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Smoke damaged house - Paint?

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RSWORDS

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I am in the process of buying this home to live in for a short time while building my other one. Plan on fixing it up to be a rental after I move out. The PO had an issue with the gas logs and it completly filled the house with soot. They got everything torn out and scrubbed mostly down. You cant get anything to come off with a dry rag. Its been sitting a bit closed up so there is some small mold/mildew spots that i plan on cleaning too. After all that Am I good to just hit it with kills and then paint?

My daughter will be staying with me so I want it right, But I also don't need super fancy.

And yes I know the other issues with the roof LOL


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In my experience,kilz did the job, but it took several coats. I was dealing with nicotine that had been smoked into the walls though. I just needed a barrier that kept the moisture from getting in and pulling through the paint.
 
We had a fire years ago where some plastic burned and put soot through the whole house. Company came in and did the cleaning, but the worst areas, room where the fire started, got Kilz and paint after the cleaning was done and didn't smell or notice any adverse issues for years before the house sold
 
junkytj said:
In my experience,kilz did the job, but it took several coats. I was dealing with nicotine that had been smoked into the walls though. I just needed a barrier that kept the moisture from getting in and pulling through the paint.
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That one of those houses where you could see where the pictures used to hang?:barf: We cleaned up a smokers house that was like that. It took a lotta paint
 
Steve300xcw said:
That one of those houses where you could see where the pictures used to hang?:barf: We cleaned up a smokers house that was like that. It took a lotta paint
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Yes, it was disgusting. There were actual yellow drops going down the wall that we scrubbed with 409 and followed up with bleach. We did that 3 times and kept coming back. So the 4th time I just followed that a coat of kilz. It cam back so I just wiped it off and hit it with 2 more coats. After a couple of months, we went back with color. I was young and stupid and it was our first house. Knowing what I do now, I would have just ripped out the sheetrock in the worst two rooms and started with the kilz right away on the rest.
 
Some places will tint 5 gallons of kilz for you if you plan on going for a color besides white. They don't like to do it because the color usually comes out a tad off. But it's definitely close enough to just go 1 coat of paint over it quickly.

We found a guy at Lowes that would do it no problem when I was doing property maintenance. So I always called to see if he was working before coming in. Some of the others were pecker necks and simply refused. But we used the same color on all the units and time was money so it was worth tinting. But we always skipped one wall per closet that wasn't visible from the room too.:smokin:
 
A good primer maybe 2 coats and a good paint. O
Ozone machine for smells and deluded vinegar or bleach for mold.
 
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I received a boatload of good info in my thread here. Quick tl;dr

An O3 generator rotated through each room, Krud Kutter on walls/floors and stripping the ceilings of popcorn took out 90% of our problem. I believe priming will cover most of that remaining 10%, but I'll be washing and ozoning some more on the next trip anyway.

A couple of tips on shellac:

1. Get non-water-based shellac. In my case the Zinsser BIN primer comes in a water-based shellac which isn't nearly as effective as their good stuff (which is made from bug crap resin. The more you know...)
1a. If you get good shellac, don't spray it in a Graco sprayer if you were so inclined. Graco told me it will destroy the pump. Whether it will or not, they won't touch it if you use shellac primer. I wouldn't spray the stuff anyway after careful thought, as my lungs have no warranty whatsoever.

Best of luck to you. Looking forward to good news.
 
junkytj said:
In my experience,kilz did the job, but it took several coats. I was dealing with nicotine that had been smoked into the walls though. I just needed a barrier that kept the moisture from getting in and pulling through the paint.
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Fucking cigarettte is the worst.:barf::barf::barf::barf:.. I am supprised that you didn't re-sheetrock it....:smokin:
 
We deal with all sorts of shit on the walls with our rentals. When its bad we usually wash the walls with TSP, run the ozone machine, kilz then paint.
 
I’ve had to deal with smoke damage before. I tried many products and nothing was really working, then I tried Westley’s tire cleaner, probably most tire cleaner will work, it has a mild acid in it that’s why you choke if you inhale any mist.
The Westlely’s worked, the smoke literally melts off. Aluminum siding cleaner is a very similar product and some of that also works.
I use the tire cleaner for cleaning a lot of stuff.
TSB may also work.
 
Kilz or Zinsser should work. I'd use oil base for better cover up.

Had to use Zinsser 123 on roof trusses, to block mold. Solved the problem.
 
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