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• Worst HazMat Odors and How to Handle Them

  August 16, 2012

  After a fire, flood, or other disaster, all people want is a return to normalcy. If you’re in the home remediation business, you undoubtedly know how much it means to people when they’re able to move back into their homes. One of the toughest aspects of home remediation is removing house odors that are left behind after a home has been damaged by fire or water. Whether you’re dealing with residual smoke smell from a fire, musty smell from water damage due to floods or the water used to put out a fire, or other odors, the right odor removal products can make all the difference in the world.

  How many times have you gone through a house repeatedly, spraying Lysol other odor removal products? Have you ever wondered why the smell just keeps coming back? To understand why odors are so difficult to get rid of (and to know which odor removal products will get the job done right the first time), you need to understand a little bit about what causes odors in the first place.

  Most household odors, including the kinds commonly dealt with in home remediation, are caused by the decay of organic materials. This happens on a molecular level, making it very hard to get rid of all the organic material that’s causing the odor. Most so-called odor removal products don’t even try to remove or fundamentally change the matter that’s causing the odor-they just cover it up.

  Obviously, covering up odor is NOT removing house odors. If you want to eliminate the odors completely, you need odor removal products that attack the problem at its source-the decaying organic material. You need Liquid Shocker and Room Shocker Quick Release by Biocide Systems.

  Biocide Systems’ line of products works by causing a chemical reaction which fundamentally changes the organic materials that cause home odors. When used as directed, the chlorine dioxide in their products bonds with the organic material, completely eliminating the odor and releasing harmless ions into the air. Organic odors are eliminated completely, leaving the home smelling fresh, clean, and odor neutral.

• Summer Time is Odor Time for Pets

  August 14, 2012

  There’s no time like summer time. Time to soak up some rays, crank up the AC, and let the kids and pets run wild and free. Unfortunately, though, all that time outside means that pets (and kids, for that matter), tend to pick up some pretty grungy odors. While regular baths are the best way to keep the pets (and kids) from staying smelly, it’s impossible to keep the odor completely away.

  Even the cleanest dogs will end up smelling funky (and making the carpet and furniture smell just as funky) if you don’t have the right odor removal products. The fact that we tend to keep our homes closed up during the dog days of summer only makes pet odors worse.

  You keep a clean home, and chances are that you’ve tried all kinds of odor removal products. Most of them seem to work OK for a while, but the pet odors just keep coming back. The reason, frankly, is that your average pet odor eliminator doesn’t eliminate odors at all; it only covers them up and masks them with fragrance. Trying to get rid of pet odors in your home with those kinds of odor removal products is kind of like skipping showers and just putting on extra cologne or perfume-sooner or later the stink is going to come through.

  What if we told you there’s a pet odor eliminator that does more than cover odors up? What if we told you about odor removal products that actually remove the odors completely? Using those kinds of odor removal products would be a no brainer, right?

  Biocide Systems produces a variety of odor removal products, including the best pet odor eliminator on the market. No matter what kinds of smells your dog brings into the house-even if your dog has an unfortunate run in with a skunk- you can count on Biocide Systems to deliver a pure, odor neutral atmosphere to your home.

  All of Biocide Systems’ products, from our Room Shocker and Auto Shocker to our Doggi Cleen spray, operate on the same basic principle. Odors are caused by decaying organic matter. Our products find that matter, whether it’s on the pets or in the carpet, and bond with it, causing a harmless chemical reaction that eliminates odors completely at their source. Wherever you happen to be dealing with pet odors this summer-in the car, in the home, or in the kennel, Biocide Systems has the odor removal products you need to get rid of the odor fast.

• Removing Odors from Car Carpets

  August 9, 2012

  It would seem like removing car odors should be fairly easy. After all, most of the car’s surfaces are nonporous and easy to clean and disinfect. So, why is it that you just can’t get rid of stubborn odors? What do the top auto detailers know that you don’t know?

  The truth is, removing car odors isn’t difficult if you know how to remove car odors and you have the right tools-starting with an effective carpet odor eliminator. You see, most of the really stubborn car odors, from cigarette odor to that musty body odor smell that accumulates in older cars, gets trapped deep into the car’s upholstery, carpet, and seats. The right carpet odor eliminator is all you need for removing car odors.

  So, where can you find a carpet odor eliminator that can tackle the tough odors that set into used cars? The best one on the market is Biocide Systems’ Auto Shocker. There’s no need to spend a lot of time worrying about how to remove car odors. Auto Shocker is easy to use and will generally eliminate all odors in one application.

  What makes Auto Shocker so much different from any other carpet odor eliminator you could pick up at the store? Simply this: Auto Shocker’s active ingredient-chlorine dioxide-does more than cover odors up. It eliminates them completely. It does this by bonding with the decaying organic material that causes odors. When Auto Shocker meets the source of car odors, the ensuing chemical reaction release harmless ions into the air while simultaneously neutralizing the smell. You are left with an odor free car.

  Whether you’re looking to sell used cars (and want them to smell cleaner so you can command a higher price), sell or trade in your personal car, or just want a more comfortable, less smelly ride, Auto Shocker is the carpet odor eliminator you’ve been looking for. Nothing is more effective for removing car odors. Try it yourself and see. When you want your car to smell better than new, BioShock it with Auto Shocker.

• Carpet Still Stinks After Steam Cleaning? Don’t Toss It; Bio Shock It

  August 7, 2012

  When you’ve scrubbed your carpets, shampooed them, and had them professionally steam cleaned and they still smell like cat pee, smoke, or some other unpleasant odor, it’s time to get new carpet, right? That is one solution, but it’s a rather expensive one. What if there’s a better, less expensive way of removing house odors from your carpet? What if there’s a carpet odor eliminator that really works?

  We’re not talking about your run of the mill carpet odor eliminator that doesn’t really do anything about removing house odors. We’ve all tried to get rid of odors by covering them up, and most of us have already figured out that it doesn’t work. As soon as the perfumed fragrance wears off, everyone notices the carpet smells again.

  At Biocide Systems, we take a different approach to removing house odors. We understand something that most of our competitors just don’t seem to get: In order to eliminate odors, you have to attack them at the source and remove what’s causing the odors.

  Believe it or not, that doesn’t mean throwing out the carpets. What it does mean is using a carpet odor eliminator that deals with the true source of the carpet odors on a molecular level. At Biocide Systems, our line of odor removal products does just that.

  The active ingredient in all of our odor removal products is chlorine dioxide. Chlorine dioxide actively seeks out the organic molecules which cause odors, bonding with them. When this chemical reaction takes place, odors are neutralized completely, leaving your carpet and home fresh and odor neutral.

  When you BioShock your home with Room Shocker, it will eliminate carpet odors and any other organic odors in the home. Liquid Shocker is perfect for getting rid of pet urine, musty smells, and other common carpet odors. Used Liquid Shocker in combination with Room Shocker, and you’ll feel like you have a brand new home again.

  The choice is yours. You can get new carpet if you want to. Just keep in mind that you’ll eventually be dealing with the same odors in the new carpet, too. No one wants to keep replacing carpeting if they can avoid it. Use Biocide Systems’ effective carpet odor eliminator instead.

• Best Ways to Eliminate Smoke Smell in Your Car

  July 31, 2012

  So you want to sell your car or trade in on for something shiny and new. The problem is, you’ve been smoking in your current car since you’ve had it, and it smells kind of like an ashtray. If you’re like most people, you’ll suck it up and trade your car in for less than it’s worth. Fortunately, you’re smarter than most people and realize that removing smoke smell from car isn’t as hard as it sounds.

  We’re going to let you in on a little secret. Most of the air fresheners on the market today don’t remove smoke odor from car. They’re not designed to. At best, they mask smoke odors. We have something that can completely remove smoke odor from car interiors: Auto Shocker.

  When you need to remove smoke odor from car, simply follow the instructions and apply Auto Shocker. Close up the windows, and leave Auto Shocker to do the real work. Removing smoke smell from car is a snap when you have the right product for the job. Auto Shocker can remove smoke odor from car, leaving your car completely odor free.

  Your car won’t smell like new. It’ll smell better than new. The active ingredient in Auto Shocker kills all kinds of odors, not just smoke odors. The reaction that takes place releases harmless (and odorless) ions into the air while completely neutralizing cigarette and other odors in your car.

  Removing smoke smell from car has never been easier. It only takes one application, and the job is done.

  Auto dealers and detailers love Auto Shocker, too. Biocide Systems offers discounts for bulk orders, allowing you to remove smoke odor from cars on your lot so you can move them faster and for more money.

• How to Completely Eliminate Odor from Any Room

  July 27, 2012

  How many times has it happened in your hotel? A guest complains about the smell and you have to give them another room. Be honest-it happens more often than you’d like to admit. Truth be known, it doesn’t have to happen at all in your hotel. If you have the know-how and the right products to remove odor from room, you can avoid the vast majority of these complaints in the first place.

  Now, giving a guest a new room is no big deal. The problem is that you usually end up losing a customer forever. Even if your service staff handles the situation in a completely professional manner, a customer who believes there is a reasonably good chance that she will get a smelly room will never come back. It doesn’t matter if that room was the only one in your whole hotel with an odor problem.

  The natural reaction to getting customer complaints is to blame the housekeeping staff. While we’re not saying some housekeeping staff couldn’t be more diligent, the problem is often tougher than that. Your housekeeping staff can spray deodorants and fragrance into the hotel rooms, but some odors just won’t go away. Even if they do manage to mask the smell temporarily, most air fresheners wear off in a few hours without doing anything to actually remove odors.

  Biocide Systems’ line of Room Shocker products are designed to eliminate odors, leaving your rooms smelling fresh and odor neutral. Best of all, one product takes care of all kinds of odors in the room. You can remove odor from room in one application in the vast majority of cases. You don’t need a separate carpet odor eliminator. Room Shocker replaces the carpet odor eliminator because it works by seeking out and bonding with the organic substances which cause odor.

  Make your rooms more pleasant for your guests while making your housekeeping staff’s job easier and more effective. Bio-Shock your rooms.

• You Smoke. So What? Your Car Doesn’t Need to Smell Like an Ashtray

  July 25, 2012

  Removing smoke odor from car isn’t impossible, no matter what you’ve been told. Biocide Systems’ Auto Shocker is specially designed to eliminate smoke odors. Those deep set smoke odors that get down deep into the seats and carpeting are no match for Auto Shocker.

  If you smoke, then you already know that removing smoke smell from car isn’t easy. Most smokers just give up and accept the “fact” that their cars are going to have some degree of smoke odor no matter what they do and that they’re going to have to take less when they sell or trade in their cars. The problem is that they’re not using the right product for removing smoke odor from car.

  Car air fresheners are fine if you want your otherwise clean smelling car to smell like cherries, pine trees, lemons, or whatever other flavor air freshener you happen to find. They don’t do a thing for removing smoke smell from car, though.

  For removing smoke smell from car, you need an odor eliminating product that cleans it up completely. You need Auto Shocker.

  Removing smoke smell from car is easy with Auto Shocker. One application, and your smoke odor is gone completely. What’s more, any other odors you may have in your car will be gone, too. Auto Shocker destroys all organic odors leaving your car smelling clean and fresh.

  Want to get rid of smoke smell in your home, too? Try Room Shocker Quick Release. You don’t have to live with lingering smoke smell just because you enjoy a cigarette now and again. BioShock your home and your car today.

• Want to Build a Rep as the Best Auto Detailer in Town? Bio-Shock ‘Em

  July 13, 2012

  You can scrub down every millimeter of a used car and eliminate every trace of dust and dirt, but there isn’t much you can about the smell if you don’t know how to remove car odors. And let’s face it: most of the products designed to deal with car odors don’t work, especially if you’re trying to remove smoke odor from car.

  Let’s talk turkey: most of the methods you’ve used to remove smoke odor from car and deal with other car odors amount to masking the smell enough so some poor schlepp will buy the lemon (only to have the odor come back full force once the “new car” or “fresh pine” fragrance wears off).

  The devil’s in the details. If you can set yourself apart from the next guy in auto detailing, you’re going to earn more business and be able to charge more for your services. In that sense, auto detailing is no different than any other business or line of work. What would you say if we told you that we could show you how to remove car odors? We mean all car odors. You can remove smoke odor from car, body odor, pet odors, even skunk odors (and if you’ve ever tried to get skunk odor out of a car, you know what a pain in the rear bumper it can be).

  Biocide Systems has developed a revolutionary line of car odor removal products. You don’t need a whole cart full of different products to deal with different odors. You don’t need to scrub the dickens out of the upholstery, only to leave it still smelling foul. You don’t need to rely on fragrances that mask car odors (who likes pine scented body odor, anyway?). We can show you how to remove car odors-all of them-quickly and easily. All you need to do is Bio-Shock the cars you detail.

  Want to build client loyalty and keep those dealers coming back to you for all their auto detailing needs? Bio-Shock every used car that comes your way with our line of Auto Shocker odor elimination products. The investment is miniscule compared to the value of repeat business you can earn when you show them that you can make every car sparkle inside and out and that you can make every car smell better than new. Not just perfumed, but truly odor free.

• How to Upgrade the Smell of Your Victorian Remodel

  July 9, 2012

  The housing market is tough these days. One of the few bright spots for those who would dabble in real estate is the popularity of remodeled Victorian style homes. Unlike many of the homes being built today, Victorian era houses were built to last. This is attested to by the fact that so many of them are still around and in reasonably good (or at least reasonably restorable) shape.

  Most people who deal with remodels already know how to take a Victorian home that’s in rough shape and get it looking right again. One problem common to Victorian era homes which remodelers have a tough time with is how to remove odor from rooms within the house.

  What you may not realize while you’re walking through the home with a can of air freshener in each hand is that you are dealing with odors which are (at least in some cases) as old as the house itself. On top of that, you’re dealing with odors which are (again, at least in some cases) set in deep into places where you can’t reach to scrub them away (like inside the walls).

  Most odor removal products won’t take care of the problem. Sure, you can mask the smell long enough to show the home, but most home buyers are savvy enough to know that the house only smells like potpourri because you sprayed air freshener all over the place. On top of that, many of them realize that the reason you use air freshener is because the home has odors you don’t want them to catch. This can affect what they offer for a house (or whether they offer anything at all).

  Room Shocker Quick Release by Biocide Systems is designed to eliminate all kinds of organic odors. It can find and destroy odors in places where other odor removal products simply can’t. When you need to remove odor from room in your Victorian remodel, don’t waste your time with odor removal products that don’t really remove odors. BioShock the house with Room Shocker.

• The Best Way to Get Skunk Odor Off Your Dog

  July 6, 2012

  “No! Rover! No! That’s not a……..cat.”

  Does that sound like a familiar conversation with your (soon to be skunk sprayed) dog? If not, it could be. And unfortunately, your dog doesn’t understand enough English to get the message soon enough to stop the inevitable. Even if he did understand you, his curiosity would likely get the better of him (whoever said “curiosity killed the cat” never had a dog sprayed by a skunk). You need Doggi CLEEN, fast.

  Skunks have shown themselves to be some of the most adaptable critters in all creation, making themselves equally at home in the woods or in the suburbs. It’s not even unheard of to have skunks wandering around city neighborhoods at night. Given that most people just do their best to stay the heck out of their way, skunks can survive just about anywhere they can find food and water. And if they make their home near yours, you’re going to want to have an effective skunk odor eliminator on hand.

  Don’t just pick up any odor eliminator from the store shelves. Most of them simply don’t work on skunk odor. Even if they did, getting a dog sprayed by a skunk to sit still long enough for you to scrub them with it isn’t exactly easy. When you’re dealing with a skunk sprayed dog, you need an odor eliminator that works quickly (before Fido has a chance to rub the smell all over the kids, furniture, and carpet), effectively (so you only have to apply it once), and without freaking your dog out (especially if your dog doesn’t like baths…and most don’t). A skunk sprayed dog is already freaked out and uncomfortable. You need a product that will be easy to apply so you can focus on calming your four footed friend down.

  The best odor eliminator to use for a skunk sprayed dog is Biocide Systems’ Doggi Cleen Skunk Spray. This powerful odor eliminator does more than mask skunk smell, it destroys the offensive odor (and a host of other organic odors). In most cases, you will only need one application. Best of all, it comes in a spray, so you won’t have to drown your dog in order to apply it. Simply spray it on and let the active ingredient (chlorine dioxide) do its work. Your dog is left feeling and smelling fresh and clean.

• How to Eliminate Skunk Odor Wherever You Find It

  July 4, 2012

  When Pepe le Pew visits you, it doesn’t really matter whether he sprays the dog, the kids, or the house. You have an instant odor problem and you need to get rid of smell, stat.

  If you’ve ever tried a “tried and true” skunk odor remover like tomato juice, you know that it just doesn’t work. You can scrub and scrub until your fingers smell as bad the area the skunk sprayed and there will still be residual skunk odor-and nobody wants to live with that. On top of that fact that you didn’t get rid of smell and still have skunk odor to deal with, using tomato juice stains everything and leaves you with a mess. Who needs that?

  Maybe you’ve tried an odor remover off the store shelves and found that you didn’t fare any better against skunk odor. That’s because the average odor remover doesn’t really remove odor at all. All they do is try to cover odors up, often masking them under layers of perfume. No one wants skunk odor in their house, even if it is perfumed skunk odor.

  If you want to get rid of a smell- to truly eliminate it - that’s where Biocide Systems’ series of odor removers comes in.

  Biocide Systems offers a variety of products designed to remove skunk odor in your home, on your pets, or just about anywhere else. The products are applied differently to best handle the need, but they work on the same basic concept: destroy odors leaving the affected area odor-neutral.

  They achieve this by using chlorine dioxide so the odor is neutralized, and your home (or dog, or whatever) is left completely odor free.

  Check out Biocide Systems’ full line of skunk odor remover products. We recommend keeping at least one Skunk 911 kit on hand. After all, skunks don’t generally send a calling card before their next visit.

• Getting Your RV Ready for the Summer

  May 28, 2012

  Anyone who has owned an RV for more than one season knows that they can get pretty musty after being shut up for the whole winter. Even if you did an excellent job cleaning it and winterizing it, chances are that your RV is going to have some odor issues that you’ll want to deal with before hitting the road for that first vacation of the summer.

  Unfortunately, most RV owners don’t really know how to remove RV odor completely.

  You could just spray air freshener in the RV. Of course, you end up with an odd mix of musty odor and floral scents when you do that. So, how to remove RV odor? You need an odor eliminator that really works. You need to Bio-Shock™ your RV.

  Biocide Systems’ Quick Release RV Shocker can have your RV smelling clean and odor neutral in no time, so you can get out and enjoy your RV this summer. Simply follow the instructions on the package and let RV Shocker do its thing. The chlorine dioxide in RV Shocker will eliminate odors and release clean oxygen. Before you know it, you’ll be off to destinations unknown.

  You can’t help getting odor in an RV. Anytime you have people living and sleeping together in a small space, you’re going to have odor develop. The fact that RVs are often closed up for weeks or months at a time doesn’t help, either. It’s a good idea to order extra RV Shocker so you’ll have it on hand when you need it. Ideally, you should use RV Shocker at the beginning and ending of the camping season. Of course, you can also use it in the interim as the need arises.

  When you have the right odor eliminator and know how to remove RV odor, it’s easy to keep your RV smelling clean and odor neutral.