Buying a smokers house

always_sunny

I think you would have to gut it down completely, anything that has porous surface would be stinking of smoke! Get a reduction on the price, it's even worse than a short leasehold!

Even the fainted smell of smoke is gross, I wouldn't be able to sleep in such house.

robatwork

While we're playing this game - the next-to-rear and next-to-front cars of the Piccadilly line were the smoking ones in the 80s. If you were in a hurry at Rayners Lane and jumped on a train about to leave you could get very smoky. Those carriages were completely yellowed from the nicotine.

lincroft1710

I seem to remember back in the 1960s/70s, it was for easier to find a seat in non smoking compartments/carriages on trains.

zagubov

lincroft1710 wrote: »

I seem to remember back in the 1960s/70s, it was for easier to find a seat in non smoking compartments/carriages on trains.

Same with smoking areas of restaurants etc. Any groups or parties containing smokers would fill those areas, so they'd contain some smokers and loads of non-smokers. Only groups with no smokers could use the non-smoking areas.

Riggyman

You all need to get vaping. You can do it anywhere as long as you hold the vapour in long enough :cool:

My favourite place is the company board room, yes it's banned, but how will they ever know...:

PS if you don't smoke for Gawds sake don't start vaping.

PPS if you do smoke for Gawds sake start vaping.

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We both smoke ,always have, in our current new home we smoke in one room only with windows open, plug ins and candles burning, you would never know we smoked.
In our last home when both kids were at home 4 of us smoked in every room, we sold it the day we put it up for sale to a young non smoking family no problems, i think the smoking police make too much of such issues shame they have nothing else to worry about !

Fosterdog

venison wrote: »

We both smoke ,always have, in our current new home we smoke in one room only with windows open, plug ins and candles burning, you would never know we smoked.
In our last home when both kids were at home 4 of us smoked in every room, we sold it the day we put it up for sale to a young non smoking family no problems, i think the smoking police make too much of such issues shame they have nothing else to worry about !

You may think that nobody would notice but believe me it is noticeable to a non/ex smoker. In my MILs old house she did pretty much everything you describe, smoked just in one room, opened windows, plug ins, candles and had an air purifier running for several hours every day and to her it was fine she thought all of that masked it but I'd still jump in the shower as soon as getting home from visiting to get the smell from my hair and clothes would be straight in the wash. It wasn't just me who noticed, OH, BIL, SIL and nieces all did the same as we are all non or ex smokers. She wouldn't even smoke when we were there and we'd only quickly pass through the room to the next room and it was that bad.
In her new house she only smokes outside but from it being on her clothes you can still smell it inside in every room, and that is just from what comes back in on her as she doesn't even smoke near an open door or window for it to get in that way.

It is one of those smells that you don't notice it if you are used to it but to anyone else it is very noticeable and almost impossible to mask.

Davesnave

venison wrote: »

i think the smoking police make too much of such issues shame they have nothing else to worry about !

There are no 'smoking police,' just people who don't like the smell of burnt tobacco.

If your house is as pristine as you think, then you have no problem, so you needn't worry about other people having nothing else to worry about!

Doody

troubleinparadise wrote: »

Yes, smoking in cinemas - most definitely still allowed in the 70's - along with on airplanes, trains, the London underground - that was only fully banned in 1987!

So smoking was very much a generally accepted activity until pretty much fairly recently.

But information that it was bad for your health was known about quite some years before, but not the issue of "passive smoking" - that was a more recent finding; I'm sure someone will know a time frame for that.

Thank heavens those times of almost universal acceptance have passed.

My mother who was born in 1928 told me about smoking in her twenties. That it was so much the norm that if a person were to have an accident in the street, the normal part of helping them would be to light a cigarette for them.

Her house stank. I'd try to keep my clothes way from walls and floors when visiting but would always have to wash everything after leaving.

I don't know that we are having to do anything as drastic as new plaster to make it smell better now it is on the market. As other have said, plastic fittings have had to be changed but not all of them. Mostly the ones in smaller areas where she smoked, the bathroom and kitchen.The carpets are the worst. I've used baking soda and vinegar and febreze and fabric fresheners which all help temporarily but the smell comes back.

robatwork

venison wrote: »

We both smoke ,always have, in our current new home we smoke in one room only with windows open, plug ins and candles burning, you would never know we smoked.
In our last home when both kids were at home 4 of us smoked in every room, we sold it the day we put it up for sale to a young non smoking family no problems, i think the smoking police make too much of such issues shame they have nothing else to worry about !

You're a bit too defensive. You really have to accept that those of us with sensitive schnozzers will know that you smoke.

Even at work when the smokers walk back into the office having been outside, I can smell the fag stench.

Nobody is saying you can't smoke in your house - but don't expect visitors or prospective buyers to not notice it and be put off, some of them will and some of them will.