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Your Odor Removal Project, From Consultation to Completion
Your project manager walks the home, identifies odor sources, tests where the smell is strongest, and flags contaminated materials like saturated drywall or carpet pad that must be removed rather than sealed. We document everything for insurance.
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Source Assessment & Material Triage. Your project manager walks the home, identifies odor sources, tests where the smell is strongest, and flags contaminated materials like saturated drywall or carpet pad that must be removed rather than sealed. We document everything for insurance.
Hard surfaces are washed with TSP or a specialty degreaser, and ozone or thermal fogging is run when needed. Every contaminated surface is then sealed with a shellac or oil-based odor-blocking primer that locks the source under a non-porous film.
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Cleaning, Optional Treatment & Substrate Sealing. Hard surfaces are washed with TSP or a specialty degreaser, and ozone or thermal fogging is run when needed. Every contaminated surface is then sealed with a shellac or oil-based odor-blocking primer that locks the source under a non-porous film.
Once the primer has fully cured, two coats of standard interior finish go on for a clean, odor-free, paint-ready finish. We do a final walk to confirm there's no residual smell and that all transitions, trim, and adjacent surfaces look factory-fresh.
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Topcoat & Final Walk. Once the primer has fully cured, two coats of standard interior finish go on for a clean, odor-free, paint-ready finish. We do a final walk to confirm there's no residual smell and that all transitions, trim, and adjacent surfaces look factory-fresh.
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"Excellent painting service. Andrés López was very professional from the first contact, meeting deadlines and delivering…"
Viviana Torres
"I had a great experience with this painting company especially with Andres. He was an excellent person from start to fin…"
Yamilet López
"Can't say enough about the job Junior and Fernanda did on our interior and outside stucco. They were attentive to detail…"
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What Odor Removal Costs (2026)
29%
Maximum home value reduction from smoke odor
Realtor.com, 2018
$15,000+
Common price reduction on smoke-affected homes
HomeLight, 2024
#1
Cigarette smell ranked as top buyer turnoff
HSH.com homeowner survey
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Odor Removal FAQs
No. Standard latex paint and standard latex primer are water-based and do not block the organic molecules that cause embedded odors. The smell will return within days or weeks because the source was never sealed. Real odor removal requires a solvent-based or shellac-based primer (like Zinsser B-I-N or Kilz Original) applied to every contaminated surface as a sealant coat, only then is a finish topcoat applied. If a contractor is quoting you a 'fresh coat of paint' to fix a smoke or pet odor, they are not doing odor removal, and the smell will be back.
We address odors that have saturated hard, porous building surfaces, drywall, framing, sealed-coat finishes, baseboards, trim, ceilings. That includes cigarette and tobacco smoke, fire and smoke damage, pet urine and dander, mildew and mild moisture odors, cooking-oil saturation in kitchens (especially older homes), and chemical or off-gassing odors from prior renovations or storage. We do not deodorize carpet, fabric, or upholstered furniture, those are soft goods that need specialty cleaners or replacement. We also coordinate with mold remediation and water-damage restoration companies when active growth or active leaks are involved, since those have to be resolved before sealing.
Most projects run 2 to 5 days for a whole home, 1 to 2 days for a single room. The timeline depends on scope, pure sealing and repaint moves quickly, but if contaminated drywall, carpet pad, or insulation has to be removed and replaced first, that adds days. Ozone treatment, when used, requires the space to be unoccupied for the run-time and ventilated afterward. For insurance-claim fire and smoke jobs, we coordinate timing with your adjuster and any restoration partners on site so we're not stepping on other trades.
Sometimes. Light to moderate smoke damage can almost always be sealed and repainted in place, the shellac primer locks in the residue and stops the off-gassing. Severe fire damage where drywall has charred, soot-saturated, or is structurally compromised has to be removed and replaced before any sealing happens. We make this call during the initial assessment, and on insurance jobs we document the recommendation for your adjuster. The general rule: if the drywall surface is intact and the odor is the main issue, sealing works; if the drywall is failing, replace.
No, and any company that says yes is selling you a deodorizer, not remediation. Soft goods absorb odors throughout the entire fiber, not just the surface, so a topical seal does not work. For pet urine, smoke, or fire-affected carpet, the standard recommendation is replacement (or in some cases, professional in-place ozone treatment by a remediation specialist). We focus on the surfaces where sealing is the right answer, walls, ceilings, trim, framing, and coordinate with carpet, upholstery, and HVAC specialists when those are also part of the scope.
You can apply Zinsser B-I-N or Kilz Original yourself in a small space if you have proper ventilation, the right respirator, and you're willing to do the prep correctly, TSP wash, full surface coverage, and a finish topcoat. That said, most DIY odor removal fails because of three things: under-coverage (one missed seam re-emits the odor), wrong primer (water-based won't work), or skipped substrate cleaning. For whole-home jobs, fire and smoke damage, ozone treatment, or insurance work, this is not a good DIY project. Solvent fumes, ozone safety, and the documentation required for a claim push this into specialty contractor territory.
Ozone is effective at oxidizing embedded smoke and odor molecules, but it is unsafe to breathe at the concentrations used for treatment. The EPA is clear: ozone generators must be run in unoccupied spaces only, and the area must be fully ventilated before people, pets, or plants re-enter. We follow that protocol, homeowners and crew are out during the run, and we ventilate fully before any further work. We do not run ozone in occupied spaces, and we will not sell ozone treatment as a stand-alone fix without the substrate seal that does the long-term work.
We stand behind our work, if a properly scoped and executed odor removal job fails to seal an odor we agreed to address, we come back and make it right under our 3-year warranty. The honest caveat: if there are contaminating materials we recommended removing and the homeowner declined (saturated subfloor, contaminated insulation, soft goods we don't service), the warranty doesn't cover odor that re-emits from those sources. Scope is everything in this category, we're upfront about what sealing alone can fix and what requires removal.
Yes, rental turnover is one of the most common use cases. Pet odors, smoke, and cooking saturation between tenants can sit in the drywall and trim long after a deep clean. A full prime-and-paint with an odor-blocking primer resets the unit to a neutral starting point for the next tenant and prevents the 'this place still smells' complaint after move-in. For high-turnover properties, we often work directly with property managers to scope and price this as a recurring service.
Costs vary widely with scope, a single-room treatment runs roughly $400–$1,500, a whole-home seal-and-repaint typically runs $1,500–$6,000, and severe fire and smoke damage with material removal can run higher and is usually handled through insurance. The biggest variables are square footage, ceiling height, whether contaminated drywall or other materials need to be removed, and whether ozone or thermal fogging is part of the scope. We price after the on-site assessment so the quote reflects the actual condition, not a guess.
If a properly sealed surface starts to off-gas again, we come back. In practice this is rare when the substrate was correctly cleaned, the right primer was used, and full coverage was achieved. The most common reason an odor 'returns' after a seal is that a different source was missed, an HVAC duct that wasn't cleaned, contaminated subfloor under carpet, or a soft good that wasn't replaced. During the return visit we identify the actual remaining source and address it.
Yes. For fire and smoke damage claims, we work directly with adjusters and with your restoration GC if one is already on site. We document scope, products used, surface coverage, and any recommended material removal so the claim file is complete. Reach out through the contact form and mention that it's an insurance job, we'll route it to a project manager who handles claim work and can move quickly to scope and quote.
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