I am currently cleaning my parents' house where my mother smoked multiple packs of cigarettes for 45+ years. At this point, the tar is decades old and the only thing that melts it (yes, melts) is hot (boiling water), Fabuloso, and blue Dawn dish detergent. The hotter the water, the more the tar melts. I don't know if we will ever completely eliminate the smell. Its so nasty. Your video is true to life. Every inch of the house has to deep cleaned.

I just bought a home and I'm having to this as well. Who tf smokes indoors. It's disgusting.

So much hard work! Well done. 👏 It was kind of like watching an anti-smoking after school special! 🚭

I wiped down all my walls with vinegar, rag came up dark brown! My slumlord doesn't want to paint, they told me I could move out. Sprayed the popcorn ceiling too. Already smells much better. And yes, smoking inside is nasty!

I'm looking at buying an apartment which a smoker lived in for 17 years. Thanks for this brilliant video. Lots of food for thought.

Wow I am so glad I don’t smoke. I had no idea that smoke and tar affected a house like that. I’d be wearing gloves 🧤 and a mask 😷 thank you for the tips.

Is the smoke smell still gone? I hope so. Would you do an update video?

for vents I use a 50-50 mix of vinagar and water (if it is REALLY BAD I use lemon juice instead of vinegar as it is more acidic) but that in a cheap steamer and steam the vents and inside duct where I can reach. oh, and disposable towels or torn-up ones to throwout once you wipe up.

i always use lemon ammonia..it literally strips nicotine from anything

imagine what their lungs look like

I just bought a home and boy do I have my work cut out for me. Going to use tsp and unsmoke I found on Amazon. Hopefully it does the job and then use kilz restoration. I just can't believe how someone can smoke let alone indoors when its so nasty.

dont you still have the toxins to disturb your health over long run even if you get rid of the smoke?

I rent a renovated smokers apartment, the walls are white, but there still is this cold smoke smell in all my clothes and in furniture- iWould an Ozone Treatment work too?

Too much work. Just burn 🔥 the house down!

Dang I just wish you would get to the point I can't even watch this all you're doing is talking about nothing get to the point about removing the cigarette smell already jeez

The upside down one is called your hat hot, is controlled with a light switch and that comes from the electrical code

Great video! Thanks for posting. Did you consider refinishing the hard wood floors? I'm thinking if they were sealed with three coats of polyurethane that might Seal and get rid of the smell? Also, did you change the carpet after all? I'm in the same boat, debating if I should rip out hardwoods and run LVP throughout. Checking out your ozone video next!

Did you paint kitchen cabinets with the same "odor removing" primer as walls?

Dang, hadn't thought about the windows yet.... 😳😒 Such a drag and sad across the board. 🚬🚫 Thank you for sharing. Thank you to the commenters with your ideas and products!😃

Bugs hate tar and nicotine. In 30 years from now I wonder what will considered yucky ?

We got a good deal on a house once by buying it from a dying smoker. It was disgusting and expensive, but we were able to restore it buy gutting it and doing all those other things. In the end, I think it might have been easier to just build a whole damn house.

Clean the walls and ceiling. Then paint it and then change carpet and fixtures. Throw one of those scented air filters.

Good video, dont mean to be that guy but watching you scratch the hell out of that light switch and then lick your finger to show us the duct filter cover just kinda turned my guts 😅

Did that 5 gal. bucket of primer do the whole house or did you need two?

Do you regret buying the home?

I've grown up with people smoking around me. So unless there isn't a direct source of smoke I can't really smell it that much. Although I do try cleaning the fixtures of the flim.

99% complaining, 1% cleaning. What a waste of time this video was.

What did you do for the pipes -- in the sink specifically b/c i can smell residue coming from the drain.

Let me just say....I am of the generation where everybody smoked. You smoked in restaurants. You smoked in bars and on airplanes. Hell, even the doctors smoked INSIDE the hospitals. Guess what....just like those establishments, I washed my walls and other surfaces routinely, and there was no problem. Then my husband and I purchased a home. The previous owner was a candle burning freak! I had a hell of a time getting the soot and grime off surfaces. Nothing compares to that nightmare. It's like trying to scrub a waxy film off something, only to keep spreading it around and around. I would buy a nicotine ladled home over a flowery candle (scentsy) sooted one any day.

How did the odor killing primer work out? I’m pretty much in the exact same situation and trying to use a combination of ozone and odor killing primer to get rid of a mystery scent.

Had no idea cigarette smoke could do so much damage to a house.

Im grateful my smoker unit had radiators rather than HVAC vents...

My next door neighbor in the apartment is smoking marijuana, and it's coming through my vents

How do u remove nicotine stains from cabinets

Does this actually work? Or does the smell never fully go away?

After looking at this video I realize how naive I am and the reason why I'm saying this is I cannot believe or understand how can people be so disgusting and so garbage and trash to even consider putting so much disgusting smoke inside their home,, some people are really parasites in society

Sooooo disgusting. What? S-O-O-O-O-O DISGUSTING!!! OK. Got it.

Unfortunately I smoked cigarettes near my backdoor and now I quit smoking and I can still smell cigarette smoke and I'm hearing that vinegar, Dawn, and peroxide mixed together will clean the area! Yes it's disgusting and I'm glad i quit!! I never even liked the smell in the first place 😔 who would?

What happend at the end ??all the smell when away ???

Smiley face, creepy ones 😆 Never heard that some one describes outlets like that.

Every time he says, "nasty" and "disgusting" you gotta drink 🥂

Spraying all that stuff without masks and eye protection?

Look great!!

OMG WHAT A DRAMA QUEEN!

I think the best is use of a ozone machine .

Same here.

But after all that, did it work?

Remove the appliance’s too.

So you know, I keep my mind you really slowly buddy

It’s not just scent

My daughter said get rid of smoker

Call Peggy Cerati what are you doing?

Maybe I’ll pick up smoking… 🤷🏼‍♂️

Yes, we all know there is tar build up. The title is misleading. I am at least 8 minutes in and all you have done is talk about how gross and disgusting everything is!!! This is supposed to be a cleaning video. Bye.

Ozone the place

overkill

That's not telling folks how to clear the smell.. just replace this replace that... rip up floors... your funny

Too long and slow

If you stop complaining? You might get something done. You should have asked for help. I would come and, help. Without complaining about it.

Zzzzzzzz

Probably shouldn't have bought a house that had heavy smokers if you're that anal about the nasty tar.

I work for a realtor and do from emptying what's left behind to cleaning this and much worse as well as repairs and landscaping. I'm Really discouraged for you that you had to pay for that kind of cleaning service! Everybody should take pride in what they do because their name is attached to it and you should have walked in there and seen none of what you just showed just to the 1st 3 minutes of this video I'm discouraged for you.. I work alone and I work hard and if it means long hours to get something done right and done well then that's what I do. Let me give you a product name that I swear by and a promise promise promise promise you will never need anything else else in your Arsenal of cleaning supplies other than Rags and sponges are whatever. The name of this product is called knockout you will have to call local industrial cleaning places cleaning places. It costs between $33 $37 about and comes in a gallon jug. You you mix it with water accordingly to what you're gonna be using it on but I can tell you right now that you will never all that you will never need to or expect anybody else to use so much energy scrubbing anything from Greece To anything else you can think of there's no need to scrub a new user stuff it's that good.. That said it has one of the nicest smells that will Make it feel good to walk in and be able to smell the clean as well as see it. The great thing about it is it is a disinfectant deodorizer deodorizer and sanitizer so so not only does it clean like a degreaser on anything but you can spray it in the air and vent safely. I have had to use this on some of the worst places I've ever seen in my life from what you're dealing with to people that have pets that just never used the bathroom outhere's the bathroom outside and I can promise you that this stuff is not a waste of any Dollar that you spend. I hope you have luck with your new rental take care and thanks for the video