Even when it’s used responsibly, you likely don’t want to deal with the smell of cannabis in your facility. These odors can make certain facility users uncomfortable, especially if they have children, and can overall deter guests from visiting—or potential residents from leasing. However, cannabis easily permeates a space, and you can’t stop people from using it, so how do you eliminate these odors?
At Neutron Industries, we manufacture and distribute chemical solutions for several problem categories, including odor control and cannabis odors. The last thing you feel like dealing with is a smelly work environment, so it’s our goal to educate you about effective odor elimination.
To help you determine how to most effectively eliminate cannabis odors in your space, we will explain how to identify the source of the problem, methods of odor control, and how this can impact your facility. After reading, you’ll know the best way to approach your situation.
Identify the Source of the Cannabis Odor
Your first step toward eliminating cannabis odors is to find out where they’re coming from.
This isn’t always an easy task. Sometimes, cannabis odors are strong enough that they seem to occupy the entire building. You may have a hard time narrowing them down to one specific area.
If this sounds like your situation, focus on where the odor is the strongest. Maybe you run an apartment building where floors one to three are fine, but floors four and five are odorous. However, in the halls, you genuinely can’t tell which side of the floor is causing the problem. The good news is that even if you can’t get to the source, you can treat common areas to eliminate this problem. In these situations, don’t worry about the root of the problem—instead, treat the areas affected by the smell.
Meanwhile, in other situations, you might know exactly where this odor seems to originate. Whether it’s a bathroom, locker room, classroom, breakroom, hallway, entryway, or something else, you know that when you walk into this space, you’ll end up wrinkling your nose and groaning. In these situations, you can fight the odor directly at the source, preventing its spread to other parts of the building.
Cannabis odors can occur wherever there are people who might consume this substance—meaning they’re possible virtually anywhere. You may not be able to stop your facility users from partaking in cannabis, but when you know its usual source, you’re already a step closer to fighting these odors.
How to Eliminate Cannabis Odors
Depending on your specific problem area, you have a few options when it comes to cannabis odor elimination.
For problems specific to a particular area (e.g., a fabric couch in a room that was smoked in), use a handheld method of odor spot treatment. This can mean a regular odor eliminator spray or one that specifically targets cannabis and smoke odors. Odor eliminators change the physical composition of odors so that the nose no longer recognizes them. For permeating smells like those of cannabis, this can be a game changer.
Meanwhile, if you have a larger space that smells like cannabis (e.g., an entire hallway), a handheld spray may not cut it. In these cases, you can use an odor-eliminating automated scent diffuser. This will automatically dispense an odor eliminator throughout the room, neutralizing the cannabis smell in the air while simultaneously releasing a pleasant fragrance to give the area a cleaner feel. Scent diffusers are a consistent solution to deal with persistent odors, making them perfect for lingering cannabis smells.
When your problem is particularly powerful, you may even want to combine spot treatment with ambient scenting. This would mean using a handheld odor eliminator to treat the odors at the source and then using ambient scenting to control remaining odors in the air throughout your space. Combination is a comprehensive method perfect for severe, persistent cannabis odors.
Overall Impact of Cannabis Odor Elimination on Your Facility
At the end of the day, ridding your facility of cannabis odors helps to solidify your image as cleaner and more professional. It’s the same as customers being less trusting of businesses that smell like cigarettes or cooked food; malodors of any kind forge a negative association regarding your business in customers’ minds.
Think about a hair salon. If you walked in for a haircut and found the establishment smelling of tuna casserole, how likely would you be to return? Cannabis can have the same effect—especially for guests with children.
Conversely, a pleasant fragrance can create positive associations for visitors. Imagine going into your local recreation center and finding that it smells like fresh linen. You’ll probably view this facility as cleaner and nicer than the rec center in the next town over, which consistently smells like dried sweat.
When you treat your cannabis odors, not only can you avoid the former situation, but you can embody the latter. Scent is a strong trigger of memory. If you use this to your advantage, you enable your facility to be more widely liked.
Explore Neutron Industries’ Cannabis Odor Solutions
Cannabis use in public spaces is becoming more common as new states legalize it each year. Unfortunately, this can sometimes mean more odors in your facility. Now that you know how to control unwanted cannabis odors, consider how Neutron Industries’ Atom Air and No Smoke 420 can eliminate cannabis odors in your facility.