Curry Smell In Apartment

RE: Curry Smell In Apartment Post By Christine (Guest Post) (12/01/2008) I live in a building that is housed with Indians. My current neighbor cooks 24/7 and the smell is so bad that we have been awakened in the middle of the night from the cooking. Management will not do a thing! My house smells so bad. That when I took a shower yesterday my hair smelled like curry. What do we do? Report Spam or Abuse RE: Curry Smell In Apartment Post By Ryan (Guest Post) (11/13/2008) I don't know how long the previous tenants were in my apartment, but I found that a full bottle of extra strength Febreze over about a week did the trick pretty well. It doesn't seem to be working as well on burnt food smell though. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Curry Smell In Apartment Post By Cameron (Guest Post) (10/02/2008) I am a landlord and have had some tenants with this same exact problem with the smell of curry in the kitchen and they have come to me to fix it. I have washed down the entire kitchen with ammonia, a natural grease cutter which has worked well to clean all of the oil off but it still smells, and have done a second wash of 409. I have not tried the vinegar approach yet but plan on ding that and I am planing on panting the walls. I see that someone has had a cleaning service and has commented on how they used some sort of balls and it smells new. Does any one know about that and has anyone actually had any luck with the vinegar? Report Spam or Abuse RE: Curry Smell In Apartment Post By raz (Guest Post) (07/31/2008) I cant get rid of smell it smell ever so bad. I go sleep and still smell it then dream about curry. I think it serious problem. I did everything in the kitchen and it smell worse. omg I wanna cry. I cant afford to move, since I'm ever so poor . Please if you smell of curry do house swap with me you can get familiar smelling house for free=] Report Spam or Abuse RE: Curry Smell In Apartment Post By Tommy (Guest Post) (07/19/2008) I Just bought a house from a chinese lady. My neighbour is an Indian and she is very friendly. I didn't know she likes to cook potent curry till I moved in. Every morning when I wake up, I open the window to nice greenery and sunshine, and when I take a deep breath, I smell nothing but potent oily curry smell. I spend like 50k renovating my new house and now I having second thoughts about staying there. Help! How can I prevent the curry smell from my neighbour from drifting over? I stay in a HDB flat, side by side with my Indian neighbour, who stays at the corner. I feel like partitioning the window with an extended wood separator between hers and my kitchen window.. you think it will help? Report Spam or Abuse RE: Curry Smell In Apartment Post by frugaladdict (3) | (06/03/2008) Contact Boil about three cups of white vinegar (may add some water) on stove and let steam disperse into the air. Don't stand too close. Wipe down everything (cabinets, stove, countertops, floor) with white vinegar. If you feel it's in the carpet, sprinkle baking soda on carpet, let sit at least 20 minutes or overnight, then vacuum. You must vacuum to get the smell out of carpet. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Curry Smell In Apartment Post By S Blackman (Guest Post) (04/06/2008) We have removed curry from several apartments. It is a very hard smell to remove as the oils cling to every surface in the kitchen and usually get in the duct work. Use a micro agent along with OdorSweep and you can remove the smells in 6-8 hours for around $400-500. Just google odorsweep. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Curry Smell In Apartment Post By L. MacK (Guest Post) (03/28/2008) When they were building Paradise Island in the Bahamas they housed workers from India in an older hotel where they lived for the duration of construction. When construction was finished and the construction workers went home the owners of the building found that it was impossible to get rid of the smell of curry. The final solution was to implode the building and start all over again. Interesting. I had one tenant for a month in my apartment last July and I still smell the curry she cooked with nine months later. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Curry Smell In Apartment Post By Carlitos (Guest Post) (03/16/2008) My Physics teacher smells like it everyday in class, shes Indian, but what my family does whenever we move into a new home is burn sage, and let it burn until it ashes. Continue doing that periodically and your house will start smelling completely normal and fresher. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Curry Smell In Apartment Post By John Smith (Guest Post) (02/21/2008) I have a solution, move out... so you won't smell it. We smell it at work all day and it's extremely potent. Sometimes I have to go outside for air. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Curry Smell In Apartment Post By Bill (Guest Post) (12/06/2007) I had rented my condo and the tenants cooked with curry. After 13 months the cabinets were saturated with cooking grease and I could not rent the unit as the smell would drive prospective tenants away. I finally used turpentine to break down the grease from all surfaces in the kitchen, appliances, hardwood floors, everything. Then we had the place painted with Kilz and then final paint. This helped considerably, but the smell was still there and the unit unrentable. The final step was to have a company come in. They applied some type of microbial solution to all the walls and floor and appliances. Then ran an ozone generator for 5 days. We then aired out the unit for a day. It has been a month now and the unit smells brand new. The entire process cost almost $2300 between paint, cleansers and the ozone treatment.The microwave had to be replaced as you could not get into the workings of the unit to clear the grease. But the smell is gone. Companies that do fire restorations will be familiar with treating curry smells in homes. Its expensive to get rid of, but if you don't do the cleaning and painting, ozone alone will not work, you need to remove the source. Ozone is the final process that makes it all come together. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Curry Smell In Apartment Post By Dave (Guest Post) (08/26/2007) We just moved into our apartment and the smell of curry is pretty strong. I have wiped down the cabinets and surfaces. All of the appliances are new except the microwave which is over the stove. I am pretty sure (hoping) that getting a new microwave will help fix our odors. The carpets and walls have been painted and it is really just the kitchen area that smells. I am also going to try the boiling technique. Any other suggestions? Report Spam or Abuse RE: Curry Smell In Apartment Post By James (Guest Post) (07/22/2007) I have been there already; I have gone to the end of the internet for a solution and could not find one. . . until now. Let me tell you my story. I moved into a condo that had cooking odors from spices and oils. I cleaned, I changed carpets, I painted, I bough all kind of devices such as air cleaners, ozone generators and ion generators. Nothing helped, the odor never went away. I decided it was time to call professionals, 3 different companies came over to test the quality of the air and gave me their suggestion to the problem. This costs me a fortune and their suggestions was more expensive then their tests. One company told me that the air is so bad I must move out, the only way to fix my problem was to break all the walls and ceiling, clean them and rebuild them. An extreme solution that was unacceptable to me. So I called another company, they offered me to buy a UV lamp and install it in my ducts. This special device with UV supposes to kill everything in the air. They guaranteed their device would work, so I got it installed. The device did not work, and the company refused to refund me. They all ran their own air quality tests, the they all got different results. At the end, I came to conclusion that companies that offer air quality tests, make tons on money just based on fear. If they have a product to offer they will scare you death so you will buy it. I was getting desperate, and came to conclusion that the odor cannot be removed not even by a nuke. A friend of mine called me one day and told me he knows someone that deals with odors. I called him. He told me that there is a new company that is specializing in removing odors without breaking anything. I was already frustrated, so when I called the company I was a bit rude and said that I am not paying a penny until the odor is removed for 30 days. They accepted the challenge and came to my condo. They had 2 huge machines with them,they were ozone generators. I protested and said that I have tried ozone generator before and it did not work. They explained me that the ozone generators machine offered to the public and simply not effective due to their low output. They explained that the ozone generators machines they have emit extremely large quantity of ozone that would break any type of carbon based organism or compound. Later I did a lot of reading about Ozone to understand how it works. Justgoogle it to find out the details. Anyways, they told me I have to leave the condo while they ran the machines. The machines pumps ozone everywhere - not only in the living area but also between the walls and within the ceiling and also in the kitchen exhaust. They have these special tubes coming out of the machine that you can inject anywhere you want. I left my condo while they ran the treatment because it is unsafe to breathe pure ozone. After 3 hours I came backand the condo smelled completely like ozone. I could not smell the odor anymore. They told me the ozone will break into oxygen very quickly and after that the condo would be odor free. They wanted no money; they asked that I will call them after a month. It has been one week now and there is no odor. I believe they have actually solved the problem I have been trying to solve for over 2 years. The treatment is called "Ozone Shock Treatment", however there are a lot of different ways to do it. I did not mention any company names here so you will know my motives are not to sell or promote. I am just telling you the truth, nothing worked except the shock treatment. Don't aste your money on air tests and devices. I recommend you do this shock treatment and take it from there. Save yourself the pain I have been going over. I know were you coming from and I hope this little story helps. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Curry Smell In Apartment Post By Neagle (Guest Post) (11/22/2006) Utilizing a spray bottle with a one to one ratio of water and a live microbial agent, available at True Value or most hardware stores spray the entire residence celling, walls, cabinets, draws, glass, hoods, as well as penetrating the carpet. Be careful to test for color fastness and be careful of electrical outlets, ect. Open the windows and let air dry. Also, replace the heaters air filter with a washable filter. You may need to repeat this process several times and continue with a maintenance spray once a week to keep the microbes active. This will break down the grease that traps the odors. It is less drastic then stripping the residence to the floor boards. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Curry Smell In Apartment Post By amita (Guest Post) (10/17/2006) Wash walls & floor & cupboards with warm water, dish soap. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Curry Smell In Apartment Post By Cecilia Gomez (Guest Post) (01/20/2006) You need to replace the carpets and prime all the walls and subflooring. Wash down all the surfaces in the kitchen to dissolve the grease particles. We also tunerd on an ozone machine in our condo for a week. The place has to be uninhabited while the ozone machine is on. Good luck! Report Spam or Abuse RE: Curry Smell In Apartment Post by renlute (4) | (08/17/2005) Contact Demand that the manager fix it or you will move. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Curry Smell In Apartment Post By Mike (Guest Post) (07/16/2005) I am sorry to tell you, there is no way to remove it. I had tried everything they suggested. These will only work for a day or two, but then the curry comes back. I had the same problem, the soltuion was to move. The problem is that the spice is within an oil that is within the walls and doors and cielling. Let me tell you ... I learned my lesson. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Curry Smell In Apartment Post By Anna from Maine (Guest Post) (06/19/2005) When I have bad smells from cooking that linger (like onion & garlic or deer meat or liver) I take a sauce pan, put a quart of water in it, add a cup of apple cider vinegae, a couple of tablespoon full of cinnamon and 6 whole cloves of 1/2 teaspoon full of ground cloves. Put on stove and simmer for several hours, watch that pan does not go dry. The vinegar & cinnamon are natural deodorants. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Curry Smell In Apartment Post By (Guest Post) (06/18/2005) Incense does wonders on removing odors. I don't know about the ones that are probably there forever, but eventually, if you burn enough incense, you will smell that and not the curry. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Curry Smell In Apartment Post by meoowmom (1472) | (06/17/2005) Profile | Contact wash kitchen walls & cabinets with TSP a cleaner for walls it worked for cigerrete stains and smell...and it does not cost much. I put it on mop and zoomed thru cleaning of walls. and spray lysol into Vents around. put large containers of vinegar like a flat dish and it will absorb odors. burn incense of your liking to linger around if nothing else works. good luck. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Curry Smell In Apartment Post by cookwie (1147) | (06/17/2005) Profile | Contact I was told by a real estate agent that it's actually the smell from frying food and essential oils lingering in the kitchen and it's not possible to remove it. Perhaps if you think of it in terms of grease molecules instead of curry, you will find a new approach to solving the problem. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Curry Smell In Apartment Post By Jo (Guest Post) (06/17/2005) Try putting containers of vinegar around the apartment. Report Spam or Abuse