We bought a cute cottage at the beach, but the walls, everything stinks of smoke. I am in the process of cleaning all the walls. I use Clorox cleaner with bleach. This is a picture of how dirty the walls are. The house was built in 1952 so we have a lot of cleaning to do.
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I find that TSP or TrisodiumPhosphate is great for this and the powdered form is not expensive at all.
Mix it with water, and you can sponge it on with cheap mops, protecting the flooring if you need to.
Buy curtain magic just need spray & within 2 mins the product self cleans
Lowes sells a product called Greased Lightening. You spray it on and just keep wiping with paper towels. Buy a big bundle of cheap ones.
This worked for me. I couldn't get the TSP but I was able to use a similar TSP product at Home Depot. A pound box was 3.96. I've been using a mop and old towels to wipe it clean. So far, so good!
Spray-9...heavy duty cleaner & degreaser, it can be bought at Menards or homedepot. Nic & tar just runs off the walls & it disenfects. I've did no scrubbing, just wipe clean. I heard whispered by painters & contractors ( there little secret ). I tried it & Lo & behold ! It worked ! Easiest nic & tar removal I've used since 1988. There used to be a specialty product called Nic & Tar off, made by Eco-lab.
Try Awesome cleaner, found at most Dollar stores. Spray and watch it melt. Open windows please, but it's pretty miraculous
I am going to try Awesome on my walls that have old nicotine stains on them. I hope it works. Let me know if you think this will work? Thanks
That actually looks like "ordinary" smoke and dirt as opposed to nicotine. If the house has now or, at some time in the past had either a woodburner or coal furnace, that is likely what this is.
Yes it works...we thought our living room walls were painted brown when we moved in our house, turns out it was cigarette smoke. Awesome is the way to go
The best to clean Nicotine is alcohol, (Rubbing type) but you might try an oil soap for wood paneling. If you use alcohol just dampen a towel or rag, a lot of rags.
Nicotine comes off yellow brown not black, your walls are just dusty, dirty.
I have found that a mixture of half ammonia and half water takes off cigarette smoke. You might also want to add couple of squirts detergent to your gallon container. It also takes the kitchen grease off my cupboard doors very well.
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