defumigate a room

Ooer. Cook a curry. That’ll kill the smell of smoke. Of course, it will also create a very special aroma of its own, but dem’s da breaks.

Posted over 3 years ago by Floatykatja

a friend mentioned that you can buy a cannister that defumigates. insurance people use it, they leave it running in the house for 12-24 hours and voila – smell free.

i really need to get something. i nearly kicked the bucket last night but luckily i woke up in time, add that to the fact that i normally smoke 30 cigs a day so my lungs didn’t cave in. the smell is way beyond the strongest of curries…

Posted over 3 years ago by j0e

On a serious note, leave the windows open as much as possible. If you have loose covers on your sofa and stuff, chuck them through the washing machine. Wash the walls down and hoover the carpet. Apparently leaving saucers of white vinegar around the place, especially where the smell is strongest, will help as well.

Posted over 3 years ago by Floatykatja

i live in a warehouse and the windows are massive, about 6 foot tall, they cover the whole wall and have been open all day. still no difference. been through 2 cans of neutra air and have 4 air freshner gell things scattered about. still no difference.

i’ll try the vinegar, i read about that somewhere on the net.

i’d really like to find out where i can get one of those cannisters though. i’ve tried googling for them and so far nothing. hopefully somebody here can help me out…

Posted over 3 years ago by j0e

You might want to get the carpet cleaned with one of those carpet shampoo vacuum things, a stinky carpet would take forever to smell nice without it.

Posted over 3 years ago by AppleDave

wooden and tiled floors. no carpets and the (broken) sofa smells ok.

Posted over 3 years ago by j0e

Perhaps try closing all the windows and boil off a pan (or three) of febreeze, thus filling the room with febreeze steam that will permeate into all the nooks and crannies. It should work, but it may not because I just made that idea up.

Posted over 3 years ago by AppleDave

move

Posted over 3 years ago by Spammed

get some pets and let them do their business around the place…......

Posted over 3 years ago by willster

Invite a posse of roving FcLers round, and we’ll fill the place with our own collective aroma.

Posted over 3 years ago by Mamfer

have you thought about going into your local fire station and asking them for advice

although they will tell you off

Posted over 3 years ago by wenttomow

When you nearly caused this inferno by cigarette / stove, were you sitting on the sofa that you recently had to have welded back together?

You remind me of someone I had the misfortune to share a flat with for a few months.

Posted over 3 years ago by Spammed

I would suggest scented candles but I don’t think you can be trusted with any naked flames! The lesson is – “buy a kebab on your way home” and never attempt cooking again (unless it’s toast in a toaster or something in the microwave!)

You could try getting a “Rio Breathe Easy – Ioniser and Aromatherapy Oil Vaporiser” from

http://www.bodykind.com/productdetails/CatIDx57/ProdIDx399/rio-breathe-easy-ioniser-aromatherapy-vaporiser-1x.htm

Says it gets rid of smoke and leaves your room “mountain fresh”.

I’ve heard time is a great healer too. Somone I used to live with once left a sauceman of milk on the stove and fell asleep only to awake to a burnt out non stick pan and a housefull of smoke. Think it took about a week or two get rid of the smell. Made her awful sick too! Daft moo.

fire in the hold

Posted over 3 years ago by Flange1971

sauceman is a good word

sauceman

Posted over 3 years ago by Heftmaid_

Get some haddock from the chippy.

_{/waits for thread about getting rid of a fishy smell}

Posted over 3 years ago by sahra-t

spammed,

cheers. the welding had to be done because of a band i let stay in my flat. very misfortunate indeed.

the cooker was all my fault. naked flames and copious amounts of alcohol definitely don’t mix ;)

thanks everyone for the sound? advice :)

Posted over 3 years ago by j0e

A mate of mine once fumigated his Canadian hotel room with Bear pepper spray. He cried for several hours I think…

...I think the mace made his eyes water too.

groan

Posted over 3 years ago by unknown

p.s. I have duly added sauceman to my status tags.

The Sauceman.

Posted over 3 years ago by unknown

If you would like to borrow our dog for a few days, the place will smell like fetid tramp’s armpit in no time. Result.

Posted over 3 years ago by Mamfer

Mamfer

I guess you’re hoping if j0e had your dog for a few days, it would just smell of smoke. This isn’t a dating site after all; it’s a smell exchange.

Posted over 3 years ago by Spammed