How to get rid of damp and musty smells from your Home?
Urbanites today consciously choose homes that can provide both lifestyle and health, but still feel hapless when it comes to issues like dampness and moisture indoors. While a 200-page report by World Health Organization (WHO) emphasizes the many ways in which dampness impacts the quality of air indoors, most immediate impact of dampness is the musty, foul odours indoors. You can find them in pretty much any enclosed space, be it wardrobes, closets, shoe racks, lofts, under-the-sink areas and more.
Don’t worry, there are many angles of solutions at your finger tips now and all are easily available and simple to use. Before getting in to details about solutions, here are some precautions and general items you can do to safeguard your home.
- Keep your home ventilated, even if you get one or two hours a day, open a few windows and let some fresh air flow through the house.
- Fix plumbing and water leaks through the walls as quickly as possible. Languishing problems like these are big and worrisome sources of wetness indoors.
- Do not leave wet articles to stay inside, promptly dry them. For example, partially dried clothes are a great source of moisture that can seriously hamper stink up your wardrobe and other fresh clothes.
Allergies and moisture indoors
The WHO report’s most important conclusion is that higher the levels of moisture, higher the incidence of allergies. There are many facets to this finding including the fact that people could be allergic to mould and mildew/spores that are floating around, all of which thrive well in moist and damp conditions.
The power of prevention
If you have lost your favorite wallet or jacket to fungus and mould infestation, you will appreciate the need to maintain a healthy storage environment for your belonging in the house. Don’t allow moisture to linger in enclosed storage spaces.
Eliminating damp and musty smells
Damp and musty smells are a common nuisance in homes. Moisture promotes the growth of foul-odour causing bacteria and microbes. Addressing and controlling high levels of stagnant moisture is a completely new way to solve many odour problems from the inside out.
New products like Cactus moisture absorbers are designed specifically to address these myriad of problems caused by moisture in enclosed spaces indoors. They are available in three variants that fit almost any space in your house and at affordable prices. Use them in small storage spaces like drawers or shoe racks or even in wardrobes and closets. They effectively prevent the formation of fungus and mould and eliminate foul odours caused by moisture. While dampness is amplified during rainy seasons, these problems are perennial in nature since trapped moisture has stays indoors.
It is now possible and easy to keep away nasty, damp and musty smells and keep your indoor spaces healthy. Act now, prevent moisture related damages, don’t succumb to them.
