Remove Mattress Odor With Nok-Out
Stinky Mattress Keeping You Up at Night?
Mattress Odors are offensive, and often difficult to remove. But, Nok-Out is the solution! Nok-Out will always remove the odor, if it makes direct contact with the source of the odor. Direct contact with all of the stinky stuff is required for Nok-Out to do its work. Given all the layers that comprise your mattress, this may mean you have to think carefully about how to get Nok-Out to go deep into the mattress, where it can come into direct contact with the smelly stuff. Consequently, it is important to identify the site of the stain or contamination as far as possible, and to concentrate your efforts at that source. If you follow these guides, you can safely and permanently remove mattress odor, so you can sleep good again!
Start With a Good Vacuuming
Your mattress is likely to be a place where dead skin cells accumulate. Add sweat and other moisture and you get a breeding ground for little mites that are mostly invisible to the naked eye. A good vacuuming can help take away the food source for those mites. Many Vacuum cleaners have a little “beater’ attachment. If yours has one, use it to help loosen up and get rid of the dust and dead mites clogging the surface of the mattress.
Procedures to Remove Mattress Odor
If the mattress is one of the newer, pillow top kind, and the site of the odor-causing agent is rather new, the odor has probably not penetrated into the sub mattress stuffing, and will be easier to remove. At the site of the odor, spray enough Nok-Out directly onto the contaminated spot so that it is wet. Allow to ‘wick’ into the outer edges of the stain. Let it sit for up to 5 minutes. Sponge dry, and allow to air dry before placing clean sheets on the bed. You may want to use a fan to speed the drying.
If the mattress is an older type, careful saturation of the site is required, following directions above, but covering a larger area, and allowing up to 10 minutes to ‘wick’ into the surrounding area before blotting and allowing to dry.
Mold and Mildew
Mold & mildew poses a different issue, but the removal process is basically the same. If it is simply a surface problem, simply spraying SNiPER on the site of contamination, allowing to air dry will kill the mold and is usually sufficient to deodorize as well. SNiPER is a mild cleanser as well as an odor remover, and fungicide. However, older stains may not be removed entirely. Remember that SNiPER is our fungicide product! Nok-Out will remove any odor, but it is SNiPER that can clean mold.
Other Odors
Odors which have permeated the entire mattress, such as molds, smoke or tobacco smells, are much more difficult to remove because of the larger area of contamination and because they may have penetrated deeper into the mattress. In this instance, spray the entire mattress, top, bottom and sides carefully, spraying seams, buttons (if any), and all corners, or crevices thoroughly. Allow to air dry. Do not blot away any excess. The odor will be immediately removed, but if in a few days, a smell returns, it is because the odors have leached from inside the mattress to the top. Another application is in order should this occur. Through this process, all odors will be eliminated.
The Odor That Keeps Coming Back
You may find that some odor keeps returning. Usually, this is because the odor source has penetrated deeply into the layers of the mattress and Nok-Out did not penetrate deeply enough to come into direct contact with the source. This is a tough case because we mostly don’t know what is beneath the surface material of the mattress. We do know that there may be many layers.
If some kind of mold is growing deep inside the mattress, then SNiPER needs to go that deep down into the mattress as well. The solution here is to dilute SNiPER by 3 parts water and literally our in on the area, allowing gravity to pull it down deep into those layers. This requires several days for drying so do not pour so much liquid onto your mattress and expect to sleep on it that night.
Nok-Out is a safe, non-toxic cleaner that can eliminate mattress odors on contact with the odor source. Follow these instruction so that you can sleep well again!
Questions?
If you have any questions regarding how to apply Nok-Out, or SNiPER® check out our How To Articles or, call Ted Price toll free at 866.551.1927.