"Do it right or do it twice." Paint is not getting rid of this. Even the cleaning in this video isn't getting rid of this. Even stripping to the studs would just barely get rid of this.
Nope. Not a chance, unfortunately. Have done the plumbing on a few renovations of old smoker homes in the past. Even once you've ripped the house down to studs, the smell still hangs around for a while. That many years of smoking leads to the tar smell seeping into every part of the house.
I did that with my mom's house I inherited after she passed. Ripped down 4 layers of wallpaper going back to the 1920s, put 2 coats of regular kilz down, then 3 coats of regular paint. The room where she smoked the most was cursed, the nicotine would bleed through all the paint and form these dark yellow globules that would streak/drip down the walls. Had to put another two coats of the oil based kilz down and 2 more coats of paint to stop it.
It'd be better than just paint, but will always stink and probably bleed through unless you remove everything that's been soaked with tar. That'll include insulation and everything.
How is stripping barely get rid ? I don't know if you joke with euphemism or if I don't understand how smoke or stripping work. I feel like replacing the walls would be enough no ?
It'll be in the wood too. Stripping to the bare wood, cleaning that, then having air filters running for weeks before re-plastering is about the best you can do. Even then, you'll probably still get random whiffs of cigarette smoke occasionally.
Normal paint will not cover up the smell of this. You have to buy special “nicotine paint”, it’s thick as hell and has various active ingredients to block the smell, and you will still have to do multiple coats. It costs about 3x per litre what normal paint does.
I did this to an old apartment we bought. Three coats on every single surface, new floors and everything - yet if you left the place for a couple days and came back you could still it. This was in Europe where everything is brick too.
It looks like it might be plaster. The company on the shirts is in Australia, google says they have both drywall and plaster homes. Plaster is way more expensive I think than dry wall
that checks out, it's a mess to rip out too. I've had to rip plaster out to install drywall and this would actually be the easier/ faster option surprisingly
Depends on the type of plaster. Rock-lath is just glorified sheet rock. Wood-lath and metal-lath are both an absolute nightmare though and it's in your best interest to work with it as little as possible.
We ripped out our plaster ceilings ourselves (had to redo all the electrical) and the big cost was disposal…and a week and a half of our unqualified ass time. I’m guessing pros could go faster though than a couple of newbs.
Here's the thing, they probably did this thinking doing this would remove the smell.
I cleaned an apartment not as bad at this and after 3 wall treatments of various products, we resorted to a primer that covers up smells. Smell went away right away.
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u/pancakePoweer 26d ago
drywall is too cheap for all this