How To Clean Years Of Smoker Residue From Walls
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- Опубліковано 30 лис 2022
- Smoke and cigarette residue can be a mess to clean up. In this video, I share the tried and true method my family and I have used in our cleaning business for 40+ years. I will say it is one of the most satisfying cleans you can do!
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00:07 Supplies Needed
00:25 Work In Sections
00:50 Cleaning Process
01:41 Rinsing The Wall
02:22 Before & After
02:36 Final Touch Up
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My mother used to call it wood work. We washed the walls every year and she’d always say “get your hands off my wall.” Lmao til this day (I’m 51) I still wash my walls. Can’t tell if I have smoker walls so I looked it up, but I don’t know if I have this problem. I smoke marijuana. Regularly wash walls, clothes, and carpet. Doesn’t smell like smoke in my place but I still worry. One thing I use for any tough spots is a Mr. Clean eraser. Super good for dark marks on walls, appliances and sneakers. Even cleaned the paint from another car in an accident off my car. Works wonders, not expensive…try it out!😊
Whoa! I am a Big time smoker and living in a cold climate tend to smoke indoors with windows wide open. Spring cleaning time, now the sun is out.This actually works, no need for American cleaning detergents! Thank you so much! I added a little vinegar for getting rid of the smell. I am sitting here stunned at my white walls!
Don't you own a jacket? Smoke outside!! No good enough excuse.
@@biscuitsback8396 Happily, I can do as I please. Thank you for sharing.
Can see you dabbing…. you sure need the exercise!
Sorry…
AMAZED.....It actually worked!! Very time saving too and I can do a much larger area. I love those mops and have several on hand due to laminate flooring.
Being a smoker and my late husband was also the only solution I knew was Awesome spray from Dollar Tree. That was spray, wipe, spray wipe over the walls and exhausting!! A huge thank you for showing something that actually worked and affordable.
I'm glad it worked!!
Cool video good info
I wish I had seen this 25 years ago when I cleaned up my parents place with 409 and paper towels. Not very bright back then I guess. I am now subscribed. Carpets need some work and I have already checked out that video. Thanks.
Such a great informative video. Does this help with candle soot on ceilings?
Maybe good right before painting, but wouldnt it just bleed back through if the place has been smoked in for a long time?
Glad to see Dawn does so well. Definitely will be trying this on the walls of the house my daughter and her fiancé just bought when they move in.
Is there anything Dawn can’t clean? 🐥
DOES NOT LOOK LIKE A SMOKING WALL
Yes I do not see the tar and nicotine stains before either
I smoked weed and this is how my walls look now
Doesn't work for fuck lol
Yes, you are right, mine is yellow-orange-brown...
It can look grey, it often goes yellow when you wet it.
Will this work on flat paint?
what about the wall paper then? i think its not working in same way?
You should try an OCedar spin mop.. (life changer)
Will do! How often should you change the mop head?
@@vlrissolo The mop heads are washable. I really don't know. I have one mop head for my floors and one mop head for my walls. Or when I get new mop head, I use it on the walls first before using it for the floors.
I put the cleaner in my bucket to wipe down. Then use clean water to rinse the walls.
DID THEY ONLY SMOKE IN THERE A WEEK?
Can you also add some vinegar?
Yeah you want to use vinegar after you're done cleaning with soap
But like somebody else said this is really not smoke damage, it might have been like maybe a week or month of smoking but the windows open
Is there a specific reason why it's gotta be Dawn? Asking, cause it's not obtainable in my country lol
Was expecting you to use something heavy duty like TSP.
I agree. My brother smoked in his room for 40 years. We scrubbed it 3 times with a TSP solution, painted 3 coats of primer, then 2 coats of paint. The room he's demonstrating was smoked in short term...maybe two years.
@@joanneb3524Did that work?
We are cleaning and remodeling rental property. Guy Was a smoker and wood burner used for heat. Also oak hardwood floors have pet damage. My husband just wants to cut out the bad parts, patch and the cover with vinyl plank flooring with a vapor seal. House stinks we need help. Dawn is wonderful I make my own Dawn Powerwash. These walls are drywall and we also need to remove a border in the living room
Fabric softener and water works on removing wall paper.
Fabric softener and water works on removing wall paper.
Use zinzer made for odor, It works like a charm. A couple of coats or more. where the pet stains are on the floor.
How did everything turn out for you? I use a corn stove and everything is coated black so if you got any tips I'd reallllly appreciate
An easier way... spray nine the walls, rinse thoroughly...even clean instantly air cleaners...the way I do it is, take air cleaner outside, spray it with spray nine inside and out, rise thoroughly inside and out, (I use the garden hose)leave in the hot sun for the day, 2 to be sure, once ur surer its dry, it will look like new...u can even clean the filter than way. Works for me.
What is "spray nine"?
@@tinamajor9522Degreaser
@@tinamajor9522 - It's an awesome degreaser. I swear by that stuff google "Spray Nine"
Anyone have tips on cleaning tar off popcorn walls/ceilings?
I think you just have to kind of paint over it right
Ammonia mixed with vinegar; this will also take away smoke smell in house
make sure you wear a gas mask.
My dad heavy smoker...it took me 3 x to get thru the smoke...and it took more ghan dawn!
Nice! You should do one on how to clean a Hoof Trimmers truck after years of manure being tracked into it!🤣🤣💩🛻
Lol, sounds like a 💩 situation!
I'm sure I could find a way. Unfortunately I'm not in Wisconsin. Best wishes to you. ❤
I agree dying in a smoker's Wall where's that piss yellow
Landlords pay good money for that nicotine beige in the thumbnail. They love to paint it on every wall in every rental unit ever. I bet hell has a special landlord wing. 🤔
Not good enough...... SUGAR SOAP is the stuff of legends....
Can you explain that to me? I'm having a hard time cleaning the walls of my cigar smoking room. Even dish soap and water won't cut it unless I scrub tf outta it. It leaves black streak. Even when I think it looks good, I go and dry the wall with a piece of paper towel and low and behold, it comes out looking yellowish/blackish.
@@thegreatdisillusionist - Not sure what country you live in but SUGAR SOAP CONCENTRATE has been around for years and years,,,,, Just mix it with water and mop away like the bloke in the video......
@@Theteesebruh, you about a year too late
How about the ceiling..
Spray and use the mop to absorb the solution, works like a charm for me
Dawn alone will not do this.
What will? I have pets so I have to be careful of that too
That is not what I meant to Say what I meant to say was Where's where's the yellow walls of smoke build up
There's no way no how is some Dawn going to properly cut through the tar, nicotine and grease that make up a layer of smoky grime on the walls. Basically the only thing this video teaches is that you can clean stuff using copious amount of elbow grease with any old detergent - work harder, not smarter? If you really want to dissolve the greasy muck you need TSP, which is a degreaser.
Or Spray Nine. IMHO it works better than tsp.
What Is Dawn ?
Liquid Dish soap
What is in the spray bottle? 🤔
dish soap (he used Dawn, but any dish soap works) and warm water. 0:13
HUH ? I do not see Nicotine and Tar stains are you kidding me ?
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I've painted enough nicotine covered walls from years of smoking. Has no one heard of primer? This is what it's for, prime the walls 2/3 times with some good primer and then paint your color 2 coats. No need for all this. Kinda gross to me, getting the walls all wet, it soaks in ya know....they aren't made of plastic.
He’s not soaking the walls. It’s cheaper than painting.
Wiping the walls is too gross for you, but sealing filth inside them forever is okay?
A paint with sheen won't absorb water easily by the way. Though if you have flat paint, yeah, it can cause problems.
Also,coming from someone who worked in hotels. The paint can't always cover all the odors. Cleaning then painting ensures the odors will be eliminated.
This video is to help ppl who can't repaint.
It doesn’t look like a smoking wall n you did not say what cleaner was used
He said dawn
What about walls that are water based?
This makes me sad to imagine this residue in people's bodies, and to imagine the issues that come with just living in a house like this. Thank you for helping people improve their homes like this, I'm sure just seeing the difference can help change how someone sees their life, improve their mindset about quitting/having quit smoking.
It's much, much worse inside people's lungs. In medical school we saw dissections of healthy lungs versus smoker lungs, and the smoker's lungs are just pure black. If you think about it, the tar and nicotine deposits on the wall are just what's landing on there from the air that's sitting in the room, whereas the lungs are actively filtering this polluted air. It's terrible. I'll never for the life of me understand how fellow medics go on to smoke when they've seen what cigarettes do to our bodies.
The doctors said my father's step mother's lungs were like that. I don't know if that explains her black heart though 😕
@@UVIcki ❤️