Would you buy a smelly house?

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One that smelt of cigarette smoke?

I would - for the right price.
The smell of dogs/cigs lingers in fabrics - not walls or ceilings.
And I've always wanted to change leftover carpets & curtains because they are never to my taste

Yes I did, smoke, dog and grease. But we were planning to strip carpets out and strip wallpaper/ repaint walls before moving in anyway. It was fine after a deep clean and that work. I wouldn't have lived in it before doing all that work though.

Love the name OP
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Absolutely not. New carpets, total redecorating throughout to get Rid of the stench.

I’d be offering way under what I’d offer for an identical house without the awful smell.

If the price was reasonable yes.

and you have left the building

I went to see what seemed to be the perfect house - apart from the smoking smell. The expelair fans, light switches, sockets, door handles, walls - everything- was coated in yellow tar. My clothes reeked when I left. I did look into getting it blasted to remove the smell but as others have said, when it’s been that bad it seeps into the joists and so would need new floorboards, plaster, sockets etc. Too much work for what I wanted and the sale price was a lot less than any similar nearby, I am sure it had an impact.

Yes I would if it was good in every other way.

You can get rid of smells and smoke stains.

@vodkaredbullgirl

Love the name OP .

😂have changed because I wanted to see reaction and then share with other non MNers....

I did, years ago, without realising it - summer, I had terrible hay fever.
It was parents that pointed out the smell & my mum who started pulling up the living room carpet.
I'd bought it knowing it needed redecorating from top to bottom & lived without carpets until I was ready to put new flooring down.

@vodkaredbullgirl

and you have left the building

Sorry had to deal with dc minor injury

Thank you all for replies
Particularly the mention of the ozone machine

We moved into a council house. The previous tenant, little old lady who did in hospital was a chain smoker. Council cleaning team did such a great job we didn't know until I opened a window and saw the yellow PVC around the lock, only other sign was the wire for the nets was stained yellow, changed them at once. Obviously not quite the same as I only rent and it was take it or go back to the botton of the housing list.

It wouldn't put me off - it's more work to get it clean and get rid of the nicotine from everything, but if I loved the place, it would be worth it.

Yes I did and would again. Repainted every wall and replaced all carpets and the cigarette smell disappeared.

My first flat, the elderly couple I bought from were heavy smokers - you could tell from the stains on the ceiling where they had habitually sat.

Kept the windows open for the first few weeks (summer, thankfully!) and everything was fine - smell dealt with.

We once viewed the perfect house for us, but the old lady who lived there had lots of cats who had clearly been using the living room carpet as a giant toilet! However, we really, really wanted the house so we pressed on with our offer. We were gutted when it turned out that the old lady had been made a ward of court, as she had dementia, and she wasn't permitted to sell the house. So, in answer to your question, yes we'd buy a smelly house with a view to working tirelessly to get rid of the cause, but only if the situation, etc was really perfect.

Yes - if I liked the house a cigarette smell wouldn't bother me at all. Easy enough to get rid of.

If you could see the kind of shithole houses I've ever been in a position to buy...if I were fussy I would be homeless. A decomposing body in the sitting room wouldn't put me off if the price was right.

We did. It was a deceased estate and really cheap in a great area. We knew we would be stripping it back to basics anyway. It was pretty bad, the paintwork was all stained yellow and even the bathroom ceiling was yellowed and smelt horrendous when it got damp after a shower.

Once the carpets were up and the wallpaper off it was much better smell-wise. Now everything is repainted/ cleaned there is no smell. Was worth it in the end but did take a good 12- 18 months to go completely, so depends how sensitive your nose is!

Bear in mind that the smell of smoke may be masking other smells. For example, when the indoor smoking ban came in many clubs/pubs had to close foe a deep clean/aircon refit or whatever, because, as the smell of fags cleared, the stench from the bogs became apparent....

My friend did.

They literally gutted the place, new plaster, paint and flooring. It took that to get rid of the smell, along with deep cleaning. No hope otherwise.

My mum has a cupboard in her spare bedroom that stinks of smoke despite lots of cleaning and painting and many years. It just gets in the walls.

I wouldn't be thrilled about fag smoke but dog piss would completely put me off because that can go onto the floor itself. 🤢

Yes if it was cheap enough. Our first house smelt of dog and God knows what. We knew we had to do a lot of work to it. First job was getting rid of all the carpet. Then we had to wash down all the walls and ceilings. That's before we could even move in. But it was £20,000 cheaper than the house next door (on the market at the same time) and had an upstairs bathroom when the house next door had a downstairs bathroom. So we reckoned that was easily worth £20 grand.

@BlueTuesday20

Bear in mind that the smell of smoke may be masking other smells. For example, when the indoor smoking ban came in many clubs/pubs had to close foe a deep clean/aircon refit or whatever, because, as the smell of fags cleared, the stench from the bogs became apparent....

Oh yeah, I remember nightclubs adding scent to the dry ice to cover up the stench of piss and vomit

No, I probably wouldn't. I rented a house once where the previous tenant had been smoking inside, most noticeably in the main bedroom. It smelt so bad but I thought that because it was being repainted, aired out and having new carpets put in that the smell would go, but it didn't. I tried so many different things to get rid of the smell but it never quite left and it was really disgusting.

No unless massively discounted for the perfect house location and size as would need rip everything out and replasterand re do flooring at least carpets and linos tiles and wood okish