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 Post subject: Is Banking Soda safe on (sealed) hardwood floors?
PostPosted: Sat Sep 11, 2010 11:05 pm 
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My mom and I don't know what to do. We are chemically sensitive and we searched for more than a year to find a non-toxic sealer for the floor. We ended up using Safecoat.

The house was built in 1960 and has original hard wood floors, but we had always had carpet, but pulled that up a year ago to use the original oak wood floors.

We were thrilled to find safecoat which did NOT spell in the tube it came in and we tested a small section, no smell.

But, when it was used the safecoat on the oak wood floors (after sanding) the smell was horrific. We had to spend 10 nights in a hotel (after finding one we could breathe in).

It has now been 3 weeks and there is still a bit of an odor, not bad, we got rid of about 85%, but we still cannot use that part of the house.

We have tried fans, outgassed with the heater after safecoat was applied.

We have about 10 boxes of Baking Soda in each room. They ARE helping, but I did an online search and found someone who just poured the baking soda on the hard wood floors.

Is that SAFE? Would it ruin the floor at all? How can I be sure? I am stuck and it has been three horrible weeks.


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 Post subject: Re: Is Banking Soda safe on (sealed) hardwood floors?
PostPosted: Sat Sep 11, 2010 11:07 pm 
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I just want to add half the house is tile (which is the area we are living in). The back of the house (bedrooms) are all hardwood. We can't even go in there.

The only thing we want to do is get rid of the odor. It will be a one time using of baking soda.


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 Post subject: Re: Is Banking Soda safe on (sealed) hardwood floors?
PostPosted: Sat Sep 11, 2010 11:50 pm 
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Which Safecoat product did you use?

I would not recommend spreading baking soda over the floor, it's a fine powder and will be lodged in the seams and grain of the wood, it would be a nightmare to clean, very possible you could literally be stuck with it in your wood.

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 Post subject: Re: Is Banking Soda safe on (sealed) hardwood floors?
PostPosted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 11:03 am 
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its probally trapped in the furnishings, odors get trapped in curtains, furniture rugs ect. That product is supposed to be inert so I cant explain why you still have a smell after two weeks. Best thing imo is to open all the windows and put a fan blowing out in them like you have already. Once the film dries completly it will not gass off any more and you problem should go away as well.

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 Post subject: Re: Is Banking Soda safe on (sealed) hardwood floors?
PostPosted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 7:32 am 
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Call your insurance company, not because you have a claim, since you dont, but to ask for the phone number of one of their restoration companies. There is a product used by them called something like an: Odour Sponge" that they use all the time, for various applications, a fire (smoke), long term power outage (fridges, freezers, etc.) An undiscovered death in a home (enough said about that).
I had occasion to use a few of them one time, and while they dont have much of an odour themselves, DO NOT SNIFF THEM, I did and ended up with a 3 day nose-bleed. But they work!
In my case it was a freezer with some beef and deer meat in it that got unplugged by a vengeful tenant and I didnt notice for about a week. But I got hold of one of these from an insurance contractor we work for, and a couple days later :Voila, good as new.

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