Using the mop was genius. I own a cleaning co. Partners N Grime out in Houston and have watched videos & read home remedies like no other. Not only did you get creative but it worked & worked bad assly!
I'm helping my parents renovate my grandmother's mobile home she smoked in for 20 years and I've been concerned about how to remove the residue. This was massively helpful, thank you so much for posting this!
Awesome video. I used Mr. Clean and a rounded sponge mop. Did it twice because of the streaks. I smoked for the first 8 years I lived in my current apartment. But then I quit. Soon after that I noticed the walls when I took a couple picture. The flash photography shows EVERYTHING.
This is flipping amazing! Granted.. This was the worst ive seen in 30 years of property management! This video shows me if your method can clean this mess so easily... It can clean any level of cigarette damage. Thank you for sharing! Very helpful!
Holy shit!! Let me run to Walmart and grab these products!! I'm doing house cleaning right now!!! And I said let me run to you too to see who has an idea on how to get this residue off of these walls and I swear this is the best one I've seen yet!!!
Thank you so much for posting this! We worked a whole day before seeing this with little result. This works great! I really appreciate that you took the time to post this. It was so helpful!
@@deanlawthers6234 Your walls are serious, man. Me is also hit but... ... from smokers downstairs and in the neighborhood and have to clean like every other day or every three days, and need at least TWO air purifiers. So bloody f-ed... ... Go go go!
Very good to know! I'm currently in the process of cleaning my walls. I am a smoker and not supposed to smoke indoors, but.....I do sneak a few - or more inside - especially when it's -20 below or colder. 🚬🚬🤫🤭 I don't expect anyone to clean my walls, windows, appliances or carpeting. I own my own carpet cleaner. I am creating the mess and odor and usually I clean it everything from top to bottom once a year, but I have been having some serious medical issues and haven't cleaned my apartment in over a year. It's now smelling and looking so much better! The only thing I'm having a problem with is the popcorn ceiling. Not sure how to approach that....unless I should just paint it myself. I've never cleaned it. But TBH, it's not that bad. My windows are always open and I have 6 fans that constantly running at all times, summer and winter. What I also find works very well is oxygen...like OxyClean with a household cleaner. Personally, I find Pine-Sol and Oxygen has worked the best so far. BUT I am going to pretreat the walls with Scrubbing Bubbles before the wipe down with the Pine-Sol and oxygen. For really tough stains, I highly recommend Greased Lightning. It's a must try. I appreciate the tip!
I feel stupid for not thinking of this! I remember it says not to use on painted surfaces so naturally it’s going to cut through this stuff! You just saved me a whole lot of time ❤️
Got an inherited heavy smoker recently been evicted out. Tried alcohol and dish soap to clean the cigarette stain, little effect. I will try your method to see how it works.
You will never get it back to fresh paint. All the cleaning does is removes all the crap thats on the walls before you repaint to stop the stains coming back through
Moving into our fixer upper forever home, previous owner has smoked inside for 20 years (but not a carton a week lol) so thank you for this video! I've been looking up best ways to get the stained walls clean so I can clean them and then paint
FYI the average cigarette sized marijuana joint has as much TAR as a regular pack or real cigarettes. So if you smoke a joint daily your lungs will suffer the same TAR damage as a pack per day cigarette smoker. But sure be blind after all it's your lungs not mine.
There are lots of things that work. TSP tri sodium phosphate, Vinegar, Baking soda, Ozone Machine, painting. Generally in the renovation business, one wants to hit a difficult problem multiple ways. I look forward to seeing how scrubbing bubbles work, I have used Vinegar and and TSP. TSP (Tri Sodium Phosphate) is a very popular cleaner, and cheaper. One has to be careful, if you paint over too much, the smoke can come through the wall paint. Both immediately and over time. In some cases in may be ok, if it comes through a little (is it even, consistent, or splotchy?) and (How long do you want it to look good and what color are you painting?) Ozone Machines are great for removing the smell, but use properly and be patient and take time. To tackle tough problems like this generally one needs to hit it multiple times. Clean everything quickly, the clean the walls good, then paint, then clean completely, ozone multiple times, drop a bunch (20) of boxes of baking soda one in every room and cabinet (baking soda can absorb some of the remaining odors) and add some air fresheners to cover some of the remaining smell. One needs to be rational are realistic in the approach. TSP and Ozone machine are the two biggest tools. Other things like placing baking soda and air fresheners are measured in their effectiveness. Baking soda is cheap, has absorbing abilities, and can probably only remove 10% of the smell, but for the $20 it costs, it well worth it. No matter what, you can never totally remove 100%, but getting a pleasant covering smell over that last 1% is totally worth it. Don't over due it on air fresheners. Kilz2 primers are also good. Hope these tips help someone.
TSP works. Cheap. Buy it at Home Depot. Windex works good. Scrubbing Bubbles-works good but I can't breath it. Maybe the unscented is better. Or a mask. I'm doing a condo. Learning all kiinds of new stuff.
@@donnagrandevaleur4215 I mostly used TSP. Then I used a couple gallons of Windex. That seemed to work a little better than Bubbles. So not that much of that.
Wow! Im happy to find your video! Very useful. Would you recommend this for floorboards/trim? The trim is not varnished, if that’s any help. Thanks a lot! 🙏
I live in a 200 year old house that had smokers living here up until like 5 years ago, I’ve been scared to start cleaning because I feared the cost. Now I’m thinking I can do the cleaning part mostly myself and just hire painters if needed!
Side note . Theoreticaly you could just paint the walls with two coats of a good oder eating primer. That's what a couple of so called expert painters on TH-cam suggest. They said they don't bother cleaning anymore. Because you never get it all off. But cleaning is fine. But you would still have to paint with good paint. That's what I did. No painter wanted to primer with that toxic smell. But everything else has to be cleaned or changed to. Rugs are not salvageable. I changed all doors and trim to. They were ugly anyway. We wanted to go all white. Tore out rugs and put vinyl flooring in. Tile in the bathroom were not bad. So cleanable. Just painted windows white to. Thing is everyplace we looked at we probably would have remodeld everything anyway. Floor tiles are pretty resistant. They just need a good cleaning. Scrubing bubbles gets alot off. Bur you will never get it out completely. So if you can stand it primer is a must. If it's not real bad sometimes a good paint is good enough.
Wow i am a smoker but my house looks nothing like this and i do smoke in here sometimes that looks like she had 5 or 6 smoking friends living with her smoking it up in there i would tell the next family no smoking inside damn its ok to smoke a few in the house but that person was a Chain smokers i wonder how she paid for them all.
I'm a smoker too and my house would NEVER look like that either. sometimes I ONLY smoke in my personal bathroom, but this poor landlord got left a nasty place.🤢
@@chrissyluna8183 I agree my house needs a good painting. And i think once i get it painted i will not smoke inside anymore just because i don't want my walls to ever get nasty like this
You recommend the scrubbing bubbles, over the TSP mixture? Seems like all of that aerosol wouldn’t be good for you. I’m about to have to clean a mobile home with nicotine walls
seriously how epensive was that? tsp, a bucket of mean grean, i can think of a few other things a lot less expensive that would have done the same thing for a lot less. i rent, am a smoker and bc i love my landlord, and am a clean person in general, wash my wash my walls a lot, wouldn't use screaming bubbles simply bc of the cost!
I’m not judging anybody. Nothing should go into your lungs other than oxygen. But if you want to use nicotine just vape. It’s still bad, but it’s way less bad than cigs. People make their stupid ass comments but I don’t care. It doesn’t stink up my clothes and it doesn’t leave this nasty residue on the walls which will cause an odor.
It does not get it all off. I'm going to primer and paint. Tear out the rug. Put in flooring. Was going to do it anyway. If its not as drastic. I think primer will be enough.I hope so. One room I will have to clean first. The others are not so bad. Not much comes off even with scrubbing . So damage is minimal. Does not mean Primer oder block is a sure thing . Would hate to invest all that money and still have that stale smell. I'd have to sell. You cant live with that shit. Should have done my homework. Lot of funky orders out there. Thought you could just air out cig smoke. Me bad
@@christiantakeyourdadfishin1655 pretty good and I just used Sherwin Williams top paint. All the painters told Me that was good enough. Nobody wanted to primer. Probably because of the oder and needing a respirator. Notice once in a while I will smell cigarettes. But just found out the people below gets a visitor who smokes .I can see a cup of cigarette butts there so hopefully it's that. I always worry it will come back Then I would have to primer. But not any wood. Doors,trim ,baseboard are all new. I did paint the windows though to white. So will see. Side note the smoker who visits stays a few days at a time and smokes on the outdoor balcony. My theory is it gets through my windows . Smoke and heat rises. I don't know if the smell would travel through cement floors. My mother use to smoke in the garage below my bedroom and I never smelled it. And that was just plywood and plaster board. Hate people that smoke. They can't tell how bad there abodes smell.
disgusting, I have to do this soon to a house but the walls arent quite that bad. Im considering simple green, vinegar and now the bubbles ...they say tsp is the best but Im not sure I want to use it
Using the mop was genius. I own a cleaning co. Partners N Grime out in Houston and have watched videos & read home remedies like no other. Not only did you get creative but it worked & worked bad assly!
I'm helping my parents renovate my grandmother's mobile home she smoked in for 20 years and I've been concerned about how to remove the residue. This was massively helpful, thank you so much for posting this!
How did that work out for u? I need to clean my walls ASAP and dunno what to use
Awesome video. I used Mr. Clean and a rounded sponge mop. Did it twice because of the streaks. I smoked for the first 8 years I lived in my current apartment. But then I quit. Soon after that I noticed the walls when I took a couple picture. The flash photography shows EVERYTHING.
This is flipping amazing! Granted.. This was the worst ive seen in 30 years of property management!
This video shows me if your method can clean this mess so easily... It can clean any level of cigarette damage. Thank you for sharing! Very helpful!
your very welcome
Holy shit!! Let me run to Walmart and grab these products!! I'm doing house cleaning right now!!! And I said let me run to you too to see who has an idea on how to get this residue off of these walls and I swear this is the best one I've seen yet!!!
Right?? It's 6:30am where I am and I'm like oh shit is Walmart open? I'm ready!
Came for the cleaning tips stayed for the epic music taste 🤘🏻
Thank you so much for posting this! We worked a whole day before seeing this with little result. This works great! I really appreciate that you took the time to post this. It was so helpful!
your very welcome
@@deanlawthers6234 Your walls are serious, man. Me is also hit but... ... from smokers downstairs and in the neighborhood and have to clean like every other day or every three days, and need at least TWO air purifiers. So bloody f-ed... ... Go go go!
Bought a condo, and the bathroom has this residue on the ceilings and walls. Will definitely try this.
Outstanding! Never again a smoker in my units.Never!!!!!!
Very good to know! I'm currently in the process of cleaning my walls. I am a smoker and not supposed to smoke indoors, but.....I do sneak a few - or more inside - especially when it's -20 below or colder. 🚬🚬🤫🤭
I don't expect anyone to clean my walls, windows, appliances or carpeting. I own my own carpet cleaner. I am creating the mess and odor and usually I clean it everything from top to bottom once a year, but I have been having some serious medical issues and haven't cleaned my apartment in over a year. It's now smelling and looking so much better! The only thing I'm having a problem with is the popcorn ceiling. Not sure how to approach that....unless I should just paint it myself. I've never cleaned it. But TBH, it's not that bad. My windows are always open and I have 6 fans that constantly running at all times, summer and winter.
What I also find works very well is oxygen...like OxyClean with a household cleaner. Personally, I find Pine-Sol and Oxygen has worked the best so far. BUT I am going to pretreat the walls with Scrubbing Bubbles before the wipe down with the Pine-Sol and oxygen. For really tough stains, I highly recommend Greased Lightning. It's a must try.
I appreciate the tip!
I feel stupid for not thinking of this! I remember it says not to use on painted surfaces so naturally it’s going to cut through this stuff! You just saved me a whole lot of time ❤️
Just went to the store and picked up some. Thank you, this method looks effortless, compared to the way I was going to do it
"back offfff I'll take you onnnnnn headstrongggg to take on anyone..." lol Trapt
Thanks for posting. Did this eliminate the smell as well?
after 2 coats of primer and paint it did
Got an inherited heavy smoker recently been evicted out. Tried alcohol and dish soap to clean the cigarette stain, little effect. I will try your method to see how it works.
You will never get it back to fresh paint. All the cleaning does is removes all the crap thats on the walls before you repaint to stop the stains coming back through
Thanks for the info! I’m going Saturday to help some people clean nicotine stained walls and will try this!! Thx a bunch!
Looks like an apartment I’m having to clean now.
Im watching this video because i just started on a unit that had 2 smokers in it for 25 years..
Moving into our fixer upper forever home, previous owner has smoked inside for 20 years (but not a carton a week lol) so thank you for this video! I've been looking up best ways to get the stained walls clean so I can clean them and then paint
Glad to help!
I used this and it was good, but after that I used cleaning vinegar and that took it to a whole new level. Just open the windows and get some fans.
glad it worked for you
Did you dilute it with water?
Scrubbing Bubbles also works to get kool aid stains out of carpets
Amazing! What about the smoke odor did it help to eliminate that, or did you have to come back in with something else to eliminate odor?
Instead of smoking cigarettes, smoke weed
FYI the average cigarette sized marijuana joint has as much TAR as a regular pack or real cigarettes. So if you smoke a joint daily your lungs will suffer the same TAR damage as a pack per day cigarette smoker. But sure be blind after all it's your lungs not mine.
@@weatherphobia that’s if you smoke JOINTS which is weed mixed with tobacco, smoke blunts bro
@@weatherphobia that’s a lie lol
Holy mother that is EXCELLENT! Thank you!
Good video, sorry this happened. Glad you found a solution, I had similar issue a while back. People are so nasty
I think even with a mop you have to scrub
A sqiuggie did not work as well as the mop.
The crazy thing is you might run into a pot smoker i mean a chronic weed smoker telling the cigarette smoker he's crazy don't smoke 🤪.....
Hahahah headstrong in the background.
There are lots of things that work. TSP tri sodium phosphate, Vinegar, Baking soda, Ozone Machine, painting. Generally in the renovation business, one wants to hit a difficult problem multiple ways. I look forward to seeing how scrubbing bubbles work, I have used Vinegar and and TSP. TSP (Tri Sodium Phosphate) is a very popular cleaner, and cheaper. One has to be careful, if you paint over too much, the smoke can come through the wall paint. Both immediately and over time. In some cases in may be ok, if it comes through a little (is it even, consistent, or splotchy?) and (How long do you want it to look good and what color are you painting?) Ozone Machines are great for removing the smell, but use properly and be patient and take time. To tackle tough problems like this generally one needs to hit it multiple times. Clean everything quickly, the clean the walls good, then paint, then clean completely, ozone multiple times, drop a bunch (20) of boxes of baking soda one in every room and cabinet (baking soda can absorb some of the remaining odors) and add some air fresheners to cover some of the remaining smell. One needs to be rational are realistic in the approach. TSP and Ozone machine are the two biggest tools. Other things like placing baking soda and air fresheners are measured in their effectiveness. Baking soda is cheap, has absorbing abilities, and can probably only remove 10% of the smell, but for the $20 it costs, it well worth it. No matter what, you can never totally remove 100%, but getting a pleasant covering smell over that last 1% is totally worth it. Don't over due it on air fresheners. Kilz2 primers are also good. Hope these tips help someone.
TSP works. Cheap. Buy it at Home Depot. Windex works good. Scrubbing Bubbles-works good but I can't breath it. Maybe the unscented is better. Or a mask. I'm doing a condo. Learning all kiinds of new stuff.
How many cans of scrubbing bubbles on average do you use?
@@donnagrandevaleur4215 I mostly used TSP. Then I used a couple gallons of Windex. That seemed to work a little better than Bubbles. So not that much of that.
I think the nicotine was not the only problem w that tenent
She really left you a mess!
You're a fucking genius my guy 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
Wow! Im happy to find your video! Very useful. Would you recommend this for floorboards/trim? The trim is not varnished, if that’s any help. Thanks a lot! 🙏
don't know how it hurt to try
After you cleaned everything, primed, and painted, was the smell gone as well?
it was
I thought Dawn power wash would do it but it didn't seem to be working as well as the scrubbing bubbles. I hate using aerosol cans though. Thanks
This is great, but how did you do the ceiling?
I just used a wet mop and bucket with simple green. Had to do it twice with 2 coats of primer and 2 coats of paint
My neighbor's one-bedroom apartment is like this and she has an eight-year-old 😔
I live in a 200 year old house that had smokers living here up until like 5 years ago, I’ve been scared to start cleaning because I feared the cost. Now I’m thinking I can do the cleaning part mostly myself and just hire painters if needed!
The only problem is Scrubbing Bubbles dissolves the coating on drywall fasteners, so the dry wall falls off after about 6 weeks..... just kidding.
lol you had me
Side note . Theoreticaly you could just paint the walls with two coats of a good oder eating primer. That's what a couple of so called expert painters on TH-cam suggest. They said they don't bother cleaning anymore. Because you never get it all off. But cleaning is fine. But you would still have to paint with good paint. That's what I did. No painter wanted to primer with that toxic smell. But everything else has to be cleaned or changed to. Rugs are not salvageable. I changed all doors and trim to. They were ugly anyway. We wanted to go all white. Tore out rugs and put vinyl flooring in. Tile in the bathroom were not bad. So cleanable. Just painted windows white to. Thing is everyplace we looked at we probably would have remodeld everything anyway. Floor tiles are pretty resistant. They just need a good cleaning. Scrubing bubbles gets alot off. Bur you will never get it out completely. So if you can stand it primer is a must. If it's not real bad sometimes a good paint is good enough.
I can’t believe people see stuff like this and STILL SMOKE💀
Thank you so much!
Over cleaner is good for cleaning showers and bathtubs
Wow i am a smoker but my house looks nothing like this and i do smoke in here sometimes that looks like she had 5 or 6 smoking friends living with her smoking it up in there i would tell the next family no smoking inside damn its ok to smoke a few in the house but that person was a Chain smokers i wonder how she paid for them all.
@Leilababy89 Oh i no i will soon be 36. They are crazy high now So when i do get a pack i try to make them last a few days
I'm a smoker too and my house would NEVER look like that either. sometimes I ONLY smoke in my personal bathroom, but this poor landlord got left a nasty place.🤢
@@chrissyluna8183 I agree my house needs a good painting. And i think once i get it painted i will not smoke inside anymore just because i don't want my walls to ever get nasty like this
How many cans of cleaner did the whole place take?
5 or 6
Genius thank you for the tip
Happy to help!
You recommend the scrubbing bubbles, over the TSP mixture? Seems like all of that aerosol wouldn’t be good for you. I’m about to have to clean a mobile home with nicotine walls
seriously how epensive was that? tsp, a bucket of mean grean, i can think of a few other things a lot less expensive that would have done the same thing for a lot less. i rent, am a smoker and bc i love my landlord, and am a clean person in general, wash my wash my walls a lot, wouldn't use screaming bubbles simply bc of the cost!
that place needs to be condemned
Thank you very much!!! Will definitely help me out!!!
Thanks a bunch for sharing
wow! The before and after!
Is that a flat paint texture
semi gloss
WINDEX AND A MAGIC ERASER WIPES IT RIGHT OFF!!!
No. It does not work. There to small and break apart. And you have to use alot of eblow grease. And it still barely makes a dent.
I’m not judging anybody. Nothing should go into your lungs other than oxygen. But if you want to use nicotine just vape. It’s still bad, but it’s way less bad than cigs. People make their stupid ass comments but I don’t care. It doesn’t stink up my clothes and it doesn’t leave this nasty residue on the walls which will cause an odor.
Vinager works too
I tried pine sol, on my walls and it gets the job done
That would never work on flat paint
Thanks
It does not get it all off. I'm going to primer and paint. Tear out the rug. Put in flooring. Was going to do it anyway. If its not as drastic. I think primer will be enough.I hope so. One room I will have to clean first. The others are not so bad. Not much comes off even with scrubbing . So damage is minimal. Does not mean Primer oder block is a sure thing .
Would hate to invest all that money and still have that stale smell. I'd have to sell. You cant live with that shit. Should have done my homework. Lot of funky orders out there. Thought you could just air out cig smoke.
Me bad
1 year later, how’d it go, Tom?
@@christiantakeyourdadfishin1655 pretty good and I just used Sherwin Williams top paint. All the painters told
Me that was good enough. Nobody wanted to primer. Probably because of the oder and needing a respirator. Notice once in a while I will smell cigarettes. But just found out the people below gets a visitor who smokes .I can see a cup of cigarette butts there so hopefully it's that. I always worry it will come back
Then I would have to primer. But not any wood. Doors,trim ,baseboard are all new. I did paint the windows though to white. So will see. Side note the smoker who visits stays a few days at a time and smokes on the outdoor balcony. My theory is it gets through my windows . Smoke and heat rises. I don't know if the smell would travel through cement floors. My mother use to smoke in the garage below my bedroom and I never smelled it. And that was just plywood and plaster board. Hate people that smoke. They can't tell how bad there abodes smell.
Amaze balls!!!
disgusting, I have to do this soon to a house but the walls arent quite that bad. Im considering simple green, vinegar and now the bubbles ...they say tsp is the best but Im not sure I want to use it
Imagine her lungs 😳
MAN WHAT A MESS !!! I'M SO SORRY !!!
Witch ingridients do you use?
Which - not witch.
VERTICAL VIDEO STILL IN 2019???????????????????????
Yes that’s works I’ve used it on doors it’s the best it bubbles the dirt up
Complete slumlord
The LANDLORD? is going to educate them on keeping their sink tidy?.....
I smoke and to see yellow brown on my walls sickens me,i cant imagine what my lungs look like,omg God help me
When you have to clean yes I do know it can be bad
Amazing
So what are you spraying and using????
He literally showed it
So what were the chemicals used to get the cig smoke off with
Scrubbing Bubbles
we have been looking for a cleaner for nicotine
rent a steam cleaner.
Will this mess up paint? My walls are red.
i wouldnt think so but i would try a small section first
Has anyone tried this?
😍
Impressive!
Omfg
Ewww so gross!
Gross!
These smokers are seriously crazy. Ya so right. I am so affected by them, hence... .. Singapore has to go.