Is it possible to get rid of cigarette smell?

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My daughter took me along to a flat viewing today. The flat was great and on a nice, safe street. It was clean, in fresh decorative order throughout and the owner was really lovely. She has lived there for 30 years.
However I could tell she was a smoker the second I walked through the door.
This will be my daughter's first time living away from home, and I want her first purchase be right. She loves the flat but is still on the fence re the smell.
I'm guessing it will get a lot better once the furnishings have been removed, and when properly aired out. The flat has a lot going for it otherwise, and it's in a town where not much comes onto the market.
Thoughts?

You can but it’ll take a bit of work…. a good airing, proper carpet clean and lick of paint. Some nice candles or reed diffusers etc.

might take a while.

Thank you!

Sugar soap and vinegar and steam wallpaper off and a good airing, maybe get a professional cleaning company in for her.

It's a big job, need to wash down all the walls, ceiling, woodwork and doors. Carpet clean with a good deodoriser, replace other soft furnishings/blinds. Fresh coat of paint, and lots of airing should do it. But it's easy to miss bits.

And some of the smell will go when the woman moves out I mean you will still have stale smell and maybe some nicotine on the walls which is vile bur washes off.

Nope. It will never go. Sorry.

That isn't true, my mum stopped smoking redecorated her house and it honestly doesn't smell now.

It will take a lot of time and effort and I wouldn't bother myself. Fag Smoke permeates into the walls and floors. Urgh!

My sister bought a bungalow where the previous owner was a heavy smoker and it took months and a lot of money in redecorating, new carpets and curtains throughout, to get rid of the smell.

It will take a long, long time to go. It's so grim.

Wallpaper will absorb the smell, fresh painting will get rid of that smell. It wouldn't be a deal breaker fir me unless the walls and ceilings were yellow already.

Honestly this is similar to what I was going to say. In clothes and furniture it's definitely possible to remove the smell but from a house it's much much more difficult almost to the point of never going to happen. Without ripping everything out replacing carpets, wood flooring, going back to brick etc it will be pretty much impossible.

I would think very hard about buying any property which had been smoked in, the costs both in money and time to fix the issue properly will be astronomical.

But there was a time pretty much all homes were smoked in. Millions and millions of properties. They do not all smell.

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Of course it will. Clean and clean again. Takes effort and time, but it will go.

likely when buying a house previously owned for 39 years that your daughter will want to redecorate, re-carpet, etc etc that’ll all help too.

Do you guys honestly think that nobody has smoked in a house 100’s of years old? Hell even 50 years old.

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Oh course the smell will go. Pubs don't smell of cigarettes anymore and they've had generations of people puffing away inside.

You can hire ozone machines (I think that's what they are) which help with smells

We moved into a flat with a strong smell of curry powder/oil from cooking. Tried everything for about 6 weeks and very little change. One weekend of the ozone machine cleared it. You still have to wash everything but it gets the last bits out that keep coming back after you close the windows