High Dollar Litter Boxes and Their Odors

06/05/2010 by Martin | 1 comment

I was browsing the internet today and stumbled onto several websites that sell some really neat looking litter box covers. They were made of rattan, furniture finished wood, plastic and other interesting stuff to fit the décor of the room they are to be placed in.

Some had activated carbon filters or fans or an  automatic scooper. The prices where staggering, but if you want a litter box to look like furniture you have to pay the price. One was a 4 layer unit that looked like a bookcase except there were holes at the end of each shelf and it was $500 and it think you had to assemble it your self!

There was even special litter, odor sprays and scoops available but the bottom line was, as pretty and expensive as these cat box covers/hiders were, without real odor control they too will stink by the end of the week, even if you scoop them daily and we all know that cats really love clumping litter :-( .

The question remains, what odor control products will work and be safe for your cat and family? The answer is really simple…OdorXit Concentrate for the bottom of the litter pan and OdorXit Magic for the area above the litter.

Available on-line to most buyers and over the counter to people in the Southwest Ohio area, OdorXit Products are the ones you can depend on to keep your home smelling…not smelling at all! Once you try OdorXit you’ll know you finally found the right product.

Musty Smell In Carpet

05/07/2010 by admin | No comments

Musty smelling carpet is caused by mold and mold spores in and on your carpet even if you can not see the mold growing.

Washing the carpet in most cases only makes the problem worse. The same goes for dehumidifying the area of the musty smelling carpet.

The way we have found to eliminate the musty odor is to kill the mold and spores that are causing the odor and vacuum up the resulting dust.

Killing mold and spores is a bit more difficult than you might think or hope. Basically there are 2 products that will actually kill both mold and spores:  ozone and chlorine dioxide.

Ozone gas is poison. The US EPA has not published a safe level of ozone because (my opinion) there isn’t one. The fact that Canada has banned the import of products that produce ozone even as a byproduct says volumes. The other issue is that you need fairly high levels of ozone to do the job. Levels high enough to cause fabric bleaching, and plastics to become hard and brittle to say nothing of what it can do to your eyes, skin and lungs.

Chlorine dioxide (CLO2) gas at levels above 10 parts per million (PPM) can be toxic if you are exposed for longer than a few minutes at a time. However, CLO2 is very effective at much lower levels. From .003 to .01 ppm which the EPA has indicated is safe for 24/7 exposure. And the fact that you need no electric to produce CLO2 using the OdorXit CLO2 product makes it really easy to use in any closed space. Yes, a fan will improve it performance, but the fan is not necessary for many applications including musty carpeting

After treating moldy musty carpet with CLO2 and killing all the mold and spores, there will be a nasty dust left in and on the carpet. This dust is the residue of the dead mold and spores that contains a product called mycotoxin that can be very toxic to humans and pets.  Follow the link to find out much more about what they are and how dangerous they can be.  Suffice to say, you need to vacuum the dust up with a very low dust vacuum cleaner.  Breathing dust containing mycotoxins can and will make you sick given the chance.

OdorXit CLO2 is available at the OdorXit website.

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