Re: Coffee & Filter as room freshener

[Guest guest]

Hi Group

This is my first Post

I own several rental properties, last year in the middle of summer I

had a tenant die in the second floor of a four unit building. He was

there in 90F+ for 7days before he was discovered. After the the

police and coroner had removed the remains the odour that remained

was terrible. I asked what they recommended for the odour. The

coroner said that what they do for decomp smell is put down a piece

of newspaper in each room and spread fresh coffee grounds out on

them. I had to do three treatments and it did a great job. I have

since used it for cat urine and smoke odour as well!

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> Hey Cheryl -

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> The only time I've heard of coffee grounds being used as an " odor

masker " is

> in the smuggling of drugs. Are you sure the hospital doesn't have

some

> hydroponically grown weed behind curtain #1???!!! That's just odd.

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> Perhaps it's time they check their HVAC filters!

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> Hope you're okay.

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> -Stacey Champion

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> From: iequality [mailto:iequality ]

On Behalf

> Of Cheryl C Crane

> Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 1:17 PM

> To: iequality

> Subject: Re: Coffee & Filter as room freshener

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> WOW, Steve!

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> Thank You for sharing that with me. I hope that others will do

likewise.

> While I'm not sensitive to the coffee grounds, I am sensitive to

what it

> might do to patient's health if they are sensitive.

>

> I rember when carrying our son, I couldn't stand the aroma of

coffee. I

> simply figured it was nature's way of telling me to avoid caffine

while

> preggers. My reference books only speak of the toxicological issues

of

> caffine.

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> Hope that Carl, Gail & Bob will weigh in on this. I will wait a

couple of

> days before approaching the 'environmental department'

(housekeeping) of the

> hospital. ~Cheryl, CIEC

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[Guest guest]

thanks for your recent contribution, " slatusgroup " . and thanks for

lurking through the nonsense that sometimes dominates this group.

a question, if I might: was it your experience that the coffee

grounds were somehow a permanent solution? or was the offending odor

simply masked by the smell of coffee?

that is, once you removed the coffee grounds, did the odor in each

case stay away or reappear? did the coffee odor persist?

again, thanks for your input. we need real life, practical input on

this group, just as much as we need the academic esoterica.

Wane

> >

> > Hey Cheryl -

> >

> >

> >

> > The only time I've heard of coffee grounds being used as an " odor

> masker " is

> > in the smuggling of drugs. Are you sure the hospital doesn't

have

> some

> > hydroponically grown weed behind curtain #1???!!! That's just

odd.

> >

> >

> >

> > Perhaps it's time they check their HVAC filters!

> >

> >

> >

> > Hope you're okay.

> >

> >

> >

> > -Stacey Champion

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> > _____

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> > From: iequality

[mailto:iequality ]

> On Behalf

> > Of Cheryl C Crane

> > Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 1:17 PM

> > To: iequality

> > Subject: Re: Coffee & Filter as room freshener

> >

> >

> >

> > WOW, Steve!

> >

> > Thank You for sharing that with me. I hope that others will do

> likewise.

> > While I'm not sensitive to the coffee grounds, I am sensitive to

> what it

> > might do to patient's health if they are sensitive.

> >

> > I rember when carrying our son, I couldn't stand the aroma of

> coffee. I

> > simply figured it was nature's way of telling me to avoid caffine

> while

> > preggers. My reference books only speak of the toxicological

issues

> of

> > caffine.

> >

> > Hope that Carl, Gail & Bob will weigh in on this. I will wait a

> couple of

> > days before approaching the 'environmental department'

> (housekeeping) of the

> > hospital. ~Cheryl, CIEC

> >

>

[Guest guest]

Slatusgroup,

This may sound silly but is it whole coffee bean

or ground up....(decaf or regular..hehe)

Actually brown paper is a great absorber of odor

in itself but maybe not enough for what you

faced. However I have one of those mangey

beasts, a cat and I bought a special gadget to

put 'solids' into since there was no toilet handy

to litter box. However it was hard to load the

special plastic bags into it and other problem,

so started to use just regular plastic

bag..peehew. Out of plastic bags, I grabbed a

brown paper bag, no odor at all. Just a simple

brown paper bag, folded shut. I can use it all

week and throw it out on garbage day, needed no

special container after all.

I've also read to remove musty smell in furniture

to stuff drawers with brown paper and keep

changing until all odor is gone, so since you

were on subject, thought I would insert that.