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How to Eliminate Odors in Hotels
Friday, September 27, 2024
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How to Eliminate Odors in Hotels
Picture this: You’re the manager of a hotel. You present a somewhat clean image to guests, but internally, you’re struggling. Certain rooms reek no matter how much you spray them down. The trash room swelters with odors regardless of the season. You try to control carpet and smoke odors throughout the building, but nothing is consistent. You’re at a loss for options, and guests are starting to leave negative reviews. How do you solve these odor problems?
At State Chemical, we manufacture and distribute chemical solutions for various issues, including odor problems. It’s difficult to find a consistent, reliable method for odor control—even more so when you aren’t sure where to start.
To give you an idea of how to eliminate odors in your hotel, we will explain odor elimination as a multi-step approach, common problem areas, and solutions for these problem areas. After reading, you’ll know which method may work best for you.
Hotel Odor Elimination as a Comprehensive, Multi-Step Approach
Hotels are expansive spaces, so it’s important to remember that odor control will be a multi-step process. The fragrance you use to freshen your lobby will differ from the odor eliminator you use to neutralize trash room odors. Finding the right strategy is all about balancing your needs.
Different facilities have different needs, but common hotel problem areas include lobbies, guest rooms, and trash rooms. To best ensure guest comfort, brand building, and an overall fresh-smelling facility, you need to view odor elimination as a comprehensive process, meaning that you focus on all the problem areas individually to best improve the whole.
Fragrancing a Hotel Lobby
First, let’s consider the possibilities for scenting a hotel lobby.
Typically, when it comes to scents in hotel lobbies, you’re most interested in adding a pleasant fragrance for brand building and guest comfort. After all, guests are less likely to stay in a hotel that smells bad from the moment they walk in. Plus, when a hotel stands out in their mind as smelling nice, they’ll be more likely to have positive memories and return.
To achieve this ambience, it’s worthwhile to invest in an automated scent diffuser. With this setup, a computerized system regularly disperses a fragrance through your lobby. You can choose what this scent will be in order to set your intended tone, and your facility will be more memorable for it.
However, there are other issues in hotel lobbies. If you’re interested in treating odor problems specific to certain parts of your lobby (e.g., lobby furniture), explore odor spot treatment methods, such as those explained below.
Fabric Refreshers in Hotel Lobby and Rooms
There is furniture, drapery, carpeting, and more fabric throughout your hotel. And unfortunately, odors cling to fabrics. Maybe the curtains in room 1203 have smelled like heavy smoke since you started working there. It's possible that the lobby furniture reeks of body odor. Perhaps the hallway carpets on floor five still smell like vomit from the inebriated couple that stayed last month.
In all of these situations, odors are hanging onto fabric. To resolve these types of problems, consider a fabric refresher.
A fabric refresher is a spray that can be applied to any kind of fabric indicated on the product label. For furniture, drapes, upholstery, and other textiles, it’s the perfect solution for odors. You can usually apply this spray about once a week to fight odors and add a pleasant fragrance to freshen the whole space.
In hotels, this can be perfect for lobbies and individual rooms that may be holding onto odors. At first, you may believe that a whole room is hanging onto odors, but if ambient scenting and handheld odor eliminators don’t work, your issue may be fabrics.
Total Release Odor Eliminator in a Hotel Room
Another common issue in hotels is getting a room ready for new arrivals.
Imagine your guests just left, and when housekeeping enters the room, it smells absolutely wretched. The odors of smoke, uneaten takeout food, and sweaty shoes seem to be occupying the entire space. Your next guest checks into this room in five hours; how are you supposed to thoroughly deodorize it in that time?
Your quickest, most efficient solution is a total release odor eliminator. This is a canister that you set in a room to fragrance it and overwhelm malodors. Once you click the button and set it in place, it will automatically fragrance the entire room. After a few hours, you’ll re-enter the room and find it smelling fresh and pleasant.
When you’re working on a tight timeline, this is a great way to ensure a clean-smelling space for guest satisfaction. If you find that this is a frequent issue for you, keep a case of total release odor eliminators on hand and use them when needed for check-ins.
Hotel Trash Room Odor Control
Trash rooms can often cause some of the biggest headaches for hotel managers—literally and figuratively. When you have a small, hot room full of rotting garbage, there’s no real way to avoid odors, making employees nauseous at the mere thought of taking out the trash.
Fortunately, there are ways to control trash room odors.
To directly treat the root of the problem—the trash cans—use a spot treatment method. This can mean an odor-eliminating spray, a granular to soak up liquids and eliminate odors, or another method. When you treat the odor at the source, you prevent odors from permeating the room.
Additionally, you could use automated scent diffusers to control odors and fragrance the trash room as a whole. This can be a benefit since scent diffusers have more extensive coverage capabilities than handheld products do.
However, the most comprehensive trash room solution is to combine spot treatment with automated scent diffusers. This way, you can treat the root of the problem while also fragrancing the space as a whole, leading to a much cleaner-smelling room for all facility users.
Learn More About Strategic Fragrancing and Scent Perception
When you’re running a hotel, you can’t stop odors before they happen, but you can control them with chemical products. Implementing a multi-step approach can eliminate each unique odor more efficiently for an overall cleaner facility.
Learn more about how to use commercial fragrance to your advantage here.
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