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Cigarette smoke...grrrrrr
I just had a renter move out, and depsit the fact that the lease that says no smoking, they did limit it to one room.
How do I get that smell out. I hate to try to rent it and say no smoking when that room reeks of cigarette smoke.
Help please...
Re: Cigarette smoke...grrrrrr
Nope, they lost the deposit. I just hate that I am left to clean it up. I've been spraying with Lysol, but it is still lingering.
I'll wash the walls, but I don't know about TSP, and we just painted 6 months ago
grrrrrrrr......
Smoke is really hard to wash out, and sometimes it even discolors the walls.
Paint isn't that expensive and it isn't hard to do.
Lysol won't do a darn thing. It's not bacteria causing the odor. It's tar, nicotine, chemicals... whatever.
Good luck with your next tenants!
Thanks everyone.
It looks like that will be on my list for Monday.
Don't know if you've already started working on this, but if the walls aren't discolored. An old trick my grandma used was to put a sponge drenched in ammonia in a little bowl in the room. Apparently the ammonia absorbs the smell and after that you'll have one he!! of a stinky sponge, which you can throw out, but you might not have to do as much painting/cleaning.
Don't know if it works, never tried it myself, but if grandma did it, it can't be wrong, right?
My food blog
What I'm looking forward to in 2012:
Eating our way through (northern) Italy on vacation
<a href="http://www.thenest.com/?utm_source=ticker&utm_medium=HTML&utm_campaign=tickers" title="Home DDo you think that would work on couches? My mother is giving us her old couches, but they reek of cigarettes and we are trying to figure out how to get rid of it before it comes in out house.
I have no idea. I honestly never had to use this trick myself, I just know that's what grandma always did. FH and I both smoke, but not inside the house, which makes it easy to tell others not to smoke there either. Works like a charm, never had to deal with it.
At grandma's house she didn't smoke, but did allow my uncles to smoke (I was a little kid back then) inside, she swore by this system.
My food blog
What I'm looking forward to in 2012:
Eating our way through (northern) Italy on vacation
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