Get Rid Of Odors In Your RV

Summer is around the bend and it is time to plan those fun family vacations with the RV.

If you haven’t been in your RV for a while throughout the winter months, you may experience some foul odors lurking in your RV when you go to get it ready for the warmer months.

Tobacco smoke, kitchen, road kill, skunk, gasoline, smog, “doggie”, urine, mold/mildew, bathroom, and holding tank odors are common odors that stink up our RVs. Air fresheners just mask the odors and often smell worse than the offensive odor. RV detailing is expensive, and shampooing often just spreads the smell around.

Earth Care Odor Remover Bags can simply be hung in your RV and they will completely eliminate all these odors. Earth Care draws in odors like a powerful magnet. The odors are adsorbed, and neutralized without any fragrances. It is made from an all-natural mineral, is non-toxic,  biodegradable and safe for Planet Earth.

Clear the Air is also safe around children and pets even if eaten. It does not have to come into contact with odor producer to eliminate the odor. Earth Care does not cover up odors it literally “clears the air” leaving the air fresh and clean.

Directions To Eliminate Odors From Your RV

• Hang or place one bag in bathroom, and one in kitchen area, each bag covers approximately 100 square feet.
• Leave windows open for air circulation.
• Do not set bag in direct sun.
• If there are strong odors in your RV you may also want to sprinkle Clear The Air Odor Eliminator for Carpets and Furniture on all upholstery and carpet. Leave down overnight and vacuum. All odors will be completely eliminated.
• The bags will continue to eliminate new odors for up to 3 months. Each bag will cover approximately 100 square feet, some air circulation is best.

How Do I Know If I Have Rodents In My Home?

Mice, rats and other rodents can cause a lot of damage in your home. Not only do they carry and spread disease, they can chew on everything causing property damage and even risk of fire when chewing on electrical wiring.

Clear the Air would like to share some tips on how to find out if you have a rodent infestation in your home. Remember to use our Clear the Air Odor Eliminator Bag to eliminate any dead rodent odors from your home, garage, shed or anywhere else.

Droppings of feces are one of the easiest ways to know you have an infestation. You may notice them in your garage on the rafters, on boxes, or anywhere else high up the rodents are running around.

Use a black light to see rodent urine. It will be a bluish to yellowish white color. Not all fluorescent colors you see under black light in your home may be rodent urine. Many bleaches and lubricating oil will show up under black light too.

Mice mark their trail with their urine for other mice to follow their tracks to food sources. If you find a urine trail into your home, make sure to block the entrance to avoid mice from getting in.

Check corners in your home for food stashes and nests made by mice and/or rats. Another way to find out if you have rodents in your home is to look for chewed corners of boxes and wires.

If you have a rat or mouse die in your home, the odor can be so bad you can’t be in your home. Fortunately our Clear the Air Bags don’t have to come in contact with the odor producer, thus avoiding the huge task of taking down drywall to remove the dead carcass. All you have to do is simply hang the bag where the odor is strongest and within 24 hours the odor is eliminated. Sometimes two bags may have to be used if the dead rodent odor is extremely strong.

Do you have questions about our product? Call or email Pat in our customer service department!

Keep Rodents Out Of Your RV

While your RV is in storage this winter, you will want to keep unwanted animals out of your camper. We have some helpful tips from Ehow.com about deterring rodents from your RV.

Remember, if you have the unfortunate experience of opening your RV to find rodents have made their home in your RV for the last few months, eliminate the odor with our collection of Odor Eliminator Products.

Mice and other rodents frequently enter campers and cause damage to the interior. Mice enter through small holes in the exterior of the camper; these holes are usually located on the underside of the structure. Pest control precautions are especially necessary before storing your camper for the season.

What you’ll need to deter rodents from your RV – A can of expandable foam, glue traps and ultrasonic rodent deterrent.

• First you will want to search the exterior of the camper for any holes.
• If you find any, point the can of expandable foam at the holes. Depress the can’s nozzle, and fill the holes with expandable foam. Repeat this process around all unwanted openings.
• Next you will want to place mousetraps around the outside of the camper. This will hinder the mice from entering your camper.
• You might want to also install an ultrasonic rodent-control-device. These devices emit sounds that deter mice from entering the camper.
• Lastly, spread mothballs around the inside of the camper. Please note, if you place mothballs inside the camper AND place your Odor Eliminator Bags in the camper, the bags will work to eliminate the moth ball odor, thus less efficiently removing any dead rodent odors. Our suggestion is to take the moth balls out of your RV should you already have odors from rodents, then place the Odor Eliminator Bags in the camper.

Have questions about odors in your RV? Please contact our customer service (located in the USA) and we’d be happy to help answer any questions you may have.

Helping Hurricane Sandy Victims

Clear the Air would like to help those in need on the East Coast whom have been affected by Hurricane Sandy.  We recently came across this article about the rat population who were washed out of the subway systems.  Good news it appears most of the rats have died, bad news now they are going to stink!

Here is how we can help: Our product eliminates those odors and is completely non-toxic and safe even  if ingested by pets or children.  We are offering a discount to anyone affected by the hurricane.

Please visit our website to learn more about the product: www.cleartheair.com. If you are in an area that has been affected by Hurricane Sandy please send us an email or call us to receive the special discount pricing.

Special Pricing:

Case of 12 Carpet and Furniture Odor Eliminator Canisters: Regular price $119.88/case – Hurricane Sandy Price $40.00/case

Earth Care Odor Eliminator Bags – Regular Price $11.99/bag – Hurricane Sandy Price $$9.99/bag  (Minimum of 6 bags)

Freight added to above prices.

At last some good news for New Yorkers: Thousands of RATS may have drowned in superstorm as water swept into city’s tunnels.  By Louise Boyle

In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, fears were rife that the streets would be overrun with rats escaping the flooded tunnels and subways.

But it now looks as if those fears may have been groundless as there have not, as yet, been any reports of rodents roaming the streets.

Experts are saying the water likely rushed into tunnels so fast that the rats – despite being strong swimmers – had no time to escape and died.

Sam Miller, a spokesman for the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, told Forbes the city has not seen an increase in rats above ground caused by Sandy, adding that while flooding normally does drive them to the streets, it ‘also drowns young rats in their burrows and can reduce the rat population’.

Rodentologist Robert Corrigan, who works with the city on keeping populations under control, told LiveScience that baby rats will likely die unless they are carried to safety by their mothers.

Another expert, Herwig Leirs, a rodentologist at the University of Antwerp in Belgium, confirmed that most would drown.

‘Rats will be carried away by the current and won’t be strong enough to swim to the surface and breathe, or they’ll be pushed to grates, they will get stuck there and they won’t be strong enough to swim against the current,’ he said.

However, the rats that are able to survive the floodwaters will be treated to a surge of garbage and food to feast on once things have dried out.

According to NBC, approximately 28 million rats live in the subway tunnels of New York. Whether they pose a health risk in the aftermath of the hurricane depends how quickly the water evaporates and how quickly subway crews can clean out the tunnels.

Rick Ostfeld of the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Milbrook, New York, earlier told The Huffington Post that if rats were forced out of their lairs, this could result in a rise in infectious diseases carried by urban rodents, including leptospirosis, hantavirus, typhus, salmonella, and even the plague.

Article found at: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2225935/Hurricane-Sandy-probably-wiped-New-Yorks-rats-despite-warnings-rodent-apocalypse-say-experts.html

Greetings From Down Under

Greetings from Australia!  We are attending the FAOPMA (Federation of Asian and Oceania Pest Manager Associations) Show in Adelaide Australia.  We are here to support our Australian and Asian distributors and to educate Pest Control Operators about Earth Care Odor Eliminators.

We also get to enjoy this beautiful country and wonderful people who make us feel so welcome.

Clear the Air is now in over 20 countries world wide!  Thanks to the Pest Control Industry, we have been able to grow our business tremendously and it has been because of attending these pest control shows.

We are “made in the USA and sold in China”!

Check out where we’re at:

AGRICULTURAL SUPPLY

760 737-2282

1435 Simpson Way

Escondido, CA 92029

Bag Stock #: Earth Care Bag

States covered: Southern California

BUG OFF PEST CONTROL CENTER

212 781-2304

1085 Saint Nicolas Ave.

New York, NY 10023

Bag Stock #: Earth Care Bag

States Covered: NY, NJ

WINFIELD (Formerly ESTES INC)

800 562-8123

1925 John Carpenter Fwy, Suite 525

Irving, TX 75063

Bag Stock #: 142601

States Covered: TX, AR, OK, CO, NE, SD

EHRICH DISTRIBUTION (RENTOKIL USA)

888 225-6080

500 Spring Ridge Drive

Wyomissing, PA 19610

Bag Stock #: 164533

Granules – 21 oz canister Stock #: 164532

States Covered: PA, MD, VA, NC

FORSHAW DISTRIBUTION704 372 6790650 State StreetCharlotte, NC 28208Odor Remover Bag Stock #: EAR01230States Covered:FL,GA,OH,NC,TN
GeoTech SUPPLY COMPANY LLC800 589 0541 555 North Guild AveLodi, CA 95240Bag Stock # B193892Granules BucketStates Covered:� CA,OR,WA,NV

JOHN DEERE LANDSCAPES (TURFCARE SUPPLY)

Phone: 770 277-4877

At participating locations in the U.S.A.

Bag Stock #: 091193

Granules 21 oz canister Stock # 091195

Bucket 9 lb Stock # 091194

OLDHAM CHEMICAL CO.

706 855-6832

3701 New Getwell Road

Memphis, TN 38118

Bag Stock #:450-020-1

States Covered: LA, AL, MS, TN, AR, KY, GA, MO

PRECISION CHEMICALS

(225) 752-4565

11114 CEDAR PARK AVE, SUITE A

BATON ROUGE, LA 70809

States Covered: LA, AR, MS, AL

RESIDEX

800 998-2847

570 SOUTH AVENUE EAST

CRANFORD, NJ 07016

Bag Stock #: EARTB193892

States Covered: ALL EASTERN STATES

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RHODES CHEMICAL Co.

800 255 0051

1129 Merriam Lane

Kansas City KS 66103

Bag Stock # ECP193892

States Covered:� North Central USA

TARGET SPECIALTY PRODUCTS� (and B&G CHEMICALS)

562 802-2238

15415 Marquardt Avenue

Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670

Bag Stock #: 2234001

Granules – 14 oz canister Stock #: 2234002

Granules 9 pound Bucket Stock #: 2234009

States Covered: AZ, CA, NV, OR

UNIVAR USA (& SMCPOH)

800 888-4897

Bag Stock #: 641915

Granules – 14 oz canister Stock #: 641916

Granules-9 pound Bucket Stock #: 641917

States Covered: ALL STATES & CARRIBEAN

WAXIE SANITARY SUPPLY

Phone: 858 292-8111

9353 Waxie Way

San Diego, CA 92123-1012

Bag Stock # 165300

States covered: CA

WCS – WILDLIFE CONTROL SUPPLIES

860 844-0101

www.wildlifecontrolsupplies.com

17 Connecticut South Drive

East Grandby, CT 06026

Bag Stock # B193892

Skunk Stock # SKUNKC

Bucket Stock # BU9C

States covered: ALL

AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND

GARRARDS PESTICIDES

(073) 881-1693

32 Kenworth Place

Brendale, QLD 45005

Bag Stock #: ODOUR/BAG

Contact:Craig Warnes craig@garrards.com.au

Serves: Australia, New Zealand

GLOBE AUSTRALIA PTY

Phone: (02) 87113 5555

Fax: (02) 8713 5550

87 Allingham Street

Condell Park, NSW 2200

Australia

Bag Stock #

Granules 14 oz canister Stock# PAT156

Granules 9 lb. bucket Stock# PAT155

Email: jgreen@globeaustralia.com.au

RURAL CONTROL

Tel: +61 2 9450 3555

Fax: +61 2 9450 3535

14 Narabang Way, Suite 16

Belrose, NSW 2085

Australia

Granules 28 oz canister Stock# PETODOR28OZ

AGSERV PTY LTD

Tel: 02 9647 2111

Fax:� 02 9648 2262

61105 Derby St.

Silverwater, NSW 2128

Australia

email:� eris@agservaustralia.com

Bags

CANADA

AGRIUM (NU-GRO LTD)

519 757-0077

10 Craig Street

Brantford, ON N3R7J1

Bag Stock #: 5540310

Granules – 9 pound Bucket Stock #: 5540320

Providences covered: ALL

DITCHLING CORPORATION LTD

416 264-3497

2244 Kingston Road

Scarborough, ON M1N 1T9

Bag Stock #: 90011

Granules – 9 pound pail Stock #:91091

GARDEX CHEMICALS – ONTARIO

416 675-1638

7 MERIDIAN ROAD

ETOBICOKE, ON M9W 4Z6

Bag Stock #: 314072

Granules 14 oz canister Stock# 314066

GARDEX CHEMICALS – QUEBEC

514 335-1686

2982 Halpern St.

Ville St. Laurent, Quebec H4S 1R2

Bag Stock #: 314072

Granules 14 oz canister Stock# 314066

GARDEX CHEMICALS – BC

604 421-6445

3123 Thunderbird Crescent

Burnaby, BC V5A 3G1

Bag Stock #: 314072

Granules 14 oz canister Stock# 314066

INTEGRATED PEST SUPPLIES, LTD

604 520-9900

360 EDWORTHY WAY, UNIT 8

NEW WESTMINSTER, BC V3L 5T8

STOCK#:EARTH CARE BAG

UNIVAR CANADA

416 908 2745

5840 Falbourne Street

Mississauga, ON L5R 4B5

Odor Remover Bag Stock #: 781563

CENTRAL AMERICA

TROLEX

Tel:� 503 2534 5555

Calle Gerardo Barrios #1722

Colonia Cucumacayan

San Salvador

El Salvador, Guatamala, & Hondouras

Contact:� Salvador Parras

email:� Salvador.parras@trolex.com.SV

UNIVAR MEXICO

555 515-8893

Benjamin Gomez

Locations throughout Mexico

Bag Stock #: 641915

UNITED KINGDOM, IRELAND, EUROPE, & MIDDLE EAST

CAPITAL PEST CONTROL

Tel:� ++356 21 41059

Fax:� ++ 356 21 422416

13, Triq L-Iskultur

Qomi

Malta Orm 3582

Bags, Cansiters, Buckets

JONES & SON PEST CONTROL SUPPLIES

+01626 835055

UNIT 4, SABRE BLDGS

SABRE CLOSE

HEALTHFIELD INDUSTRIAL ESTATE

NEWTON ABBOT TQ12 6TW

UNITED KINGDOM

Email: daveb@jonesandson.co.uk

Serves: United Kingdom

BAG STOCK#: RODE0085 Professional Odour Remover

PROTECTA S.A.

39 Ag. Paviou str

121 32 Peristeri, Greece

Tel:(+30) 210 85 42 220

Fax: (+30) 210 85 42 253

Web:www.protecta-health.gr

Email: mlekkos@protecta-health.gr

Serves:GREECE

ECOVAR

PO Box 212678

Dubai, UAE

Tel +971 4 328 5266

Fax +971 4 328 5377

Web www.ecoargroup.com

Email Hani@ecovargroup.com

Serves:UAE, SAUDI ARABIA

KILLGERM CHEMICALS LTD

Tel: +44 (0)1924 268400
Fax: +44 (0)1924 267874

113 WAKEFIELD ROAD

OSSETT, WEST YORKSHIRE WF5 AR

UNITED KINGDOM

Serves: UK, Ireland, Germany, Poland, Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Portugal

BAG STOCK#: ODOURBAG

Email: peter.fielding@killgerm.com

PPS GmbH

Tel: 0 71 53/825 35-12

Fax: 07153/8 25 33-97

Max-Eyth-Strabe 13

Hochdorf D-73269

Serves: Germany, Switzerland

Email: hirschmeier@pps-vertrieb.de

Bags

SERVEM LIMITED (Maxboley, Duncormick, Co.,Wesford, Ireland)

Tel: 353 51 563530

Fax: 353 51 563531

Serves: UK, Ireland, Middle East

Bag Stock #: Earth Care Bag

Email: info@servemlimited.com.

PEST CONTROL PRODUCTS OOD

Tel:� (+359 2) 9451495

Store 1,2 Benjo Tsonev Str.

Kiv. Ievski

Sofia 1517

Bulgaria

Email:� Jordon.pcp@gmail.com

Bags, Canisters

AFRICA

PATHOGEN & ENVIRONMENTAL

27 33 346 2954

UNIT 10, HALSTEAD RD

M KONDENI,

PEITERMARITZBURG 3200

REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA

BAG STOCK #: 234

Email: reon@pathogensolutions.co.za

SAMBID NIGERIA LIMITED

234 1 79025 90

Email: info@sambidng.com

2, OWOEYE CLOSE

OGBA

LAGOS, NIGERIA

EARTH CARE BAGS

GRANULES, 9 POUND BUCKET

GRANULES, 14 OUNCE CANISTERS

ASIA

BENTZ JAZ CHINA

Tel:� 86-22-84269868

Fax:� 86-22 84269878

Tianjin Huihuazhuoyue

Technology Co Ltd

No. 168 Jiulong Street

Shuanggang Zone Jinnan 300350

China

Contact:� Liu Xing Gang

lxg@bentzjaz.com.cn

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BENTZ JAZ SINGAPORE

Tel: 65-6841 2986

Fax 65- 6841 2026

48 Toh Guan Road East #06-139

Enterprise Hub 608586

Singapore

Contact:� Allan Heng

allanheng@bentzjaz.com .sg

Clear the Air Testimonials

Nothing is stronger than a positive testimonial about a business’s product.

We thought we’d compile a bunch of our testimonials so you can see the various odors Clear the Air will successfully eliminate!

Testimonial on Cat Urine Odor:

The product is amazing. I have tried so many other products and companies. I recently spent over $300 for someone to clean the carpets and use a secret “proprietary” formula that didn’t work. We have five cats, and if one is sick or has an accident, the others will quickly follow suit. Right now, with the product working on a couple of areas, there is no odor in the house. That is just amazing.

Thank you, Lynn

Testimonial on Doggie Odor in the basement:

No THANK YOU! This stuff is amazing! It saved me a bundle by not having to replace the basement carpet because of the strong “doggie” odor. Now it’s like there never was a dog in my new home. Thanks so much for making this available. I’ve already recmmended it to several friends.

DH

Testimonial on Dead Animal Odor:

We’ve spent the weekend trying to eliminate a “dead animal” smell from our upstairs bedroom in our three year old home (something got into the walls and died). My little doxie Milo alerted me to the problem and has been going crazy, sniffing and trying to show me that there is something in there.

We tried everything – vinegar, baking soda, ionizer, etc; nothing helped and the 90 plus degree heat today made it really awful! I was ready to call a disaster restoration service or critter control to address the odor.

In desperation, we searched the web and found Clear the Air information; we took your advice to go to Petco and make our own bags.  I made two bags from nylon hose and hung them around the closet and room. It’s only been a few hours and the difference is already unbelievable! Even Milo isn’t interested in sniffing it out anymore.  I anticipate that tomorrow will be even better.

What a great product – we will definitely use Clear the Air for  the garage, dog crate, etc. –hopefully we won’t run into any  more dead critters in our walls.

Sincerely, Lynne P. in Valencia, PA

Testimonial on Vacuum use:

LOVE your stuff! The pellets! A “bonus” is when you vaccuum them up, they stay in the vaccuum and I no longer smell the dog everytime I vaccuum! When dumping filter, I NEVER dump the pellets! Vacuuming is now not a “smelly” job. 🙂

Testimonial on Dead Rodent Odor:

I wanted to write to you to say how impressed I am with your products.

I had a terrible rodent infestation in an entire side of my house.  We had had a pest service come in to rid the house of pests, and I had also been mitigating all points of entry rodents were taking advantage of as they came out of the cold from the surrounding forest, and build nests for the winter.  I discovered the location of the nest by the odor of what smelled like old garbage coming from my 4 year old son’s bedroom wall and also an overpowering smell of urine coming from the basement play room directly underneath his room. After identifying the location of the smell, I completed demolition on a 20 foot by 15 foot area of the exterior wall of my house.  As I had suspected, there was significant rodent damage.

The condition of the wall was horrific: the insulation was all eaten away, and there were enormous rodent nests.  The worst part was there was so much feces and urine that combined with the contents of the nest, insects and bio-matter from decayed rodents, it had all permeated the sheathing, sheetrock, studs, joists, and concrete foundation from the second floor all the way to the sill plate and foundation.

After clearing out all the debris, and pounds of rodent feces and desiccated remains in the basement ceiling,  I spent an entire week, after removing all the exterior sheathing of the effected wall, and leaving the wall exposed to the outside drying out the studs, and cleaning it with industrial grade, scented disinfectant.  After replacing the sheathing that was rotting from the urine, and treating everything I could, multiple times, with disinfectant, I discovered that after sealing it all up I still had a phantom smell of the nest and urine.  It wasn’t as bad, but it was obviously the same smell, especially when there was an increase in humidity and the house was closed up, especially my son’s room.

Out of desperation I began searching the Internet for answers.  I came across Earth Care products when I typed in “how to get rid of dead rodent stink”, and was encouraged when I saw that your products were non-toxic, especially having three kids all 5 and under.

I bought three bags and placed them in the large basement room where the urine smell was the most overwhelming.  In just one day the smell had decreased by at least half.  The second day the small was almost impossible to discern.  By the third day there was no trace. It was incredible!  What was so amazing was that they didn’t need to come in contact with the effected area, just be near it.  That was key, since I had already sealed it up.

This product is amazing.  Despite having done my best to improve the air quality of my home, apart from burning the house down and starting over, I have a significant peace of mind knowing my children are not breathing that wretched air from a rodent’s nest. I am ordering more bags for the rest of the house.  Thank you, is all I can say.  I would be delighted to provide a testimony for the efficacy of your product.  I am a grateful and passionate client!

Jason

Keeping Pests Out The Green Way

No one wants pests in their home.

Unfortunately many solutions to getting rid of pesky pests involve harmful pesticides which are poisonous to you, your children and your pets.

As a green product itself, Clear the Air likes to find green solutions to keeping pests out of your home.  We would like to share some helpful tips on keeping your home pest free, naturally!

Once summer time approaches, bugs start making an appearance in homes across the U.S. From ants to wasps to millipedes, our first instinct is to spray them down with as much poison as it takes to make them stop.  Our natural instinct to getting rid of insects, no matter how many legs they may have, is usually to use bug killer.

Before spreading poison throughout your living environment, which you, your children, and pets will breathe in, try these all-natural alternatives.

Prune Shrubs – To control pests inside the house, a lot of work needs to be done outside the house. Insects often find their way into the house by climbing on shrubs and trees that are touching the outside walls of your house. Trim everything back so there is a foot clearance between plants and exterior walls.

Rake – Likewise, many insects that live in leaf and lawn debris are going to find easy access indoors if they are hanging out near the foundation of your house. Rake this area well. Pull weeds and only keep plants and shrubs that are well cared for near your foundation. Anything that is dead or dying will attract insects.

Say No to Wood Chip Mulch – It is popular right now to cover flower beds with wood chip mulch. The problem with this is that insects, like carpenter ants and termites, love wood chips. Putting food for them near the foundation of your house isn’t the best idea. They will easily travel from the flower beds to the interior of your home. If you must cover the dirt in your flower beds with something, consider rubber mulch, such as Everlast Rubber Mulch. An additional benefit of Everlast Rubber Mulch is that it is made of 100% recycled tires.

Clean the Kitchen – Summertime and ants go hand in hand. They often infest a kitchen faster than you can put the cap on the soda bottle. To prevent an all you can eat ant buffet, keep your kitchen clean. Washing dishes after each meal and putting all food away in the refrigerator will go a long way towards keeping the ant pests out of your house. If you do have a trail of ants leading to your kitchen, find the source. Are they swarming to the sticky spot under the stove? Clean it up and spray the whole length of the trail with vinegar to clean off any scent they may have left.

Look to Old-Fashioned Remedies – If your house is plagued with ants, chances are you’ve got some ant hills in the yard. An old-fashioned remedy is to boil a pot of water on the stove and poor it down the ant hill. If you do a few a day, you will soon have greatly decreased the number of ants sharing your property.

Once you’ve poured boiling water on all the ant hills, mix some borax and powdered sugar together. Put some on a plastic lid and place it in any area that ants congregate. Only do this if you don’t have pets or small children that are likely to find it. The ants will take the borax and sugar mixture back to their nest, hopefully killing their queen.

Relax – Most insects won’t kill you, but the poison you spray on them might. So, if your insect problem is minor, then don’t worry about it too much. Take some preventative measures and let it go.

Keep Skunks Away From Your Home

If you have ever had an encounter with a skunk and he got the best of you, you know how difficult it can be to rid the odor.

Thankfully Clear the Air has an easy solution to completely eliminating skunk odor quickly and effectively.  In order to avoid any interactions with skunks in the future, here are some great ways to keep skunks away from your home.

Skunks are scavengers and will eat anything from bugs to garbage. If a skunk finds a tasty morsel on your land, chances are good that he’ll start visiting more often. This section will walk you through some steps to repel skunks from your property.

Eliminate enticing meals for skunks. Skunks are nocturnal, so you’re most likely to see and/or smell them at night and in the early morning when they’re out scavenging for food. Skunks can and do eat anything; bird eggs, bugs and larvae, human wastes, small rodents, you name it – they’ll eat it. Following is a list of the most common foods that attract skunks onto people’s property:

Unprotected garbage. When you transfer your trash outside for pickup, store it in heavy duty metal or plastic trash cans with lids that will stay on even if the can is knocked over. Never place unprotected bags out on the curb.

Grubs and larvae. Skunks love grubs! Grubs are beetle larvae that live underneath of your lawn. Skunks are known for digging small holes in peoples yards as they hunt for them. Luckily, beneficial nematodes also love to eat grubs, and are easily deployed in your lawn and garden to eliminate this attractant.

Pet food. Never leave unprotected animal food outside at night, it’s akin to setting a place at your dinner table for Pepé le Pew. If you leave out scraps for neighborhood stray cats, you may end up attracting the neighborhood skunks as well.

Nuts, berries, and fruits. If you have bushes or trees that bear fruits, nuts, or berries you should periodically walk your yard and remove any that have fallen to the ground. Skunks will happily feast on them, and so will rodents… which skunks will also happily eat.

Other attractants. While the above food sources are the most common culprits that attract skunks, there are more. If any of these exist on your property, do your best to minimize or eliminate them.

• Compost heaps containing bones, fruit rinds and egg shells.
• Large numbers of ground dwelling insects under dead leaves and foliage.
• Easily accessible water sources.
• Bird feeder spills.

Skunk repellents

Many folks swear by this or that for repelling skunks, but there seems to be little that delivers consistent results across the board. Here’s a list of the most effective skunk repellents:

• Bright light – Skunks are nocturnal and prefer to stay hidden, flooding an area with light can be an effective deterrent. Use flood lights in combination with motion sensors.
• Automated sprinklers
• Spicy pepper solutions – Pepper sprays are reported to work well but must be reapplied every few days to remain effective.
• Commercial repellents – There are many available types, people have also reported success with dog and cat repellents.

Skunks will make homes underneath houses, sheds, decks, and other above-ground structures. Seal them off as well as possible – remember that they can fit through holes as small as 4 inches. Skunks won’t burrow underneath them unless they can see that there is space on the other side. Fill in holes and ditches as well.

Enclose large, open areas with a three-foot high wire mesh fencing like chicken wire and it one foot deep to keep skunks from burrowing underneath.

If you do end up getting sprayed by a skunk, immediately sprinkle Clear the Air’s Skunk Odor Eliminator on your, your pet if they’ve been skunked and anything else that may have been touched by the skunk spray.

Keep Rats Out Of Your Home

Do you have a problem with rats infesting your home?

Maybe it has only happened once and the problem was taken care of.  It is important, however, to make sure you take continuous precautionary measures to ensure rats do not become a nuisance in your home again.

If you have a rat die in the walls of your home, the odor can be overwhelming to say the least.  Instead of having to get into the walls of your home to remove the dead carcass, simply hang one or two of our Clear The Air Odor Remover Bags in your home and the odor will be eliminated.  It truly is that easy, guaranteed!

Get familiar with these pests so you are able to know what to do to prevent infestation.  Read below to find out what type of food and housing they are attracted to and how to keep them out:

Where do rats live outside?

• Under wood piles or lumber that is not being used often
• Under bushes, vines and in tall grasses that are not trimmed or cut back
• Under rocks in the garden
• In cars, appliances and furniture that has been put outside and is no longer being used
• In and around trash and garbage that has been left on the ground
• In holes under buildings

Where do rats live inside?

• In the insulation of walls or ceilings
• Inside the crawl spaces
• Behind or under cupboards, counters, bathtubs and shower stalls
• Near hot water heaters and furnaces
• In basements, attics and wherever things are stored in boxes, paper or cloth

What types of food bring rats into my yard and neighborhood?

• Garbage that rats can get into, like garbage cans with loose lids, plastic or paper bags, and litter.
• Food for pets and birds that has not been eaten. Birdseed on the ground, pet food in pet dishes, bread crumbs, etc.
• Fruits and berries that have fallen to the ground.
• Compost pile or worm bin that isn’t taken care of the right way (do not put meat, fish, poultry, or dairy in the compost)
• Dog droppings

What food do rats eat once they are inside the house?

• THE SAME FOODS WE DO!
• Foods, fats, oils that have been spilled and left on counters, floors, appliances and tables
• Grains, like cereal, oats, rice and vegetables like potatoes and carrots that are in cardboard boxes and plastic bags
• Pet food in boxes or bags
• Any garbage that is not in a can with a tight lid

How to keep rats away from your home:

• First of all, do not give food and shelter to these unwanted guests.
• The time to act is before the signs (droppings) of a rat or mouse.
• Stack fire wood 18 inches off the ground and away from all buildings.
• Birdhouses and seed should be on poles and in trays rats can’t get.
• Keep garbage can lids closed tightly.
• Plant bushes so they will stay at least 3 feet from your house.
• Keep yards and alleys clean. Take junk to the dump!
• If you feed them, they will stay. Pick up fruit and vegetables in your yard.
• Do not compost any animal products (fish, meat, chicken, cheese, butter). Keep lids tight.
• Use only rodent resistant composters.
• In basements keep any food in closed containers that rats can’t chew through.
• Cover all openings to your house. Rats can get into very small places.
• Do not leave your pet food outside. If your pet doesn’t eat it, the rats will.
• Roof rats get into your house from tree branches that hang over the roof. Keep trees cut back and cover any openings in the eves.

Dead Rodent Odor

If you have had the unfortunate experience of finding rodents dwelling in the walls of your home, you may have taken some steps to eliminate these rodents.  Unfortunately, when poison is placed in the walls for these rodents, the smelly odor of the dead rodent carcass usually follows soon after.  While you no longer have the problem of a rat infestation, you are now faced with an unavoidable odor that is very obvious to your senses until the rat’s body completely decomposes.

Instead of tearing down the walls in  your house to retrieve the dead carcass and get rid of the odor, you can use a much simpler and cost effective solution – Clear the Air Odor Remover Bags.  Clear the Air Bags do not have to come in contact with the dead rodent or odor causing agent.  Simply hang a bag near the odor and in 24 hours the odor will be gone, 100% guaranteed.  Clear the Air is made from an all natural mineral, is non toxic and biodegradable – all safe for Planet Earth!

If you have a strong odor in your house and can not get to the source to remove it, Clear the Air Odor Remover Bags are what you need.  Click Here to order bags and learn how to use them.  We guarantee our product 100% and if you have any questions or concerns, click here to call or email us.