Hello, I'm having a hard time getting the vocs out of the bedroom carpet, (old apartment). I cleaned the carpet with a PowerScrub XL carpet clean machine using baking soda and hydrogen peroxide, the odor went away for a few hours but starts wafting around periodically. I cleaned the carpet 3 times, but the water is still very brown when I dump it out. I'm going to buy a steam cleaner next, will that work?
Hi there. Great question. Are you running an air purifier with carbon filtration? If so, make sure it's running on the highest fan speed you can tolerate. Air purifiers with thick carbon filters need a lot of air flow to clean up VOCs embedded in your carpet;
You left out a huge source of interior VOCs. These are high VOC flooring adhesives, used to glue vinyl flooring down and also used to install some carpets. Adhesives are necessary for some buildings that have poured concrete base floors, versus wood floors. In that case, carpet has to be glued to the cement and cannot be tacked down to the cement base flooring.
That is a great example - there are so many sources of VOCs that it is nearly impossible to list them all. And like you mentioned, sometimes they are hard to avoid!
They are hard to avoid unless you are creating your own hom. I am a big advocate of low VOC flooring adhesives, ceramic tile, and wool, plus avoiding furniture with fire retardants, or scotchguard. Most of us rent, and unfortunately have little control over flooring products, or sub flooring materials hence the need for your carbon air purifiers!
Hello, I'm having a hard time getting the vocs out of the bedroom carpet, (old apartment). I cleaned the carpet with a PowerScrub XL carpet clean machine using baking soda and hydrogen peroxide, the odor went away for a few hours but starts wafting around periodically. I cleaned the carpet 3 times, but the water is still very brown when I dump it out. I'm going to buy a steam cleaner next, will that work?
Hi there. Great question. Are you running an air purifier with carbon filtration? If so, make sure it's running on the highest fan speed you can tolerate. Air purifiers with thick carbon filters need a lot of air flow to clean up VOCs embedded in your carpet;
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You left out a huge source of interior VOCs. These are high VOC flooring adhesives, used to glue vinyl flooring down and also used to install some carpets. Adhesives are necessary for some buildings that have poured concrete base floors, versus wood floors. In that case, carpet has to be glued to the cement and cannot be tacked down to the cement base flooring.
That is a great example - there are so many sources of VOCs that it is nearly impossible to list them all. And like you mentioned, sometimes they are hard to avoid!
They are hard to avoid unless you are creating your own hom. I am a big advocate of low VOC flooring adhesives, ceramic tile, and wool, plus avoiding furniture with fire retardants, or scotchguard. Most of us rent, and unfortunately have little control over flooring products, or sub flooring materials hence the need for your carbon air purifiers!