Odor removal for St. Matthews properties

Older St. Matthews housing gives odor more places to live than a modern build does. Original hardwood, plaster and the void spaces behind them absorb odor and release it slowly, which is why airing a room out never quite finishes the job.

That is also why treatment order matters. Removing the source comes first, then the materials that absorbed it, then the ductwork if it carried it, and only then whatever remains in the air. Anything starting with fragrance is masking.

Where odor has been in a material for years rather than weeks, some of it will need replacing rather than treating. We would rather tell you that at the inspection than after two rounds of treatment that were never going to hold.

Pet odor is the hardest version of this: it soaks through carpet and underlay into the subfloor, so surface treatment lifts the smell and then loses it. We will tell you when the answer involves lifting flooring and sealing the substrate.

The inspection establishes which materials are holding the odor and whether the ductwork carried it, so the treatment that follows is chosen for what is actually there rather than applied as a standard package.