# Odor Removal in Lexington, KY

> Odor removal in Lexington KY. Smoke, mold, sewage and animal odors treated at the source rather than masked. Free inspection.

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Smoke, mold, sewage and animal odors, treated at the source. A smell that returns on the first humid day was covered up rather than removed. All Dry Services of the Bluegrass answers live, day or night.

## Odor lives in materials, not in the air

Persistent odor is particles and volatile compounds lodged inside porous material. Drywall, framing, carpet backing, subfloor, upholstery, and in an older Lexington house, plaster and original wood that has been absorbing everything since the 1920s. Nothing sprayed into the air reaches any of that.

This is why a smell that seemed to go away comes back in July. Humidity reactivates residue, so a treatment that only worked on dry air was never a treatment at all.

## What we get called about

- Smoke and soot: After a fire, and the hardest of these to resolve properly.
- Mold and mildew: The musty note usually arrives weeks before anything is visible.
- Sewage and drain backup: Where the odor is a signal that contamination is still present.
- Animal and pet: Including urine that has reached subfloor, which is a removal job not a cleaning one.
- Stale vacancy: Properties closed up for months, common in rentals between tenants.
- Cooking and protein residue: Kitchen fires leave a residue that behaves differently from any other smoke.

## Source first, air last

1. Find what is holding it: The smell is downstream of a material. Until we know which material, nothing else is worth doing.
2. Remove what cannot be cleaned: Carpet pad, saturated subfloor, contaminated insulation. This is usually the step that actually resolves it.
3. Clean what can be kept: Matched to the residue, because the agent that lifts protein smoke is not the one for mold.
4. Treat the remaining porous material: Professional deodorizers and cleaning agents applied to the material itself rather than sprayed into a room.
5. Seal where residue cannot be reached: Framing and subfloor that cannot be extracted fully get sealed rather than left to re-emit.

## Contact

- Phone (Lexington, Georgetown and Nicholasville): (859) 780-7419, answered live 24/7
- Phone (Frankfort, Shelby and surrounding areas): (502) 465-8891, answered live 24/7
- Location: a service-area business with no public address; technicians travel to the property
- Service area: Lexington, Georgetown, Frankfort, Shelbyville, Nicholasville, Versailles, Harrodsburg, Wilmore, Lawrenceburg, Taylorsville, Carrollton, Eminence, Kentucky
- Rating: 5 stars across 35 Google reviews