How do you get cigarette smell out of a house? Such as in carpets.?

Answer 1

Walk thru the house with a spray made with water and white vinegar.Then turn on the fan or just air dry.I got all the smell out of my house spraying all the furniture and floors, then just wiped down my walls.Fresh.I had smoked up my house with a pan on the stove----WOW---STINKY.It is all gone, I spray the furniture and mop with it every Saturday...I live alone so it can dry on it's on....

Answer 2

It won't leave the home for many reasons as smoke penetrates the walls, woodwork, drapes, and the insulation. But replacing the pad and carpet helps if you seal the sub flooring first. Use a cleaner on the walls such as soilex and apply two coats of primer before repainting. Have the drapes cleaned professionally and hope for the best as often the smell stays anyway. Replace the insulation in as many accessable areas as possible, and reseal all the woodwork before finishing it.
Be sure to thank the people who owned the place with an appropriate bid on it that includes the labor and money all this requires!
Camel anyone?

Answer 3

You can shampoo them and that will help but it will not get all the smell out. Plus the drapes would hold cig smell and also the smoke covers the walls. To clean the walls you must wash with a good cleanser them first and then use fresh paint.

If you have just bought the house I would actually have the rugs removed and put new carpet in. You can not even believe how filthy rugs are even if they get cleaned. Peoples skin flakes off and the carpets are filled with it as well as dirt also people use the bathrooms at say a movie theater and walk into the house with all those germs. If you think it out carpets are really gross.

Sorry if I just made people lose their appetites now that the look down at the floor.

ADDED: Someone said to use ammonia DO NOT DO THIS! Ammonia fumes can KILL you.

Answer 4

First clean your walls, ceilings and everything with vinegar and water or alcohol. Then get a carpet cleaner and use the normal carpet cleaner in it.......then go back over the carpet with vinegar and water in the steam cleaner to rinse out well. After all of this open all the windows and let it all air and dry out as much as you can. I took out cat BM and pee from the house I rented before moving into it by doing this method. You might have to repeat the cleaning cycle a few times but it will work. If it works for cat odors. it will work for smoke odor.

Answer 5

Get an empty spray bottle and fill it 3/4 full of rubbing alcohol. Add body splash to lessen it's smell. You will be surprised how this cleans the air. I haven't tried it directly on carpet but it could help.

Answer 6

You'll need to have everything professionally cleaned... carpets, drapes, etc.

Also the walls will be infused with smoke. You will have to wash the walls to get rid of as much as you can from the surface. Then you need to paint everything to seal in the rest of the smell.

Answer 7

Have the carpets professionally cleaned. You may have to paint the walls. Don't let anyone smoke in your home. They need to step outside to do the dastardly deed.

Answer 8

Carpet Clean (will take more than once)
Febreeze
Wash the walls and ceilings then repaint
Good luck

Answer 9

Shampoo the carpets with amonia then febreeze

Answer 10

take the carpet out side and say, bad carpet, don't smoke carpet, and you hit it with a hitting stick, repeat if it still smells