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Posted: 8/29/2015 8:14:46 PM EDT
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Have you tried one of the vehicle odor neutralizes?
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Posted: 8/29/2015 8:36:53 PM EDT
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Ozium
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Posted: 8/29/2015 9:44:16 PM EDT
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Call a restoration company...they have stuff that works.
You may just have to soak it and wash it a couple times. |
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Posted: 8/30/2015 8:02:07 AM EDT
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When my house caught fire; all of the cloth material was taken to a commerical cleaners that dry cleaned and used isolation chambers to get rid of the burnt smell.
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Posted: 8/30/2015 9:05:33 AM EDT
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Ozium This stuff works really well on some funky odors. |
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Posted: 8/30/2015 9:43:50 AM EDT
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1) make insurance pay via contents. Smoke never totally comes out
2) wash if you can 3) ozone (restoration company) if you can't 4) trash bag with box of baking soda opened and in it to pull in smells 5) throw it outside in the sun for a few months and let nature do its thing We had a total loss structure fire in '07. I wouldn't wish smoke inhalation on anybody. That ozone crap is expensive but it works, I did have luck on bakin soda with trash bags though. if its just "gear", I'd almost just let it be. It'll piss you off now, but it's almost impossible to replace your good gear on the spot. |
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Posted: 8/30/2015 10:02:07 AM EDT
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one of those ozonics hunting odor eliminator things works great on every other odor that is thown at it got a friend with one? use his instead of buying
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Posted: 8/30/2015 11:16:36 AM EDT
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toss it in a hot tub for 15-20 minutes...
or soak in a mix of baking soda/vinegar in a bucket. |
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Posted: 8/30/2015 1:40:22 PM EDT
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service masters uses ozone machines to defunk stuff. That's what they did when I had a house fire. I just layed my stuff out in the open so more surface area was open.
Also a lot of crumpled up news paper works also. Just get a large garbage bag and stuff your gear and newspaper in it and seal it up for a week or so. This worked to remove the smell when mice got into my riding gear bag and made a home. |
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Posted: 8/30/2015 3:44:35 PM EDT
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 FF/investigator with 26 years experience.
Most of the smell is actually the unburned byproducts of combustion. I've changed clothes after being on a scene but until I rinse the particles out of my nose it keeps smelling like I'm in a chimney. A method that professional restoration companies use on any surface they don't just coat with Kilz is to make a mixture of TriSodium Phosphate, also known as TSP. It's a degreaser but also breaks the bond between the residue and the surface it's on. Normally they apply it them rinse it off - for your gear I'd run it through a gentle cycle in the wash, or hand wash and rinse then let air dry. Not sure if any of the TSP substitutes will work, but that's what I've heard. Hope it helps. |
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Posted: 8/30/2015 5:18:16 PM EDT
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AFAIK, Ozone is poison to plastic, and nylon is a plastic. I'd read-up on using any ozone-based treatment for expensive nylon gear.
Not saying it works or not. Just a cautionary comment. FWIW, I'm no expert on decontaminating smoke/water damaged items. Some e-mails to major mfrs about decontaminating such items might be worthwhile, and ask questions about which processes/treatments/methods they recommend. I doubt you will be the first person to ask such a question. Please post your responses here for the benefit of all. |
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Posted: 8/30/2015 5:23:16 PM EDT
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FF/investigator with 26 years experience.
Most of the smell is actually the unburned byproducts of combustion. I've changed clothes after being on a scene but until I rinse the particles out of my nose it keeps smelling like I'm in a chimney. A method that professional restoration companies use on any surface they don't just coat with Kilz is to make a mixture of TriSodium Phosphate, also known as TSP. It's a degreaser but also breaks the bond between the residue and the surface it's on. Normally they apply it them rinse it off - for your gear I'd run it through a gentle cycle in the wash, or hand wash and rinse then let air dry. Not sure if any of the TSP substitutes will work, but that's what I've heard. Hope it helps. This sounds like good advice. As a de-greaser, such a TSP solution will remove any and all DWR water-repellant treatments on gear which is so- treated, so if the TSP treatment is successful, wash/rinse the gear REALLY well, allow to dry 100%, and re-apply DWR as needed. |
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Posted: 8/31/2015 8:59:13 AM EDT
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What about something like this? It supposed works good for getting odors out of cars.
Also, I bought a shirt off eBay that was sprayed with some sort of nasty smelling perfume. Soaking it in Oxyclean and repeated washings didn't help take the smell out. I hung it outside on a windy sunny day and the smell was gone by evening. |
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Posted: 8/31/2015 4:39:06 PM EDT
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As a de-greaser, such a TSP solution will remove any and all DWR water-repellant treatments on gear which is so- treated, so if the TSP treatment is successful, wash/rinse the gear REALLY well, allow to dry 100%, and re-apply DWR as needed. Good tip about the DWR. 
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Posted: 8/31/2015 5:10:11 PM EDT
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Good tip about the DWR.
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As a de-greaser, such a TSP solution will remove any and all DWR water-repellant treatments on gear which is so- treated, so if the TSP treatment is successful, wash/rinse the gear REALLY well, allow to dry 100%, and re-apply DWR as needed. Good tip about the DWR.
I add about a teaspoon of TSP to every wash load of laundry, and my dishwasher anyway. Because that's what they took out of detergent back when it worked. Granted, when every dishwasher and clothes washer was using phosphate detergent, it was causing huge algae blooms in lakes rivers etc. wherever wastewater got out, but if a few people in the know kept on using it, it isn't significant. 
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