cigarettes smell

DH and I are serial house improvers. From bitter experience, the one fault in a house that makes us immediately walk away, is previous occupation by a smoker.

We have twice had to deal with nicotine scented houses. The worst one, we had to have all the carpets and flooring out, refit the kitchen as well as redecorating every year as the brown and the paint came through.

Now we would sooner buy a house that is structurally unsafe than ever buy a smokers house again.

Also, in the future, I would put a post like this in the Home section or Ask a Gran. But no big deal.

Welcome fran! Sorry about your problem. I agree with Gettingitrightoneday that you should simply get a new carper. I know you might not want to, but it might be the only way.

Fran's Ex was probably a smoker ?

Buy an inexpensive new carpet and wash down the walls.

There might be some substances to neutralise the tobacco stink.

Relationship with cigarettes maybe ?

I don't quite get the link with relationships.

Welcome if you are new fran96.

Stale.

When we moved into this house the carpet in the living room smelt like a stake pub. It was a good carpet, but the smell was overpowering. We pulled it up and threw it out in the end, as nothing we did to freshen it worked. We had to buy a new carpet.

Carpets do hold onto smells. I have to get rid of our last car because DH spilt milk in the carpet in the footwell and I didn’t clean it up immediately. Sour milk ??

I really think its impossible to get the smell out of some items.
Most people tolerate it as long as they can, then end up getting rid of items.

Were you a smoker,Fran96 ?