How To Get Rid Of The Smoke Smell?
We just bought a new house and my in laws both smoke. They have been staying with us for a few days and they don’t smoke in our house but they smoke outside and come in and they still smell like smoke. How do you get rid of the smoke smell? Of course I will wash the bedding where they slept but im sure the guest bedroom still will smell like smoke. Any helpful ideas?
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Crank it on full blast after every pet and human is out of the house. If it has a timer have it turn off 2 hours before your return. Then air the place out a little to get rid of the last bit. You should clean everything the best you can before the ozone. Think of the smoke smell as a big turd. If you gas the turd it won’t smell….. until someone steps in it.
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1. The first step to getting rid of the smoke smell is to get rid of the smokers. Inform them they are devaluating your property and costing you thousands of dollars as well as damaging your health not just their own. Tell them to quit or leave.
You have many good suggestions already posted on how to get the smell gone once the source of it all is gone. Here are a few that were not covered:
1. OZONE! O3 is nasty stuff, but it does the job well. There are several manufacturer’s of ozone producing machines. They like to call them air sanitizers. They of often severly overpriced, but you can sometimes pretend you are interested in one and borrow it for a weekend from a salesman.
Almost forgot. Have all your fans(example – A/C or Heater) running. That stuff is all over in your vents.
2. Glycerol based deodorizers. There is a particular one that I have found to work. It is called Ozium. You can find this in some autoparts stores in a small, actually tiny, aerosol can.
With it only being ‘a few days’ – I think, after the smoke producing machine was stopped, that an ozone producing machine would get the job done with the least amount of work.
An open container of coffee grounds works well to remove odors…just leave it in the room for a day or so. Follow up with a good scrubbing of the walls, windows, etc and wash all linens. Finish with Febreeze or Lysol Neutra Air in the blue lidded can. Worked like a charm when I moved into an apt previously occupied by a smoker! Good luck!
Try Febreeze in the purple bottle i live in a apartment and our neighbors belows and the neighbors next to them both smoke so every time we have our widows open we have to spray that stuff but it works it gets rid of the smell really good