Smoking in a rented property

melanzana

lovinituk wrote: »

People don't generally cook garlic 20+ times a day!

But just once a day is enough to sicken anyone who enters a house where cooking smells are all pervasive. You have to agree that the smell of cooking and frying is an abomination for those who visit.

Those who live there don't notice it at all. They just enjoy the food.

lovinituk

melanzana wrote: »

But just once a day is enough to sicken anyone who enters a house where cooking smells are all pervasive. You have to agree that the smell of cooking and frying is an abomination for those who visit.

Those who live there don't notice it at all. They just enjoy the food.

No I don't agree. Cooking smells don't linger like cigarette smells and don't cause smoke stains around a large area. Your attempt at a clever analogy failed.

melanzana

lovinituk wrote: »

No I don't agree. Cooking smells don't linger like cigarette smells and don't cause smoke stains around a large area. Your attempt at a clever analogy failed.

So, Ok, I have to redecorate my kitchen every couple of years because of cooking smells and stains, and no matter what we do, steam, grease etc. builds up on the ceiling and on the curtains/blinds. Can't stop it, it is life!

That is a sad fact, but true. There are more houses that smell of cooking than smell of cigs nowadays, but there we are. And it does linger, believe me!

Maybe the cig smells hid it all back in the day though. That is a possibility I suppose.

Ratison

Having moved into a house lived in by a smoker, we're pretty much going to have to gut the place to get rid of the smell. Not just carpets, but replacing radiators, fitted wardrobes, bathroom and kitchen. It gets everywhere and those who say it doesn't smell are deluding themselves.

-taff

Torry_Quine wrote: »

I'm not naive. people meeting me for the first time have told me that there is no smell lingering. Washing your clothes is an overreaction and no way does your underwear smell! 👙

Until I stopped smoking I didn't realise just how much it smells.
I go rond a friends house in the evening occasionally, she smokes while I'm there. I can smel it when I go in, and I can smell it on my hair and my clothes the next day.

McKneff

I stopped smoking last April and just didn't realise how much I must have stunk,
for a good while after we stopped as we walked back into the conseratory where we smoked it was absolutely disgusting......


Someone came to sit next to me in a hospital waiting room who must have just had a fag in their car and she also smelled disgusting.


If you smoke in your house, just do this test, bury your face in a handful of curtains, you will soon know how much your house hums....

melanzana

Ratison wrote: »

Having moved into a house lived in by a smoker, we're pretty much going to have to gut the place to get rid of the smell. Not just carpets, but replacing radiators, fitted wardrobes, bathroom and kitchen. It gets everywhere and those who say it doesn't smell are deluding themselves.

Change the RADIATORS? Along with everything else, and the kitchen?

That sounds a bit radical to me.

I would strip the wallpaper, shampoo the carpets, re paint, and keep the windows open a lot.

What you describe sounds OTT. Totally, sorry.

It is not the plague remember.

Bluebirdman_of_Alcathays

melanzana wrote: »

It is not the plague remember.

No - cigarettes have killed far more people than the plague :money:

melanzana

Bluebirdman_of_Alcathays wrote: »

No - cigarettes have killed far more people than the plague :money:

Prove it......lol.

Sorry, I know people have died in plagues and from smoking, I'd better be careful here. :eek:

gfplux

I am not part of the anti smoking brigade. I am a smoker who has not had a cigarette for over 20 years (one day at a time) however I do want to tell smokers that they should stop for their good health and the pocket. I smoked three (yes 3) packets a day so I can claim to be a serious smoker.
People who smoke DO CARRY the smell of smoking with them. Their cars and homes smell.
BUT if you are a smoker you don't think so....... fact.
All non smokers know it, all non smokers can smell smoke on their cloths and hair if they have visited a smoking home....... fact.
No amount of denial will change those facts.