Removing Pet and Smoke Odors?

Question

Im thinking about buying a house, the house is in great condition in and out and is at a great price, the only issue is that majority of the house has a combination of both Pet and smoke. Are there ways to permantly remove these smells if removing the existing carpet and repainting does not work?

Answer 1

Get it fumigated with a company

Answer 2

For the walls, if there is wall paper - remove it and treat walls with "Zinzer Bin". It can be found at any hardware store. Great product for covering walls etc.  We used to remove old water marks from walls and it worked beautifully.

The rugs...take them up because if there is old urine and you don't know where ... it will be impossible to find. I would take up the rugs and refinish the floors...Good luck

Answer 3

first,  you can not cover pet odor with latel or water base paint.  To remove pet pee odor, you must either remove the floorboards, which can be expensive, or, you can use oil based marine paint and that will sel out all odors from coming through.  To get rid of smoke smell off walls, the fire department uses a lemon smell based paint.  it works well.  For fabric, use febreze and ventilation and it will greatly reduce any odor of smoke. It works on compressed wood too.You can wash cabinets and wood type shelves with a mix of lemon juice and vinegar.

Answer 4

A good airing out may help, but you should scrub tteh walls with tri-sodium phosphate to prevent leak-thru staining (adding a few drops of vanilla to the paint might help).  The carpets should be professionally cleaned and treated as if they were soaked with water (consult a business that does fire restoration cleaning.  They should have a treatment process that would work well for the odor removal).

Answer 5

First you need to wash the walls with a product called TSP, it works great, and you can add some Mr Clean to it in the same bucket, use one 5 gal bucket to wash and have one 10 mins. behind with rinse water, use small bath towels they work great. now you can paint the wall(when dry) and for the floor, pull up the old carpet, sweep and vac few times, and mop with your TSP Mr Clean water, Rinse well and let dry, If it is wood floor, the use a primer/sealer oil base and roll it on the floor before you carpet or tile or floating wood floor it. It takes work and I love cats and dogs but people don't have to know you have them all the time.