I've got some smokers in the rental house and want to add air filtering. I've got a small hepa type filter with an ionizer in temporarily. But since I am dealing with mostly smoke, I wonder if one of the electrostatic types would work just as well if not better.
Suggestions? Google is failing me here.
Jeff
I never rent to smokers, smoke trashes a home.
Suggest they smoke outside, or their final damage deposit make have to be kept to do all the cleaning required. The $$ may help them to decide to smoke outside.
When ive had to get smokers apartments ready it was double to tripple the work, and it still smells like smoke if you have forced air.
Er..not knowing your circumstances, i.e. how hard it is to replace tenants...I'd respectfully suggest -- unless they have an iron-clad lease -- you give them notice and find non-smokers. Better than bending yourself into a pretzel to accommodate them!
HB
Suggestion??? Ya, no smoking in the house. That's my rule. Seems to work. One tenant even thanked me for helping him to quit because of the rule.
SMOKERS SUCK! :-)
TDD
Jeff Thies wrote in news:iej15a$4sa$ snipped-for-privacy@news.albasani.net:
Tell them they stink and have to move out.
This seems like a plan.
I'm aware of what it takes to rent to smokers and it is not a show stopper for me. In fact I anticipate the vast majority of my tenants will be at least light smokers. They will mostly step outside for a smoke (that is what smokers do), but not always.
This is, after all, a 14K house. I'm not going after the well heeled. Got a couple of gay waiters so far...
Jeff
I don't think there is a big enough or potent enough filter. My late Uncle, a Marine smoked so much that everything in his home was covered in a brown film nearly impossible to get off. I inherited several of his guns. I spent many an evening with solvents and oils getting all/most of it off. Smoking in a car can take a thousand to several thousand off it's value. You can hide the odor for a while but it comes back out and no one wants it.
A friend bought a house (all she could afford) and spent weeks washing walls, floors and windows. The windows had so much tar on them that they were almost opaque (walls had the same or more).
Yep. A friend used to buy used cars (rentals, mostly) at auction for a dealership. One thing he'd look for was signs of smoking (he smoked).
Good idea, but it should be in the lease with penalties if they still smoke in the house. Many smokers "insist" on their "right to smoke" and will do it anyway. Many cannot smell the smoke odors in the house because they are used to it and their nasal passages are "burnt out", they think if they smoke near an open door or window or fan the smoke it will disappear and no one will be able to detect it.
Walt Disney World has a no smoking policy in their hotels along with a several hundred dollar fine for "cleaning" the room if one smokes in it.
Gee a 14k house, what an outhouse with a view. Sounds like a great Hood. I left off the "neighbor" because I bet there is little of that.
Its easier than that, if they admit to smoking, the showing is over. Nobody will quit for your lease.
Well I had a rental for a good many years the lease stated clearly NO SMOKING. What a filthy dirty stinky disquisting habit.
I attracted tenants who didnt like smoke stink.
With about 25% still smoking:(
The non smokers were attracted to my rental home:(
You CANT wash the odor of smoke or urine out of walls floors etc, let alone air ducts and furnaces.
For soild surfaces first scrub well then prime with BIN or KILZ oil based primer, for floors coat with outdoor polyurethane, its smelly but wouldnt soften in moist weather. Have furnace guys clean and deodorize all ductwork.
Then paint everything normally toss all carpeting and pad.
incidently this is what the fire restoration people do after a home fire.
its costly and a ton of work but the only thing that truly works
Same at disneyland and same at my rentals. My wife can smell smoke in a building (even one open to the outside) two weeks later.
No, but they do sit on the porch. 83% of my renters smoke, but not in the house.
Lil Abner wrote in news:UBhPo.14769$ snipped-for-privacy@newsfe01.iad:
both car rentals and motel/hotel room rentals will charge you extra if you're a smoker,if they allow it at all.
soon smoking will be illegal. We all pay the price in higher health care costs
smoking around kids even in private homes is truly child abuse and should be proscuted as such
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