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buying a home that belonged to smokers
DH and I are buying a home that currently has smokers. There are no stains on the walls and mostly hardwood floor. My plan was to pull up the rugs (hallway landing and finished basement), have all the hardwood floors refinished and wash all of the walls before we paint. Do you think I need to wash the ceiling too, or will paint be enough. Anything I missed? Do you know if there are cleaning companies that specialize in this kind of thing?
Re: buying a home that belonged to smokers
Before putting our rental on the market (& pre paint), we sprayed the walls and ceiling with this product. Worked great and when it started showing there was no evidence that the prior tenant had smoked in the home. Highly recommended!
http://www.vamooseproducts.com/
It would be a good thing to wash everything, walls and ceiling included. When my grandparents moved (smokers), they had to repaint everything because it was so discolored (and probably smelled too). None of us realized how discolored the walls and ceiling were until we went to paint it. Even when they took a photo off the wall that must've been up for forever....there was a square patch of white on the wall where the picture had been hanging, and the rest of the wall was a dingy tannish brown color compared to it.
I have no idea about cleaning companies that'd do it for you...could you look up home cleaning services and ask around? How much of a pain would be to wash everything first? I don't recall my family washing everything before painting over it, but you're supposed to wash walls before you paint them anyway (we're about to paint our walls). Their ceiling was a popcorn-like texture, so I seriously doubt they took a sponge to it--it was probably enough of a pain just to paint it.
Good luck!
Use the Vamoose on the walls/ceiling/woodwork before painting. Sometimes the dinginess can bleed through paint, and you want the smell gone, not just covered up.
Also, a good duct cleaning and sealing would help; that smoke is in the ducts, furnace, etc.
Good idea about the duct cleaning. I didn't even think of that.
I would call a service. Servpro is national, and they specialize in stuff like that, or you could Google smoke cleanup. I did the same thing after my ex's grandmother passed away--there was a layer of tar over EVERYTHING. The landlord did call a service, and told us that he did so every time a smoker moved out. It was the only way to get the place livable again.
SO glad Hubby quit smoking :-)
One of our estate properties was so bad we had to powerwash inside and the tar dripped down the walls.
I would suggest using Kilz primer before you paint to keep anything from leeching through.