Previous owners of my house had a bunch of these things. It's some new-age "aromatherapy" garbage. The whole house smells like this shit even after several days of ventilation.
After years of spraying "oils" into the air, it probably settles on and coats all the surfaces, right? Do I need to wash the walls? Steam clean the carpets?
Maybe I should remove all walls, floors, and ceilings and replace them.
Start smoking cigarettes
I don't want to smoke Black personettes.
Ozone will do it.
do the same but choose oils of your liking?
not OP but I have chain smoking neighbors and it's an old house where I am living, so sometimes I can smell their disgusting way of living. To combat it I regularly pour very strong smelling oils into the hollow walls like some weird ass christmas oils that smell like a pastry. They hate it but I love it. Frick smoker
>Do I need to wash the walls? Steam clean the carpets?
why wouldn't you do that anyway after moving into a house that someone else lived in?
fricking this, did op bought a house and didn't bother to clean it?
>why wouldn’t you do that anyway…
Scumlord took a deposit and never cleaned between tenants and I have never lived a messier year of my life. The place was already a shithole, top on what must’ve been a decade of grime, plus my year of grime on top of that.
I spent an hour cleaning one tile in the kitchen and it literally went from dingy gray to bright white. Who the frick lives so dirty.
I dealt with it because I wasn’t going to put in any effort into that shithole, but the prior tenants must’ve lived in that grime for ages. Frick me.
I made this mistake too. On first inspection it didn't seem that bad. They had cleaned superficially and hidden things well but I quickly learned that there was rot behind every cabinet and fixing, under every carpet, and behind every wallpaper.
I worry that I did long term health damage even after trying to clean. I've never cleaned so hard in my life but the place was never truly fit for habitation it was endless whack a mole.
If the tiles were so grimy why did you ever even move in?
probably thought they were grey, cleaned up a mess they'd made and left a clean spot
then had the stunning realisation as to just how goddamn filthy the place is
It's in the duct system and it will cost tens of thousands to replace.
You will eventually adjust to it and not notice anymore.
>oils
They are. And like all oils, they can be removed simply by soap and water.
Hire SERVPRO to soap-and-water everything. If they look at you funny, say "do what you would to for an oil burner puff-back" i.e. soot removal.
They'll send a team to wipre down everything.
It'll cost money, because they're used to billing insurance.
But if cash is involved, arrangements can be made.
Do it before you unpack because its 1000% easier without furniture involved.
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basado
Was the walls, clean the carpets if you have any, and pay $500 to have them vac out and clean the ducting. You should have done that shit anyway.
Bee mop, and a diluted solution of TSP.
Americans call these bee mops? That's funny.
I'm American and have lived all over the US and have never heard the term before this thread; it's just a sponge mop...
evidently it's a yuro design marketed under that trade name in Canada-
>The mop, designed in Italy, was introduced in Canada in 1976 and became a classic in this country, says Pierre Lacroix, North American marketing director for Freudenberg Household Products, which sells the Vileda brand. The Bee was first distributed here by Atlantic Promotions Inc., a Quebec-based company with an eye for nifty kitchen gadgets.
I guess technically Canada is "American" geographically, but it's like how lemurs are technically primates but bear little resemblance to humans, who are also primates.
>I guess technically Canada is "American" geographically, but it's like how lemurs are technically primates but bear little resemblance to humans, who are also primates.
reject anglais
return to le monke
>oi it's called a Wishy Squishy Sponge Spiffy
it's just smellz
My mom's house was like this. Ended up repainting the walls. Smell still took about three months to dissipate. Just be content that fragrance oils aren't the worst thing you could be smelling.
When I lived with pothead roommates I found that wiping stuff down with isopropyl alcohol really helped get rid of stubborn residues
Yea they fricking stink, we tried them for a bit and threw it all into the garbage. Our friend gave us a huge amount of them because they also hated them.
feels like you're choking on the air, no idea how people like these things
>BRAAAAP
hijacking this thread to ask the complete opposite question
what's the best way to scent your home?
I see that oils are not ideal, and I never found any that smell good anyway, but what about candles, spray air fresheners, catalytic lamps, mikados, flower bouquets, etc?
not looking any specific smell, just clean smelling (need to air, I know) and something cozy and warm, I want it to smell like home
>I want it to smell like home
find a girl who likes to bake and cook.
Cooking regularly, especially hearty stews, roasts & soups, baking bread, a wood fireplace, the room note of a pleasant pipe tobacco. The only way to make a home smell cozy and lived-in is to actually live in it cozily.
oils are actually the best way just use reed diffusers or mikado as you called them not vapour ones since they release too much
>candles
literally combusion products and usually too strong
>spray
all those kind of sprays have horrible toxic chemicals in never use can spray for regular home use
>flowers
maybe they're better but that's a job unto itself
not all essential oils are made equal nor are they equal concentration find the ones you want your home to smell of and use those it can be as mild or as powerful as you want
>not looking any specific smell, just clean smelling
fresh air is really the answer though if your home is clean and aired it will smell like this anyway but you could use almond oil with maybe a hint of lemongrass, lavender, or something
scented candles are only the same thing in a different form it all boils down to what fragrant compounds (essential oils) you're putting in the air and how much
This is going to sound crazy, but clean it with soap and water? Don't have a bunch of furbearing animals shitting and pissing all over the place? Don't let food rot in your sink? Wash your ass?
I have a shitload of scented candles and essential oils stored in my living room. If you leave the cabinet door open it will make the room smell very pleasant. Alternatively I can very well suggest getting into diy soaps, as you have to leave them in a warm place for long term curing they will give off the oils you used in the soap. And there's some fricking sweet oils like ylang-ylang oil. Also very good are incense candles like bergamot ones
I use the wax warmers. Pretty cozy
Put everclear in aromatherapy misters.
They make deoderizer spray that actually works. Had a garage that reeked of cigarettes from years of smoking in there. After 4 or 5 spray downs, it smelled totally normal. I forget the name of the product it was like nozone or something. Good luck.
Wgw44m
Ozone generators get rid of all smells. Ozone is reactive and likes to burn organic molecules, it will also attack plastics and wood. You only want a bit to attack the surface layer and dont be in the room when you gas it.
fry onions
drop an ozone generator in that sucker
dawn dish soap, warm water in a bucket, a rag. go to town.
seriously, you killed the thread about anal beds for this
That shit is like curry. It permanently bonds to anything it touches.
fire is the only way.
Put a collection of Teflon coated pans on the stove with burners set to high. Go to the bar and drink a 6 pack. Come home, turn off stove, sleep on the porch.
Any smell that was will not survive the smell that will be.
maybe try an ozone bomb. You close all the windows and doors, then you get your cans of compressed ozone and pop em open then hold your breath and run. Let it sit for a few days or hours or whatever the can says. The ozone is so reactive that it reacts with the smells and turns them into things that are not smells. But be careful with it, because it also will react with your DNA and make it not your DNA anymore.
>But be careful with it, because it also will react with your DNA and make it not your DNA anymore.
that's the least of your concerns if you follow the instructions properly
it can frick up plastic and cloth as well and make everything brittle and bleached
It's afraid.
I have a defuser and the smell doesn't linger at all for me, I wish it did, but I don't understand how the house would still smell like that, the stuff just evaporates. Are you sure that is the source of the smell?
I found out that under the fridge was a strong source of the smell. I vacuumed the dust off the condenser coils and the fan vents. The exhaust still smells like fragrance chemicals but hopefully it might improve with the dust gone.
I don't know why the bottom of the fridge would collect it, other than the fact that dust gathers there and traps particles. Maybe the oil is heavier than air and they had a diffuser next to the fridge.
The fridge hardware remains a major source of it and I can't figure out why. I hoped that with the masses of dust gone it would dissipate.
Had this exact problem when I moved into my new place. It fixed itself after about 6 months over the summer (windows open). If you can wait it'll clear out eventaully.
This will nuke everything, but you will need a place to stay for 1-2 days.
Does it deteriorate copper wires and vinyl?
>1-2 days
no
more like 1-2 hours
run it for a couple hours and then turn it off and open a window
Cook bacon
OP is a demon trying to remove the positive energy, next he will ask how to dump out bowls of salt without getting near them
>Steam clean the carpets?
You kept the previous owner's carpets? Sounds like you're renting, not owning.
Is this a meme? I've never heard of it being standard practice to replace carpets when buying a house, assuming they're not super old or fricked up.
Other humans are repulsive. You have no idea what's happened to their carpets or what bug larvae are going to hatch in a few months.
I'm replacing the carpets with hardwood at some point but I couldn't do it immediately.
Chances are they have most of the smell. You could try renting a commercial carpet cleaner.