How do I best remove smoke from my kitchen walls?

Question

I recently had a grease fire, and am now trying to clean up after it. I've got stuff sticking to my stove top, and smoke sticking to my walls and ceiling. Soap and water gets up most of it, what else should I use?

Answer 1

I have had 2 fires over the years, and the first thing you want to do is wipe down the walls to remove most of the dirt and suit. From there, go to home Depot and get a product called Killz Primer and paint all the walls.

The killz will mix with the smoke and suit and lock everything in so it doesn't bleed through when you put on your final coat of paint.

As far as cleaning the walls, TSP works great along with Simple Green.

Now although I do not recommend it, when I had a fire at my office back in 1992 I washed most of the walls down, but in some areas such as the tile ceiling, I just took a spary gun and went right over everything with 1 coat of white oil based paint without even washing anything down. Turned out just fine and none of the smoke blead through :)

Answer 2

Unfortunately the firemen use chemicals in the water to put out a fire and smoke and stuff sticks to everything...Call a disaster relief place and ask for their recommendations or Red Cross...For the walls I would use Kiltz or Binz as an undercoat then paint. Good luck

Answer 3

the difficulty with smoke is the dimensions of the debris. they're very small and characteristic a tendency to get interior the pores of the paint. on condition which you have a extreme gloss the teeth is there a huge gamble you're able to do away with the smoke stain. of direction if the exterior has extremely of grease action picture(and what floor in a kitchen would not that on occasion) then maximum any better half and young little ones cleanser will do.

Answer 4

a good de-greaser will remove the grease, but the smoke requires some extra-hard work as well as a good airing out, and re-painting after a good scrubbing with a top quality cleaning agent. i would recommend **** n span, but not the liquid. the powder would be better but is hard to locate. check with a hardware store for their recommendation.

Answer 5

Prime the walls with a stain stopping primer then repaint it.
you could try washing with T.S.P. but I dont know how extensive the damage is and it might not get the walls clean enough.

Answer 6

Windex works to cut the grease

Answer 7

Remember that from a smoky fire there is creosote.

"Mr Clean" does the best in this situ

Answer 8

you might have to Prime and Paint your kitchen. You should use Killz oilbase primer, its the best for stains.

Answer 9

Have your tried TSP?
You can get it at Home Depot or any hardware store.
Check with the fire dept. to see what they recommend.
Good luck!

Answer 10

Vinegar solution.