We just got this house and a room smells like cig. smoke.What can you do to get rid of the smell.?
Question:We vaccum the carpets with the floor stuff to make it smell good and we use candales.I was just wondering what else can we do.
Answers:
smoke tabacco for a week.
When we bought our house it really reeked of smoke until we replaced both the carpet and the padding. The smoke smell totally disappeared. It's kind of expensive, but it worked really well.
If you get regular baking soda and fill a few little dishes or saucers with it, it will help absorb some of the smell. Try having your windows open as much as you can. also get your carpet professionally cleaned, wash down your walls, and possibly re-paint.
I rented a place once that was previously occupied by a smoker. Yuck! The smell was on the walls, I had to wipe the ceiling and walls down completely to get the smoke film off, then put a fresh coat of paint on. My landlord credited me for the paint. Not sure about the carpet (mine was hardwood), but I would bet it would need shampooed, or professionally cleaned. Good luck!
replace the carpets, take the paint off the walls and repaint.
The only way to get the smell out is to replace the carpet (sometimes you can get by with cleaning it depending on the thickness of the pad but renting a machine wont work you have to get a professional that uses the industrial strength machines), the pad, and scrub the walls. If it needs paint also make sure you use kills and wipe it down or the discoloration will come through the paint. Cigarette smoke has the same effect as smoke caused by fire in a home. This is the only way you can completely get rid of the smell.
I think the only things you can do to get rid of that smell is to repaint and maybe new carpet. You could also try having the vents cleaned out. Hope this helps.
Wash the walls and ceilings with Murphy's Oil Soap, whether they have washable paint or not...then repaint...wash all trims and railings, etc with Murphy's as well...according to the directions on the bottle for the type of wood it is...
go over the windows with vinegar on a dull day (if you try to clean them on a sunny day, they will streak as the vinegar will dry too quickly), you would not believe how smoke can permeate even glass...this will give everything a fresh new perspective...
you can go to the hardware store and get this scent blocker paint primer...they'll know what you are talking about at Home Depot or wherever...
paint as normal...
get rid of the carpets, if possible and replace with hard floor or new carpet...
as well as any existing draperies and/or blinds
that sounds pretty intense but, it truly is the only thing to get completely rid of the smell...
the stuff you are doing will just mask the smell but not get rid of it...
hope this helps...
Repaint the room and heavily shampoo the carpet or replace it. A no cost solution: let it air out, eventually the smell will go away.
Wash the walls, and especllay the ceiling as the smoke settled there.
Throughly clean all surfaces, including windows, window sills, baseboards and casing around the doors. (Tops of door frames are nasty!)
Place baking soda and coffee crystals in smelly small areas. (The coffee crystals really work.)
Don't use a lot of purfumes.
Get the carpets professionally cleaned, and pay extra for the deorderizer if you need to. It costs less than new carpet.
If you can afford it get an air purifier, not the ionic kind, one with a HEPA filter. Run it all day and night.
Keep your clothes off the floor as they maight pick up odor too.
Open all the windows as much as you can and let fresh air circulate. It can take a while to completely rid the house of it, but it will go away. Good Luck.
Yes I am a smoker and I have cleaned for the military when the families moved out of the housing. - Getting rid of tobacco fumes: For an occasional problem -- odors left after a party, for instance-- are several remedies: a good airing, aided by a fan: aerosol sprays: or a dish of ammonia or vinegar to cover offensive smells with fresher ones. Burning candles at a party may help. Where smoking is constant , consider an air purifier. Small, inexpensive one that circulate air through carbon filters are best used near the smoke source. True air cleaners are more costly; they circulate air and capture smoke, pollen, and dust particles ecstatically. They can be freestanding or mounted on a wall or ceiling and must be adequately sized and properly placed to be effective. If you have a warm air system, you can have an air purifying unit attached to it to clear smoke from the entire house. -- The cleaning company I worked for that cleaned the military housing - When we could smell the smoke in the rooms or the walls looked like some one smoked in them, we had to wipe all the walls down with hot water and vinegar. To clean the ceilings we had to use a sponge mop with the water and vinegar. I would put backing soda out in the room but may have to clean the carpet to get all the smoke smell out of the room. Or you could throw away the rug all together because that rug is holding on to the smoke smells. Good luck.
You can get a carpet cleaning service out to clean the carpets and cleaning the walls and ceilings. If that doesn't work you might have to replace the carpet and paint.
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