Getting rid of a stale smell?

If you put 1/4 vodka and 3/4 water in a bottle it works as a deodorizer ... another suggestion would be to just try different things until you find what works, like washing the walls with bleach, febreeze, lysol (disinfectant spray)...etc....

yea the smoke lingers! but get some burners and the candle t lights and a few of the yankee candle tablets they are strong and will take the smell away and better and cheaper than the yankee candle's try to keep the windows open a little and yes the soda bicarb on the carpets are great then hoover hope this helps?

portray would not incredibly do away with that smell. earlier it became into painted the partitions and ceiling could have been washed with TSP - then thoroughly rinsed with water. Then it is going to have been painted with an oil based primer like KILZ earlier it became into portray. Plus if the guy had lived there for a protracted time - that smell won't get out of the carpet. the owner could have replaced the carpet (and wiped sparkling and primed the wood floor below) Plus the heating ducts might might desire to be wiped sparkling. I had a real stable smell in my homestead as quickly as we bought it and we had to do all those issues. maximum possibly your landlord is going to grant you a complicated time approximately doing the job top.

Sugar soap is good but vinegar will help get rid of the nicotine on the wall. Add them together. After vinegar smell goes away the musty will go with it the nicotine is a sticky substance that will coat walls and ceilings. incense is just as bad and the smell won't stay.

Sprinkle Baking Soda over the carpets. Let it sit for a while then vacuum. They make special powder that gets rid of Smoke smell pretty well.

as others have said, use baking soda on the carpets, and wash everything. and you can also leave out a thing of baking soda over night so that it can absorb the smells. It helps. It will be alot of work.

sprinkle bicarbonate soda over the carpets and allow to stay, overnight if possible

then vacuum

it absorbs the smell

wash everything else including walls baseboards etc with sugar soap

its a difficult smell to get rid of, but you do need to get rid of it, you wont mask it with other things such as Insense etc

Smoke is like a fog that will deposit on every single exposed surface, so wash every surface that you can: walls, floors, ceilings, countertops, cabinets,etc. I would then come back and repaint. The paint will form a barrier to the remaining contaminants.

you will have to wash everything and then paint it with kilz

Kill it with febreze!