How to deodorise your home prior to staging

We’ve all heard the tricks about baking bread and brewing coffee to attract buyers but what if you have the opposite problem - an unpleasant smell perhaps from pet odour or similar.

I’ve recently discovered two amazing products that can remove unpleasant odours in rooms that may put off buyers and the good news is that they are incredibly cheap. Both white wine vinegar and bicarbonate are available at supermarkets and let me tell you - they actually work.

I had a perfume smell left by a previous tenant drying washing and we cleaned the room with a vinegar solution and the smell disappeared! The residual vinegar odour was removed by sprinkling the carpet with the bicarbonate of soda, leaving for a few hours and then vacuuming. Simple, cost effective and no nasty chemicals to linger in the air.