TL;DR: what are your tricks to keep the interior air of a house pleasant when living in a stinky locale?
For the next couple years, I am stuck on land* in a house that is occasionally downwind from a paper mill. Holy hell, the smell can be eye-wateringly bad when the winds blow just the wrong way. The house is ~1700 square feet with HVAC.
*I normally live on my sailboat and move around at will.
I have an ozone generator for serious de-stinking, but wow ozone is nasty even in small quantities. I have a Corsi-Rosenthal box, but that does nothing for smells. I was thinking maybe a big tray of activated charcoal in the HVAC intake and another in the CR box. In my experience, the tiny charcoal filters in most air cleaners get saturated in about 48 hours. What works for y’all? Super extra bonus points for ongoing maintenance and cost-reduction tips and tricks.
Thank you fellow Lemmings for anything ya got.
It’s not a pee smell, it’s a musty dander smell.
My hunch is that it’s in the vents, but I got a quote to clean my vents and they wanted like sixteen hundred dollars, so i’m going to be dealing with it for a while.
If the house smelled like piss, I never would have bought it.
I’m certain you have, but it’s worth asking- have you replaced the hvac filters with hepa models? You can also build a cheap air purifier with a box fan and a hepa filter just to run while you’re away and catch anything airborne
Yeah, they’re Merv 13 for the CR filter and merv 17 for the whole house.