Can I combat oily odours??

[warrior40]

when I go down to the boat, I come away smelling like a car mechanic. The boat seems to be impregnated in every fibre from , her, once, oily, diesely bilges, uncleaned for years by her uncaring previos owner. Is there any sort of odour neutraliser that I can use/apply to the boat that is known to cure this problem?

cheers

 

[Gunfleet]

Coffee

 

[longjohnsilver]

Bilgex NM

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[vyv_cox]

I can tell you that Sunsail charter fleet engineers use Toilet Duck to kill the smell of diesel.

 

[seaesta]

Bilgex seems to help. Other brands seem less good to me.
Previous postings suggest it is not a solvable problem if you have a wood/ply boat that has been soaked in diesel for a long time.
Some car mechanics are very nice chaps and you could simply resign yourself to occaisionally smelling like one. I expect the bilgex and lots of ventilation will work in time.

 

[Guest]

in my experience, oil will not impregnate grp to the degree where it continues to smell to the extent you describe. you must still have some oil residue / leak down there. find that, and you wont need to disguise the smell with toilet duck.

failing that, try a takeaway curry. that smell seems to linger for ever.

 

[Starspinner]

I cleaned ALL surfaces with Dettol kitchen surface cleaner and washed all fabrics and it cleared up the smell.