advice needed - getting rid of smoke smell

[mumsville]

I was staying at my mums. We went out and got home to find that the house was full as smoke as she'd left a pan of beans boiling. When I say full of burning smoke - I mean it. No fire and the smoke wasn't black (had we come back half an hour later it could have been a different story).

Opened windows and the smoke cleared quickly but the smell..... She's tried fragrances and cleaning the surfaces but the smell comes back after about 6 hours.

Any tips? Will the smell ever go???????

I find that it takes several days' aring for the smell of smoke to go.

Does your mum have lots of soft furnighings in the kitchen? Washing them might help - especially curtains, for some reason.

Vinegar gets rid of the smell of vomit, I wonder whether it would work for smoke? You just leave some in a bowl in th room - windows closed - for 24h or so. Of course the room then smells of vinegar, but that goes very quickly once you pour the vinegar away.

HTH

pretty

many thanks. Definately worth a shot - smell alternates between a smoky pub with stale fag ends and burnt toast!!!