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Best home air fresheners?

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alkemyst

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I am returning to living on my own and want to spice up my house. I like the way a lot of the stores in the malls smell and many seem to use those oil burners.

I tried a few but the bulbs tend to burn out quickly. It may be the price to play, but I am looking for our forums input.

Also if using oils, what are your favorites?

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I like incense, and I also like candle based potpourri burners. I get tired of everything being high tech and digital.
 
Burning Essential Oil may be useful to change the house air..
But I usually open all windows and air vent,the natural breath is the best!
 
Put fresh pieces of pine in the return duct. Especially knots, those smell great. Candles work too, but may be a fire hazard with the cats. They get curious and may paw at it and make it fall over. You can get some that are like a candle but it has a light that heats it up, and it has the same effect.

For killing smells, you can put stuff like vinegar inside the furnace humidifier if you have one. It will circulate throughout the whole house.
 
Wow, I dunno, I don't think my house stinks, but my bedroom does in the summer sometimes, it's from the attic.

Incense, there are many kinds and qualities.

Burn a little sage, it has a nice smell, kind of like incense.

Cedar gives off a scent like an air freshener.

I'd never buy something in a spray can, myself.
 
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Put fresh pieces of pine in the return duct. Especially knots, those smell great. Candles work too, but may be a fire hazard with the cats. They get curious and may paw at it and make it fall over. You can get some that are like a candle but it has a light that heats it up, and it has the same effect.

For killing smells, you can put stuff like vinegar inside the furnace humidifier if you have one. It will circulate throughout the whole house.
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Those are some good ideas. When you say return duct, do you mean at the furnace end, or in each room's return duct? We have a furnace humidifier also, but I don't think the vinegar thing will work on it. Ours has a water hookup that just runs water through plastic channels into the filter, and then right down the drain.
 
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Are they safe? I know a few volunteer firemen that advise against using these. Do a lot of fires start because of these?
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I've never heard of anyone having a problem with them personally, but I guess it could happen. *shrug*
 
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Those are some good ideas. When you say return duct, do you mean at the furnace end, or in each room's return duct? We have a furnace humidifier also, but I don't think the vinegar thing will work on it. Ours has a water hookup that just runs water through plastic channels into the filter, and then right down the drain.
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In the rooms would be supplies. Returns are the ones that suck air, so just in any one.

And yeah would not work for a "pass through" humidifier, but the ones that hold water and fill as the water evaporates, it would work. Its also a good idea to put disinfectant in there once in a while anyway as you can get legionaires disease and other stuff. They're more economical than pass threw but do require more maintenance. I clean mine out every year, it's gross the gunk that builds up in there!
 
2 great brands. Yankee candle and Bath and body works.
Those brands are excellent due to strength and longevity, they are pricey however.
Either candles or oils, just one or two will freshen up a whole house...overpowering in small rooms.

Most other brands and types like can sprays or cheap candles are not nearly as effective in duration and strength per room size.
 
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