehumidifier.
4. Adsorption and dehumidification
To keep the room dry, hotels can use suitable desiccants to absorb moisture. Moisture absorption boxes, dehumidification bags, moisture-proof and mildew-proof cakes, activated carbon, etc. are common dehumidification products. Hotels can wrap them with cloth and place them indoors and replace them regularly to keep the air dry.
Note: The outer packaging of dehumidification products should be clearly marked as not edible, and parents with children should be reminded to put them in the corner as much as possible to avoid being accidentally eaten by children.
5. Cleaning
When cleaning a relatively humid room, the cleaning aunt should pay attention to wringing out the moisture of the mop to reduce the moisture left on the ground. After cleaning the furniture, floor, bathroom and other areas, wipe it again with a dry mop and a dry rag, and dry it quickly with a fan or air conditioner.
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Elimination of other odors
1. The smell of the bathroom
The bathroom is a common source of odor, which is mainly the odor emanating from the floor drain pipe or the basin pipe.
In the daily management, the hotel should clean the floor drain and water in time to ensure that the pipeline well is moist. When cleaning the bathroom, they should pay attention to cleaning the hair every day to reduce the chance of the hair blocking the drainage holes, and keep the sewer pipes clear and clean.
If there is still peculiar smell after repeated cleaning, the engineering department should thoroughly check the pipes and floor drains, and plan the cleaning of the floor drains and basin pipes.
2. Odor outside the room
If the surrounding environment is bad or the air quality is not good, for example, there are large construction sites or visiting, you should try to open the windows in the early morning for ventilation, and try to close them at other times.
3. The smell of furniture and walls
The walls or furniture that have just been painted with paint often have a strong irritating odor. First, the hotel should strengthen the ventilation of windows and place activated carbon. The use of activated carbon can absorb the odors of furniture and walls in the room.
4. The odor brought by the mop
If it is the odor on the mop, pay attention to put the mop in a ventilated place to dry after get off work every day, and use 84 disinfectant to clean the mop.
5. The smell of hotel decoration
If the hotel is a newly renovated room, there may be a pungent smell of chemical materials, which is difficult to remove in a short time. In addition to asking a professional formaldehyde removal company to handle and strengthen ventilation, the hotel can place cloth bags in the guest rooms to hold dry activated carbon, use electric fans to assist in accelerating indoor and outdoor air convection, and place orchids, cacti, aloe vera and other plants to remove odors.
6. The smell of toilet
For the peculiar smell of the toilet, it may be that the stains have not been cleaned thoroughly. You can pour 2 spoons of baking soda into the toilet, brush the toilet for the first time, then add 1 cup of white vinegar, disinfect and clean, and rinse with water.
If the stain is removed and the smell is still there, you can ask the engineering department to check whether the flange ring at the bottom of the toilet has been properly sealed.
7. The smell of smoke left by guests
Some guests may smoke indoors, resulting in the smell of smoke in the room. The cleaning staff must first open the windows to ventilate, and at the same time, they can use gauze dipped in vinegar to wave in the room to eliminate the smell of smoke.
8. Beautify the smell of the guest room
On the basis of eliminating odors, aromatherapy can be used in hotel rooms to make guests feel good as soon as they enter the door. Create a fresh breathing space with aromatherapy oils or air fresheners.
The hotel can also place some small green plants in the guest rooms, which can purify the air and increase the oxygen content in the room.