How to obtain a fresh smelling house?

[charliecat]

Please

I got one of those 3volutions and they are brilliant. You plug them in and they change their fragrance every 45 minutes. I have mine at the bottom of the stairs in the hall and you can smell it at the top of the stairs and in the living room too.

A bit expensive initially but the refills are reasonable.

i dont "do" air freshners at all or synthetic fragrances where possible

i open windows as often as possible. and use FRESH AIR to FEESHEN my house at it REALLY works!

yup, get your windows open.

open windows

don't have a dog

I use this available from homebase and superdrug. Doesn't smell of chemicals or chike you.

deffo open windows on both sides of your house

like in the east and west wings so breeze goes through

sorry choke i mean

open windows, even if only for 10min a day
clean more (took me ages to realise that the reason our little-used dining room smelled stale was because it rarely, if ever, got dusted or hoovered and was just filling up with dust)
take out bins more often (big kitchen bins are particular culprit)
check fridge for manky veg

Keep it clean, and fresh air definately, ok so it's baltic out there today but at least your house will smell good.

Mine smells of Mr Sheen today - the sun came through the window and I realised that I couldn't see the TV or the puter screen for dust

use homemade products (there's anthea's surface cleaner recipe somewhere, will find link) with essential oils in

you can put a drop or two of orange oil in water to wash hard floors with

why doesn't it smell nice? I wouldn't be covering it with some floral bought gubbins, I'd be finding out why

agree re check bins and manky veg; also damp spots

oh yes, meant to add, if you clean with nice-smelling stuff the house gets clean and smells nice without air freshener - I use creamy beeswax stuff on our table and some other different, um, creamy beeswax stuff on the leather sofa - all smells very good.

It doesnt smell nice because I have 5 rats that wander round marking everywhere. So basically it smells of rats piss...hmmm great. Have just washed everywhere where they walk and the windows are open..

ring the environmental health

you can't do much about rats with a Glade plug-in

Oh charliecat they wander round the house pissing, surely not, do they not have a large cage! Sorry but i couldn't have them pissing in my house, as much as i love animals

(I think they might be pet rats - is that right?)
Sprinkle bicarb on the carpets, leave for a while, vacuum up.

RAST LOOSE IN YOUR HOSUE?
PETS OR NOT

LOL, they are my PET rats. But they do leave a stink behind them.

well you are obv unhinnged
kill the rtas

why on earth wasn't this thread called 'how to obtain a fresh smelling house with five rats in it?'

what kind of advice do you expect us to have?

put them in a pot

with some chicken thighs

barf
god
do other parents let hteir kids come ot play?
grossmungous

Well, I did think of mentioning them, but then thought against it.

lol environmental health, sorry that made me lol

yes, i think it may be the rats that are the cause of the pong.

they might be better off in a sewer or a close, perhaps.