Seems I recall a thread dealing with a liquid that works on enzymes for odor removal.
New client has a rental where the fridge was left unplugged full of food for an excessive time span and you already know what happened.
They had cleaned it thoroughly but that funky odor still resides even with leaving those ion machines running inside the fridge.
I have to reno the whole place and want that fridge odor gone as I’ll be in the apt. a goodly length of time and for peace of mind.
Personally I’d have tossed the thing but they are paying the bill so I can go with whatever.
What might someone recommend for the fridge odor.
Thanks much.
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Spray it with Cat Pee. Problem of rotted food smell, solved.
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Make up a few gallons of Oxy-clean, that stuff works wonders..so does Peroxide, and Vinegar. All oxidents or acids help. Cat pee is uric acid and ammonia, so I was sorta serious. (G)Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
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I think you will have better luck with the fridge using the coffee method than using the enzyme liquid.
Buy a pound of the cheapest ground coffee you can find. Pour it into several aluminum foil pans, in layers an inch or so thick. Place the pans in the fridge, close it up, and go on about your business.
In about a week, open it up, remove the coffee & activate the sniff test. If a faint odor remains, repeat the process, using a new can of coffee.
Good luck!
If its really just the fridge that stinks can you move it out of the apartment while you are working? You can make up the anti-stinking solution I've been using (given to me by another breaktime user) 3 parts water, 1 part bleach, 1/2 part white vinegar and a splash of pinesol. It's worked pretty good on the rat ####, spoiled food stank at my dreamhouse.
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Edited 10/16/2007 6:16 pm by madmadscientist
Most rotting food smells are acidic in nature. The first cleaning with ammonia is best. Then spray peroxide, which oxidizes but won't yellow stuff like bleach. Ozone works too. I remember somewhere that ozone is used to get rid of cigarette odors in cars. Extensive ozone use kills plastic.http://www.etherhuffer.typepad.com
You shouldn't be able to smell anything from outside the fridge if its door is closed. Either the rotten smell is underneath or the door seal is no good. Did you remove the condensate tray from underneath?
Just did a quick walk thru scanning the job.
Will do that.
Thanks all.
Mark H has the right idea but you can get bicarbonate of soda a lot cheaper at the farmer's coöp than you can at a big box. I just spread 100 pounds of the stuff in a mouldy dirt-floor basement; cost $15.50 per 50lb sack/no tax (agricultural feed grade). We finished spreading the soda at noon and broke for lunch; when we went back down half an hour later, the mouldy smell was gone. Even the complaining tenant admitted she couldn't smell anything.
Friggin' amazin' is what it is.
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Get one of those 20lb boxes of baking soda at SamsClub etc. Dump one inside the fridge and in the freezer compartment. And dust the drip pan too. Then put it inside one of your sheds when you are working.