Completely Eliminate Lingering Cigarette and Pipe Smoke Odors From Walls While Protecting Your Family from the Odors Reemitting Back Into the Room

It’s no secret that people smoke and that over time these odors get embedded in the soft materials in their homes. Unfortunately, those smells also get into the paint on their walls. Odor removal can be a challenge, especially if the build-up was accumulated over the years. The major contributors to these off-putting smells are cigarettes, cigars, pipes, and even marijuana. Opening windows is not enough to remove the pervasive (dangerous) and overwhelming stench of smoke.

Steps Guaranteed to Eliminate Smoke Odors:

While these steps are temporary, they can be used to bridge the gap until you can get your odor issue resolved permanently.

Vinegar Scrub – This step takes little time, money and effort. The walls need to be cleaned first. The best formula is 25% Cider Vinegar to water; some have even recommended baking soda be added to the solution. While scrubbing the walls, toxins from the smoke will generally pour down in streams. Make sure to dump the bucket and use a clean water solution and cloths regularly. Using dirty water will not eliminate the smells. In fact, it can exacerbate them. No one wants to pay for or do a job that needs to be redone.
Vinegar as a freshener – Most of the time, this step is not feasible, but if possible, close up the room with more vinegar. Letting straight vinegar stand in an open container for 12 to 24 hours, afterward open the windows.

Depending on the room’s size, it should only take a day (or less) to properly scrub those walls if the room can sit enclosed anytime with the additional open containers of vinegar that is sure to help. Painting can then be done within 24 hours from the original scrubbing, so downtime should not be an issue. For further reading, we published an article on how to mask common household odors here –https://odordefenderpaint.com/indoor-air-quality/3792-masking-household-odors-vs-eliminating-odors-whats-the-difference-how-to-remove-smoke-odor-from-walls/

Tips to Eliminate Cigarette Odor Trapped in Paint on Your wall

We always read and hear about the dangers of cigarette smoke on our lungs. The scariest in lung cancer! Do you know the environmental hazards nicotine can cause on your house wall? Cigarette smoke and the associated odor make it hard to breathe. You may be in love with the new house, but the smell irritates you. What will you do? Let’s see some of the corrective measures to restore order.

Air your rooms

You can purify the air by opening the windows and fans to restore fresh air. Run the air purifier throughout the cleaning, priming, and painting process. The inside atmosphere will be more pleasant to smell and breathe.

The Most Successful Option is to Seal the Walls with an Odor-Blocking Paint

The only way to keep away the smell from your room is to use an odor sealing paint. The irritating cigarette odor has nicotine, which affects your health. You do not want to risk the side effects of the smoke. Painting with odor-blocking paint is an effective solution for you. ECOBOND® OdorDefender® is the only specialty paint that can seal and treat hazardous odors to improve your indoor air quality. Because odors are sealed, blocked, and absorbed, it gives the very best protection for your children & family!

Over time, pollutants and odors from tobacco and pot smoke, as well as pet odors, collect and concentrate on surfaces creating an unpleasant, potentially unsafe indoor air quality condition and could cause significant health risks.

Recent research from the National Institute of Health found that these toxic brews, called ThirdHand Smoke, can then reemit back into the air and recombine to form harmful compounds that remain at high levels long after smoking has stopped occurring.

There are only 3 options:

1 – Ignore this serious problem
2 – Cover it up with standard paint, providing minimal benefit
3 – Apply a specialty environmental paint uniquely formulated to seal, block, absorb and capture existing odors, fumes, and chemical pollutants.

ECOBOND® OdorDefender® is a professional-grade Eco-friendly, odor-blocking paint designed for sealing, blocking & absorbing existing dangerous odors and fumes from the effects of cigarette smoke, pot smoke, fire, as well as pet odors and substantially improves indoor air quality.