Getting Rid of the Smell of Cigarette Smoke

6/28/2022 (Permalink)

SERVPRO of White Plains gets a lot of calls for many different types of odors to be removed. We recently had a homeowner contact us. He bought a small house that had been lived in for 30 years by 2 heavy smokers. He said he thought if he opened the windows and got the carpet cleaned and got rid of the curtains and blinds that were left behind, the smell would go away. He soon discovered he was wrong!  

Our estimator went over to take a look. It’s a good thing masks are still in style, because this house smelled from the driveway. The previous owners had smoked in the house and the smell had permeated everything.  

We gave the new owner our estimate and he liked the price and scheduled the work to begin. 

We sent our team out to get started. We had to clean every imaginable surface. Walls, ceilings, floors, doors, closets – the ceilings, walls and floors, cabinets, windows, screens. Every surface in the house got cleaned. The brown nicotine was running down the walls but was not match for SERVPRO of White Plains and our products. We scrubbed and wiped and mopped and wiped some more. Soon the walls, floors, and ceilings were cleaned and ready to be painted. While we were cleaning all of the surfaces, we had air scrubbers running. We ripped up carpets and padding and threw them into the dumpster.  

After all the cleaning was completed, we set up an Ozone Machine let it run for a day and came back the next day. Mission accomplished! The new owner came in and was so surprised. He could not believe the smell was gone. He was so impressed that he called his real estate agent to tell them. They said they should have called us first and then sold the house at for more money. They came over and were in shock the way the house smelled. We now have a happy customer and a real estate company that now has a company to call on to clean a house like this and make more money on the sale.