Alexis Dawes

Okay so sales from No More Smelly House have begun to pick up. The only thing I can attribute it to are my AdWords advertisements.

As you can see from my No More Smelly House blog, I haven’t been very diligent about posting there. Oh well, I had good intentions. But like most of you, I also have other demands.

I’m not saying I’m done with the blog. At this point I probably just need to hire someone to create the content. When time ain’t on your side, hire someone else to do the work, and let it ride. That’s my new motto for the minute. You like?

Anyway, today I’m going to show you the article that I’ve written to promote No More Smelly House.

The title, Help! My Neighbor’s Stench is Invading My Apartment was born from my own apartment living experiences. I read that smells in apartments is the second biggest complaint amongst apartment dwellers. Noisy neighbors was of course the first.

After having just spent a year in Montréal - and experiencing the stench of cigarette smoke rising through my living room vents every morning, I know what a problem this can be.

(BTW… I’m not anti-cigarette smoker. Live and let live. I just don’t like the smell being in my house because of a downstairs neighbor.)

So here’s the article. I am distributing it to the sites I mentioned a couple of days ago, as well as a few article directories.

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Help! My Neighbor’s Stench is Invading My Apartment

If you can manage to live in an apartment without getting any residual smells from your neighbors’ cooking or smoking, consider yourself blessed. Most of the time this isn’t the case. Smells from neighbors’ are the second most frequent complaint among apartment dwellers – right behind noise.

The simple fact of the matter is that all apartment buildings breathe. Your vents tie into your neighbors’ vents. If you have a crack in your floor’s baseboard, and your neighbor has one in his, smells from your apartment will waft to his and vice versa. That’s just a part of living in an apartment building. It happens in both cheap and super expensive apartments. No one is exempt.

So what can you do to fix the problem? Try these solutions:

1) Spray some foam insulator (available at your local home building or hardware store) into those cracks around the floor and baseboard. Look for other open areas, especially around pipes, electrical outlets, and light fixtures, and spray foam insulation around those areas as well.

The foam insulation will dry hard. But sometimes it’s not enough. You may also have to further seal the insulation with caulk.

2) If you notice odors - like cigarette smoke - coming through your vents, you may want to run a HEPA air purifier near the offending vent.

Also for smoky smells, try spraying an odor neutralizer directly onto the vent. I personally like Nok-Out.

3) Use a window fan to pull odors outside.

Window fans work like the fans in your bathroom. Instead of blowing cool air, as a regular fan does, it pulls the air from the space around, and pushes it outside.

4) And finally, let fresh air be your friend. Give your apartment a good 15 to 20 minute airing out twice a day.

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Alexis Dawes is the author of No More Smelly House: The Ultimate Guide to Neutralizing and Eliminating Stinky Odors From Your Living Quarters available at (http://www.NoMoreSmellyHouse.com).

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I’ll keep you up to date as far as the traffic I receive from the article.

Comments? Post away!