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Location: Kansas | Ok so I went to a garage sale yesterday and picked up a really nice couch and recliner for under $50 LOL....bad thing is.....they absolutely reek of smoke, like makes me gag with how strong the smell is. I have them sitting in the shop outside, but is there anyways I can somehow clean it up to get rid of the smell??
I'm going to use one of those hand held carpet cleaners tonight, and try the vinegar, peroxide and dish soap mix because it does have a few dirty spots on it. |
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | I bought a futon from smokers a number of years ago and no amount of washing or spraying has ever gotten rid of it all....i finally bought a zip up cover for the matress and that masked it the best....getting it wet is sometimes worse..kinda like a wet dog..lol......good luck......m....... |
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Location: Kansas | mruggles - 2015-05-12 1:53 PM I bought a futon from smokers a number of years ago and no amount of washing or spraying has ever gotten rid of it all....i finally bought a zip up cover for the matress and that masked it the best....getting it wet is sometimes worse..kinda like a wet dog..lol......good luck......m.......
darn it....I thought I got a good deal since it's actually one of those nice brown big comfortable couches with recliners :( poop, I'll see what I can do. |
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  Shipwrecked and Flat Out Zapped
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | Meh, burn it!! You're just going to have to take the financial loss.....kind of like I just had to do after paying $2.99 to watch 50 to 1 earlier today. Might as well have thrown that money out the window while driving down the road lol. |
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| My MIL gave us a really nice couch, loveseat, and recliner. She smokes. We've had them for 5 years or so. You can still get stench out them if you plop on them hard enough.
Febreeze on a regular basis helped. |
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Location: Sperry, OK | Go to Home Depot, or whatever you have in your town. Buy some "Odoban". It works miracles! |
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | ACEINTHEHOLE - 2015-05-12 2:09 PM Go to Home Depot, or whatever you have in your town. Buy some "Odoban". It works miracles!
....buttttt, burning stuff is sooooo much fun! |
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Location: Kansas | ACEINTHEHOLE - 2015-05-12 2:09 PM
Go to Home Depot, or whatever you have in your town. Buy some "Odoban". It works miracles!
Is it a spray?
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Tough Patooty
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Location: Sperry, OK | LRQHS - 2015-05-12 2:11 PM ACEINTHEHOLE - 2015-05-12 2:09 PM Go to Home Depot, or whatever you have in your town. Buy some "Odoban". It works miracles! ....buttttt, burning stuff is sooooo much fun!
LOL.. this is true!
Also wanted to say to the OP.. any parts of the cushions you can remove, like covers, or whatever. Put them in the washer and add a good "gulp" of odoban to the washer too. |
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Tough Patooty
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Location: Sperry, OK | hoofs_in_motion - 2015-05-12 2:16 PM ACEINTHEHOLE - 2015-05-12 2:09 PM Go to Home Depot, or whatever you have in your town. Buy some "Odoban". It works miracles! Is it a spray?
Edited by ACEINTHEHOLE 2015-05-12 2:17 PM
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | I saw a homemade blow torch on CL for only $45.....you could blow torch that sucker.....now, wouldn't that be a whole lot more fun?? |
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Location: Kansas | LRQHS - 2015-05-12 2:17 PM I saw a homemade blow torch on CL for only $45.....you could blow torch that sucker.....now, wouldn't that be a whole lot more fun??
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | I got one that came from a smoker about 5 years ago, and I soaked it with febreeze like everyday for a week and fixed the smoke smell,,  |
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Location: Oklahoma | Southtxponygirl - 2015-05-12 2:34 PM
I got one that came from a smoker about 5 years ago, and I soaked it with febreeze like everyday for a week and fixed the smoke smell,,
This ^^^ If you use enough Frebreze on it, it will eventually get all the smoke smell out. |
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A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | dianeguinn - 2015-05-12 2:35 PM Southtxponygirl - 2015-05-12 2:34 PM I got one that came from a smoker about 5 years ago, and I soaked it with febreeze like everyday for a week and fixed the smoke smell,, This ^^^ If you use enough Frebreze on it, it will eventually get all the smoke smell out.
LOL, I went threw more then a few bottles too.  |
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Miss Laundry Misshap
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| Southtxponygirl - 2015-05-12 2:46 PM dianeguinn - 2015-05-12 2:35 PM Southtxponygirl - 2015-05-12 2:34 PM I got one that came from a smoker about 5 years ago, and I soaked it with febreeze like everyday for a week and fixed the smoke smell,, This ^^^ If you use enough Frebreze on it, it will eventually get all the smoke smell out.
I bought a gallon of Febreeze and one of the regular bottles. I don't know many refills I went through! |
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A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Nateracer - 2015-05-12 2:49 PM Southtxponygirl - 2015-05-12 2:46 PM dianeguinn - 2015-05-12 2:35 PM Southtxponygirl - 2015-05-12 2:34 PM I got one that came from a smoker about 5 years ago, and I soaked it with febreeze like everyday for a week and fixed the smoke smell,, This ^^^ If you use enough Frebreze on it, it will eventually get all the smoke smell out.
LOL, nobody could sit on my couch for a week because I had it soak..  |
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Miss Laundry Misshap
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| Southtxponygirl - 2015-05-12 2:51 PM Nateracer - 2015-05-12 2:49 PM Southtxponygirl - 2015-05-12 2:46 PM dianeguinn - 2015-05-12 2:35 PM Southtxponygirl - 2015-05-12 2:34 PM I got one that came from a smoker about 5 years ago, and I soaked it with febreeze like everyday for a week and fixed the smoke smell,, This ^^^ If you use enough Frebreze on it, it will eventually get all the smoke smell out.
It was a good thing that it came with a couch, love seat, and chair. I had some where to sit while the other ones were soggy! LOL |
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| You also might try to talk to a carpet cleaning business that does clean ups from fires. They have some pretty strong stuff to remove smoke smell from everything. I wouldn't give up quite yet!!!
We bought a vehicle many years ago that was smoked in......was told to put a couple of bars of deodorant soap under the seat and it worked wonders.
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Location: southeast Texas | I got a lazyboy lift recliner, from a smoker. Nasty nasty. The lift recliner got a good covering of baking soda. After two months of sitting in an AC storage room, I vacuumed it, fabreezed it, you have to put your nose right on it to smell any thing. I took It to my moms and my brother didn't smell anything. And he has a bloodhound nose for odd smells.
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