How can I get rid of smoke smell?

Question

We've just moved home and two of the rooms have have smokers in them. We've hoovered, carpet shampooed, washed the curtains, and got rid of most of the furniture however they still smell. Any tips?

Answer 1

Alot of scent candles, lavender oil, etc may help?

Answer 2

With people smoking in the rooms, tar and nicotine have built up on the walls. You can use a solution of Spec-n-Span cleaner and water (it tells you how to delute it on the bottle) to clean the walls off. This will help get rid of alot of the left over smell. After the walls dry you can repaint them if you want to. Besure to clean everything, closets, windows, shelves, etc.. Also open the windows and let the room air for a few days.

You might also want to try burning one of the smokers candles or one of the odor candles for a few hours everyday.

It will take a while to get the smell completely out of the room. But, it will go eventually.

Answer 3

Depending on the size of the room, you may need fewer or lesser number of bowls, but take several shallow bowls and fill them with white vinegar.  Let them sit out in the room for a couple of days, then refresh with more vinegar.  This is a good way to absorb odors.  And the vinegar smell will fade quickly once the vinegar is out of the room.  Washing the walls (if you have walls that can be washed, check out what type of paint, ect you have) is probably going to be necessary, especially if you want immediate results.  Also, you said you carpet shampooed, right?  Well, get down on the floor and smell the carpet itself.  If you can still smell odors in the carpet, shampoo again, this time adding about 1/2 cup vinegar to the hot water/carpet soap solution.  Once again, great for removing odors.  A great cover-up tip:  soak a few cotton balls in vanilla essence or peppermint oil, and leave them around the room in places they can't been seen.  Replenish them when the smell wears off.  You could always do this if you need some relief right away.

Answer 4

it may be good to open windows, use scented sprays, air purify machines and eat smelly foods most days to fight it. Adopt a pet to which the smell can not last like a dog or cat.

Answer 5

Pro's Choice Smoke Off

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wipe everything down with the product and clean the carpets with it

You may also want to use FIRE D to bomb the rooms

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Answer 6

cut lemons into slices and hide around rooms lemons perfume the air as well as absorbing odours

good luck

Answer 7

Fabreeze spray

Answer 8

Good advice here.  Only thing I'd add about the walls is that once you clean the walls, you're going to have to have them sealed before repainting or the niccotine is going to bleed right out again in the future.  

It's probably in the carpet padding as well.  Febreeze is only a temporary fix.  To get rid of the smell, the carpet and padding will need to be replaced - and if they were heavy smokers you may need to have the floor sealed before putting down the new padding and carpet.

Answer 9

Try vanilla candles. they are very good for that.

Answer 10

Arm & Hammer baking soda.  It might help.  It may leave a small amount of resadue.  

You may never get rid of it.  That is why you need to keep smokers out.  It is no big deal just ask them to smoke outside and then not come back in for a while as it gets on their clothes.

Tell the smokers that it the baking soda may also help them clean their teeth.  Back in the days before there was tooth paste and after the ''other stuff they used'' they used baking soda to clean teeth.  It does work pretty good but it is ruff on the teeth.