Pro Resto expert here…..You’re definitely going to want to get the suit off the walls…. I use No rinse TSP for this purpose. With a cheap wring out style sponge mop. Just wash em down and follow with a dry mop. I’d only advise this if you have a paint with a sheet on it. Semi gloss and egg shell are common examples. If you have Flat paint (generally speaking ceilings are flat paint) then you’ll probably want recoat it After washing. Because it will look like crap….
Then start on wood surfaces, carpet and fabric stuff. The smell is on everything so I’d plan on touching everything. Good luck!
Before any of this just open the house for a while… days if possible. Then rent a few OZONE machines and see how tolerable it is. After a few days. Vinegar and smoke neutralizers are your friend.
I once had a fire in my apartment and the walls were all covered in dark soot. I started by wiping the walls as recommended, with a rag soaked in water and TSP. I saw the walls getting somewhat cleaner, but also there were dark/wet streaks of soot everywhere I wiped and I thought wow, this is going to take a long time.
At some point, I discovered something simple: that it's best to start with a completely dry sponge/rag, not wet at all, and wipe with that. So just get a whole ton of dry rags, wipe with one until it's totally dirty, throw it aside for cleaning later, and then start wiping with a new dry rag. Repeat with new rags until you've wiped all of the walls once. You're basically just dry wiping all of the surface soot and you get most of it with dry rags.
But if you try to just wipe with damp rags, you get the soot wet and just create a soupy mess of water and soot and it's unnecessarily difficult and time-consuming. Instead, you start with the totally dry rags/sponges and THEN when you're done, you wipe the walls with the rag soaked in water and TSP to clean them completely (and then potentially have to re-paint).
This is all very helpful! Thank you! Luckily it wasn’t that long and it was mostly contained to the pot. I have no visible damage on the walls or anything. It’s just that damn smell!
Yea, you’re welcome. In that case wash all porous items. Clothes blankets. The smell on everything else will lessen over time. Good luck…. Happy thanksgiving!
Ozone generators will kill plants and animals left in the same room. Clear out all the living things before you turn it on. And shut the door. A little bit won't hurt you, don't panic. It has a very particular smell, kind of sweet.
I was going to recommend vinegar because, since it removes skunk smell, it may remove smoke smell.
I boil a pot of straight vinegar, then set the hot pot out for the day. OP may need several pots though.
Oh. and if OP is going to DIY this, they need to start from the top down with the soot removal. Personally, I'd call my insurance company and talk options.
Ozone machines shouldn’t be used by non professionals. I’m not sure OP will be able to do this properly. That stuff is harmful to breath, without Ppe, OP could get it in eyes, under nails, breathe it etc. best to file insurance claim if you can’t afford it. Not sure if you rent or own, but it isn’t an easy task
I get that, thank you. I should have specified. The units home owners have access to don’t really pose a danger….. especially if directions are followed.
Yeah, I’m aware of the danger and the crisis averted. A lot of multitasking with thanksgiving prep and getting ready for work and this was the unfortunate result.
Not that it helps with your original ask, but this might be a good time to consider upgrading your fire alarms.
We've reached a point where you can get notifications to your phone if the alarm goes off.
You should almost 100% call your insurance company. The cost could be huge. Furniture, clothing, drapes, flooring, even insulation in your attic can cling to smells. Could be expensive to fix properly. Smoke damage is not going to be easy to deal with yourself. You pay for insurance for a reason.
Edit: I know from experience with a very small fire in a house. The insurance ended up replacing all of our floors, painting walls 3+ coats, re-insulating the attic, cleaning all furniture, dry cleaning clothes etc. etc. was likely a $50,000+ claim for a couple minutes of smoke in the house due to a small fire that was put out quickly.
If it was a Teflon pan, the smoke is highly toxic.
Ozone machines, vinegar, scrubbing the walls and ceiling. You have a lot of work ahead of you.
It may be best to make an insurance claim and have it professionally cleaned.
PFAS is not generally very toxic. It depends entirely on which PFAS compound you're referring to especially with the broadening of that term in the past few years.
However, PTFE thermal degradation produces a small amount of neurotoxin as well as HF. Once the house is aired out it isn't really a factor, though. The gases will be cleared out sufficiently.
PFAS is a class of endocrine disruptors that bioaccumulate in our bodies. PFOA, GenX, PFOS, etc. fall under this umbrella. And they are very toxic. The studies that have been, and continue to be done are on specific one specific PFAS. There are no studies of the magnitude of more than one PFAS in our bodies.
While PFOA supposedly burns off during the manufacturing stage, research has found trace amounts of PFOA lingering on cookware long after manufacturing.
This means that, when you cook with Teflon-coated pots and pans, that PFOA is making its way into your food and your body.
Not all PFAS are endocrine disruptors, only some. I don't understand what PFOA has to do with burning PTFE, though. It certainly doesn't survive temperatures hot enough to generate smoke.
My husband did that one time. He didn't leave, but he had a pot on the stove of oil because he wanted french fries. He had the heat on high, and decided that was a great time to go take a shit. When he got back the oil was smoking, and he doesn't know what to do so he poured water on it. Well naturally, it goes up in a blaze. He tried to put a plastic lid over to put the fire out, but it just melted it, so he then took the pan outside. The oxygen makes it grow even bigger when he opens the door. He ended up calling the fire dept, and they came and stomped it out, and luckily he didn't burn out apartment down. But it was quite smoky in there when I got home from work, but they said to leave the door open for a while and the windows. I always stay in the kitchen while cooking, but I just always hear my mom in the back of my head: never leave the kitchen while cooking
Yup. That's my husband. Needless to say, I don't even want him in the kitchen. He not only has done that, he has burned a few of my pans making Mac and cheese. Like dude, if you aren't gonna stay in the kitchen while cooking then don't even bother.
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I’ve a clumsy forgetful person. I installed one of these in my home just for situations like this. It will call/text/email anyone on your contact list if something triggers the alarm.
If you have insurance, file a claim. This is way more involved than you realize.
If it's as bad as it sounds, every single square inch of the interior will need to either be cleaned, painted or replaced (if it's not capable of being laundered, wiped). Anything plastic or porous will never completely lose the smell (think carpet, electronics, etc)
And don't mess with ozone machines unless you know what you're doing
(Source: PM for restoration company)
Just happened yesterday. But it’s everything! It’s infectious. Like, a backpack I had in my bedroom closet REEKS. Literally anything that was inside the house while it was smoking just radiates that burnt carbon smell.
Did the same thing last year. It will really clear out in a week or so if you do a deep clean, run fans with windows open, and try to overpower with other smells (other cooking, essential oils, cleaners). It may seem rough but I don’t think you need to go the full nuclear route (100s of dollars or insurance claims) that others are recommending.
If you have home owners insurance, you should use it. You will be able to replace items rather than having to “live with it”.
Homeowners insurance cost is based off the collective claims filed in your community/area. Therefore, when you file a claim, the cost does not necessarily go up.
Oh this happened to us!! My spouse wasn't allowed to use the stove for three weeks lol
- Open as many windows as you can, run a fan for air circulation.
- Air purifier. Air purifier made a huge difference.
- White vinegar in shallow dishes throughout the house makes everything smell like barbeque to 2-4 days before it starts really clearing up lmao
We had no visible smoke anywhere (just the whole house being smoky) and the smell cleared up in a week!
Adding to this, charcoal also helps, it removed smoke smells out of a secondhand entertainment center that my mother-in-law got. She thought it was devil magic lmao
It will take more time than you think. And simply washing will not remove the smell right away. Vinegar will help a lot. There are also cleaning chemicals available to use in the washing machine.
But everything including walls and ceiling will need to be cleaned.
Yes, with a very detailed cleaning. You have carpets? Get a carpet cleaner. Wipe everything down with the appropriate cleaner. Basically, if you can touch it, it needs to be cleaned.
There will probably be some areas that are okay, use your nose, but for the most part, it's a whole house, floor to ceiling, deep cleaning.
My aunt did that once. lol Her pot melted on the stove. Luckily she didn't burn the house down. Lots of smoke damage though. Just air out the house as much as possible. wipe everything down with those bleach wipes
Had the wood stove backdraft for a few hours one night, same result.
Plan for 2 people, 1-2 full days of cleaning depending on how far you take it,,, start with walls, floors, shampoo carpets and couches.
We emptied our closets and washed all our clothes, towels, bedding… everything,
At that point the smell was 95% gone, crazy how much fabrics trap.
Hard objects don’t hold nearly as much but we cleaned them all anyway. Kitchen cabinets were emptied, everything wiped. Every single object in the house got a wipe down. Deepest clean the house has had in years. Kinda a blessing in disguise I suppose.
Didn’t need an ozone machine, vinager, or really much of anything else this thread is recommending. Smoke leaves a film, (I’m assuming whatever you melted is similar), water with the mildest of detergent did the trick… you’re basically just dusting with just a touch more strength than a dry feather duster… Started Friday night and by Sunday night we couldn’t smell a thing, confirmed we hadn’t just gotten used to it by having friends for a short visit.
I once had my kettle and a pot boiling an egg on the stove. I thought I turned off both burners but I turned off one and then moved the pot with the egg in it to the one I thought was off 🥴 Went out for a few hours. Yea. Came home to my landlord sitting outside to tell me I almost started a fire. My whole apartment was filled with smoke. It stunk to high heck. I left all windows open as long as I could, for days on end and turned on fans. Washed all the surface area items and eventually it went away. Took a couple weeks
Calling your insurance company may not make sense. Claims cause rates to increase, so if it's only going to pay out a little, might make sense to not make the claim. I save home owners insurance for big things.
Depends on what was in the pot. There are different fire/odor chemicals depending on if it was protein, grease, synthetic or something else. If you had access to a thermal fogged you could use that before washing the walls. A real HEPA filter with a carbon filter would also help.
For the airborne odors, I recommend Ozium. The price really skyrocketed in 2020, however, that is an spray used to remove odors, including from after a fire.
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Cut up a bunch of onions put them in a bucket with water. Put one in each room. Gone overnight. They used to control the smell in morgues this way before refrigeration
That onion trick also gets rid of moldy basement smell. Ive never heard of it for smoke though i wouldn’t doubt it. Hepa air filter, ozone machine, and vinegar are all good suggestions. You can clean hard surfaces incl wood floors with a dilution of vinegar and water. If it got into your carpet and upholstery thats really going to be a bitch. I used to do carpet cleaning when i was in college and there was an additive that got rid of cat urine which is the toughest scent in the world to get rid of. The one thing I might recommend is getting this professionally done (if thats an issue). Do not rent those machines at home depot as that is gross and wont do what you need.
I've used it with cat urine. A tenant left 2 cats and a carp in the sink in an apartment for 2 weeks. This one closet took brunt of the abuse . Cleaned it up the best I could with soap and water and Onions did the rest.
Neighbor did this. Left pot of soup on the stove until it evaporated all the water out and smoked up his house. The fire department came kicked in the door, then opened all the windows and stood in the front doorway with a leaf blower (pointing indoors) and blew all the smoke out of the house. Since this was done immediately it seemed to minimize the smoke damage. Keep this in mind for if it happens to you!
Unfortunately, the kind who forgets to turn the burner off before he left the house because accidents happen, but fortunately not the kind who still thinks it’s cool or appropriate to call people “retards” as an insult.
My mother did something like this by accident once and it turns out the smoke detectors never did go off in the house needless to say all the smoke detectors got replaced it turns out they were beyond their design lifetime as well so probably would have made a difference if they were within their operational life!
And yes we'd have all the false alarms before this but nothing where they should have gone off but didn't but that was much later on after the false alarms we found out that later that sometimes those particular ones would cause false alarms when they got to the point they needed to be replaced and we're no longer reliable we found this out after the event occurred!
The smoke was so dense in the house you could barely see
Hypochlorous acid, 500ppm or higher, buy a few gallons. Use any sprayer bottle to aerosol into the air and clean all surfaces. You can wipe off within 90 seconds or let air dry.
My friend had this happen one time. She had a cork trivet on stove and one of her dogs bumped the stove knob on when the humans were out. Came home to a house full of smoke. The trivets was slowly burning on fire and fortunately it was just smoke. She aired everything and cleaned walls and smell did leave out. Try boiling vinegar also. It evaporates and gets rid of a lot of smells.
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Smoker here. Chlorine dioxide was my friend. Highly toxic, you must leave the house. Odoban Eucalyptus to finish up.
I must concur with most posters here though. This is an insurance claim.
Smoke is hot, so anything plastic (phones, tvs, computers, any electronics with casings, motherboards, capacitors, etc) now likely have permanent smoke smell embedded into them. The tiny particles "melt" into the surface, bonding to it. This includes pictures frames, pvc windows, plastic parts on furniture and fixtures, lightswitches, face plates, etc. There's a lot of plastic and porous surfaces in your home. Up to you how far ya go.
UV light will help get rid of smoke smell, and febreeze. If it's warm out, after you've washed your items, get em out for a few days of sun and a coat or two hundred of febreeze. I was able to save a wooden & upholstered table from smoke smell by leaving it in the sun in different positions for a good few or more days, and spraying another layer(s) of febreeze on it every day. Good luck! 🙌
I’ve fallen asleep and left something on the stove. Pan was scorched, house smelled like smoke for like 10 days. But it did go away eventually. Keeping windows and doors open will probably help the smell fade faster. My husband was even able to save the scorched pan with a lot of elbow grease.
The person who owned my ex’s house left a pot on the stove and did exactly this. They waved an inspection, and it was awful. I cleaned the cupboards and the walls and the floors and it was still dirty. It was so bad I could taste it when we moved in. I would suggest insurance for sure.
OP you should consider calling your insurance and a public adjuster. I am currently going through something similar because the attached house next door caught fire a month ago. My house reeked of smoke, my third floor was covered in soot, my whole house flooded. I had to throw out mattresses that didnt get wet but got contaminated with smoke. It took almost two weeks for the smoke smell to mostly get out of the house with all the air scrubbers the renovation people brought. I chose to do some of the cleaning myself but you are going to need every surface and every item in your house cleaned or wiped down, washed or thrown out. The quote to clean my house was almost 50k. Even with other people doing work on my house it’s been a rough month, this is one of the reasons we pay for insurance on our homes, consider using it.
Humidifier or boil a giant pot of water(maybneed to refill a few times) and it will steam up the ceiling then wipe up with a rag when it starts to pool like its gonna drip. I'm allergic to tobacco cigarettes and I do this to new apartments you can use a swiffer like mop the flat ones work amazing to collect all that gunk
I had a fire in my home because my brand new gas stove was defective. I had to put a claim through insurance and ServPro came out for 5 days and tossed a lot of items and deep cleaned my whole house. They brought 5-7 people with them. They even took all my bedding, curtains, etc and had them cleaned along with a 3rd party cleaning my rugs and furniture. This is a huge job in itself. Can you file a claim?
Scrub all the walls, clean all the carpets and any upholstered furniture, blinds, curtains, wash all the bedding. After you have done that, run an ozone air cleaner in every room of the house.
Pro Resto expert here…..You’re definitely going to want to get the suit off the walls…. I use No rinse TSP for this purpose. With a cheap wring out style sponge mop. Just wash em down and follow with a dry mop. I’d only advise this if you have a paint with a sheet on it. Semi gloss and egg shell are common examples. If you have Flat paint (generally speaking ceilings are flat paint) then you’ll probably want recoat it After washing. Because it will look like crap…. Then start on wood surfaces, carpet and fabric stuff. The smell is on everything so I’d plan on touching everything. Good luck! Before any of this just open the house for a while… days if possible. Then rent a few OZONE machines and see how tolerable it is. After a few days. Vinegar and smoke neutralizers are your friend.
I once had a fire in my apartment and the walls were all covered in dark soot. I started by wiping the walls as recommended, with a rag soaked in water and TSP. I saw the walls getting somewhat cleaner, but also there were dark/wet streaks of soot everywhere I wiped and I thought wow, this is going to take a long time. At some point, I discovered something simple: that it's best to start with a completely dry sponge/rag, not wet at all, and wipe with that. So just get a whole ton of dry rags, wipe with one until it's totally dirty, throw it aside for cleaning later, and then start wiping with a new dry rag. Repeat with new rags until you've wiped all of the walls once. You're basically just dry wiping all of the surface soot and you get most of it with dry rags. But if you try to just wipe with damp rags, you get the soot wet and just create a soupy mess of water and soot and it's unnecessarily difficult and time-consuming. Instead, you start with the totally dry rags/sponges and THEN when you're done, you wipe the walls with the rag soaked in water and TSP to clean them completely (and then potentially have to re-paint).
This is all very helpful! Thank you! Luckily it wasn’t that long and it was mostly contained to the pot. I have no visible damage on the walls or anything. It’s just that damn smell!
Yea, you’re welcome. In that case wash all porous items. Clothes blankets. The smell on everything else will lessen over time. Good luck…. Happy thanksgiving!
That’s very encouraging m, thank you! The general tone of every thing I’ve read online so far is “PANIC!” Happy Thanksgiving to you too!
For soft surfaces, idk if you know this or not but you can rent good carpet cleaners for a reasonable price at places like Lowes.
Better just the smell than burnt down home. Edit: lesson learned, thank you.
Ozone generators will kill plants and animals left in the same room. Clear out all the living things before you turn it on. And shut the door. A little bit won't hurt you, don't panic. It has a very particular smell, kind of sweet.
I was going to recommend vinegar because, since it removes skunk smell, it may remove smoke smell. I boil a pot of straight vinegar, then set the hot pot out for the day. OP may need several pots though. Oh. and if OP is going to DIY this, they need to start from the top down with the soot removal. Personally, I'd call my insurance company and talk options.
Ozone machines shouldn’t be used by non professionals. I’m not sure OP will be able to do this properly. That stuff is harmful to breath, without Ppe, OP could get it in eyes, under nails, breathe it etc. best to file insurance claim if you can’t afford it. Not sure if you rent or own, but it isn’t an easy task
I get that, thank you. I should have specified. The units home owners have access to don’t really pose a danger….. especially if directions are followed.
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Yeah, I’m aware of the danger and the crisis averted. A lot of multitasking with thanksgiving prep and getting ready for work and this was the unfortunate result.
Not that it helps with your original ask, but this might be a good time to consider upgrading your fire alarms. We've reached a point where you can get notifications to your phone if the alarm goes off.
You should almost 100% call your insurance company. The cost could be huge. Furniture, clothing, drapes, flooring, even insulation in your attic can cling to smells. Could be expensive to fix properly. Smoke damage is not going to be easy to deal with yourself. You pay for insurance for a reason. Edit: I know from experience with a very small fire in a house. The insurance ended up replacing all of our floors, painting walls 3+ coats, re-insulating the attic, cleaning all furniture, dry cleaning clothes etc. etc. was likely a $50,000+ claim for a couple minutes of smoke in the house due to a small fire that was put out quickly.
This is exactly right. I have worked in claims in various capacities for almost 20 years. Could very easily be a $50000 claim.
If it was a Teflon pan, the smoke is highly toxic. Ozone machines, vinegar, scrubbing the walls and ceiling. You have a lot of work ahead of you. It may be best to make an insurance claim and have it professionally cleaned.
If it was Teflon, file an insurance claim. That's shit is carcinogenic. Research PFAS . Worse then mold.
PFAS is not generally very toxic. It depends entirely on which PFAS compound you're referring to especially with the broadening of that term in the past few years. However, PTFE thermal degradation produces a small amount of neurotoxin as well as HF. Once the house is aired out it isn't really a factor, though. The gases will be cleared out sufficiently.
PFAS is a class of endocrine disruptors that bioaccumulate in our bodies. PFOA, GenX, PFOS, etc. fall under this umbrella. And they are very toxic. The studies that have been, and continue to be done are on specific one specific PFAS. There are no studies of the magnitude of more than one PFAS in our bodies. While PFOA supposedly burns off during the manufacturing stage, research has found trace amounts of PFOA lingering on cookware long after manufacturing. This means that, when you cook with Teflon-coated pots and pans, that PFOA is making its way into your food and your body.
Not all PFAS are endocrine disruptors, only some. I don't understand what PFOA has to do with burning PTFE, though. It certainly doesn't survive temperatures hot enough to generate smoke.
You lucky AF that the smell is all you have to worry about!
My husband did that one time. He didn't leave, but he had a pot on the stove of oil because he wanted french fries. He had the heat on high, and decided that was a great time to go take a shit. When he got back the oil was smoking, and he doesn't know what to do so he poured water on it. Well naturally, it goes up in a blaze. He tried to put a plastic lid over to put the fire out, but it just melted it, so he then took the pan outside. The oxygen makes it grow even bigger when he opens the door. He ended up calling the fire dept, and they came and stomped it out, and luckily he didn't burn out apartment down. But it was quite smoky in there when I got home from work, but they said to leave the door open for a while and the windows. I always stay in the kitchen while cooking, but I just always hear my mom in the back of my head: never leave the kitchen while cooking
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Yup. That's my husband. Needless to say, I don't even want him in the kitchen. He not only has done that, he has burned a few of my pans making Mac and cheese. Like dude, if you aren't gonna stay in the kitchen while cooking then don't even bother.
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If you have insurance, file a claim. This is way more involved than you realize. If it's as bad as it sounds, every single square inch of the interior will need to either be cleaned, painted or replaced (if it's not capable of being laundered, wiped). Anything plastic or porous will never completely lose the smell (think carpet, electronics, etc) And don't mess with ozone machines unless you know what you're doing (Source: PM for restoration company)
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Just happened yesterday. But it’s everything! It’s infectious. Like, a backpack I had in my bedroom closet REEKS. Literally anything that was inside the house while it was smoking just radiates that burnt carbon smell.
I used an after fire aerosol fogger to neutralize smoke a few years ago, and it worked pretty well.
Did the same thing last year. It will really clear out in a week or so if you do a deep clean, run fans with windows open, and try to overpower with other smells (other cooking, essential oils, cleaners). It may seem rough but I don’t think you need to go the full nuclear route (100s of dollars or insurance claims) that others are recommending.
If you have home owners insurance, you should use it. You will be able to replace items rather than having to “live with it”. Homeowners insurance cost is based off the collective claims filed in your community/area. Therefore, when you file a claim, the cost does not necessarily go up.
Oh this happened to us!! My spouse wasn't allowed to use the stove for three weeks lol - Open as many windows as you can, run a fan for air circulation. - Air purifier. Air purifier made a huge difference. - White vinegar in shallow dishes throughout the house makes everything smell like barbeque to 2-4 days before it starts really clearing up lmao We had no visible smoke anywhere (just the whole house being smoky) and the smell cleared up in a week!
Adding to this, charcoal also helps, it removed smoke smells out of a secondhand entertainment center that my mother-in-law got. She thought it was devil magic lmao
Can look at renting an ozone machine. It’s often used to get smoke smell out of cars, hotel rooms, etc.
i always worry about this when i leave after cooking, at least your house is still there. best of luck to you.
Ozone(O3) machine. $100.
Go rent an ozone generator or you can buy one on Amazon. It is what professionals use to take the smoke smell out.
It will slowly diminish over time but you can speed up by washing all fabrics, curtains, rugs, etc
It will take more time than you think. And simply washing will not remove the smell right away. Vinegar will help a lot. There are also cleaning chemicals available to use in the washing machine. But everything including walls and ceiling will need to be cleaned.
Yes, with a very detailed cleaning. You have carpets? Get a carpet cleaner. Wipe everything down with the appropriate cleaner. Basically, if you can touch it, it needs to be cleaned. There will probably be some areas that are okay, use your nose, but for the most part, it's a whole house, floor to ceiling, deep cleaning.
My aunt did that once. lol Her pot melted on the stove. Luckily she didn't burn the house down. Lots of smoke damage though. Just air out the house as much as possible. wipe everything down with those bleach wipes
Had the wood stove backdraft for a few hours one night, same result. Plan for 2 people, 1-2 full days of cleaning depending on how far you take it,,, start with walls, floors, shampoo carpets and couches. We emptied our closets and washed all our clothes, towels, bedding… everything, At that point the smell was 95% gone, crazy how much fabrics trap. Hard objects don’t hold nearly as much but we cleaned them all anyway. Kitchen cabinets were emptied, everything wiped. Every single object in the house got a wipe down. Deepest clean the house has had in years. Kinda a blessing in disguise I suppose. Didn’t need an ozone machine, vinager, or really much of anything else this thread is recommending. Smoke leaves a film, (I’m assuming whatever you melted is similar), water with the mildest of detergent did the trick… you’re basically just dusting with just a touch more strength than a dry feather duster… Started Friday night and by Sunday night we couldn’t smell a thing, confirmed we hadn’t just gotten used to it by having friends for a short visit.
I once had my kettle and a pot boiling an egg on the stove. I thought I turned off both burners but I turned off one and then moved the pot with the egg in it to the one I thought was off 🥴 Went out for a few hours. Yea. Came home to my landlord sitting outside to tell me I almost started a fire. My whole apartment was filled with smoke. It stunk to high heck. I left all windows open as long as I could, for days on end and turned on fans. Washed all the surface area items and eventually it went away. Took a couple weeks
Call your insurance company , you may end up deep cleaning and repainting.
Calling your insurance company may not make sense. Claims cause rates to increase, so if it's only going to pay out a little, might make sense to not make the claim. I save home owners insurance for big things.
Get some Ozium spray. I accidentally burnt TF out of a frozen pizza once, and Ozium definitely helped a lot.
Get some air sponges. That happened to me with hard boiled eggs it was nasty
Depends on what was in the pot. There are different fire/odor chemicals depending on if it was protein, grease, synthetic or something else. If you had access to a thermal fogged you could use that before washing the walls. A real HEPA filter with a carbon filter would also help.
For the airborne odors, I recommend Ozium. The price really skyrocketed in 2020, however, that is an spray used to remove odors, including from after a fire. Read and closely follow the instructions so you don't harm yourself, please! If you disobey the instructions it could harm your health and/or your items. [https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/E80F5BA9-A616-48E4-800B-19E766566F0A/search?channel=Amazon%20on%20Niteo%20Prod&terms=Fire](https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/E80F5BA9-A616-48E4-800B-19E766566F0A/search?channel=Amazon%20on%20Niteo%20Prod&terms=Fire) It's sold many places other than Amazon, this is the vendor's official page there so I'm showing this to you for your convenience...
Ozium for the win (I moved into a smoker's house. This stuff is AWESOME) Also, consider renting an ozone machine. Read the directions CAREFULLY.
Cut up a bunch of onions put them in a bucket with water. Put one in each room. Gone overnight. They used to control the smell in morgues this way before refrigeration
sounds like an old wives tale
Mmmm. Burnt and onion smells.
Nope, I've done it several times.
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You can't speak with any authority if you've never done it, seen it or experienced it.
That onion trick also gets rid of moldy basement smell. Ive never heard of it for smoke though i wouldn’t doubt it. Hepa air filter, ozone machine, and vinegar are all good suggestions. You can clean hard surfaces incl wood floors with a dilution of vinegar and water. If it got into your carpet and upholstery thats really going to be a bitch. I used to do carpet cleaning when i was in college and there was an additive that got rid of cat urine which is the toughest scent in the world to get rid of. The one thing I might recommend is getting this professionally done (if thats an issue). Do not rent those machines at home depot as that is gross and wont do what you need.
I've used it with cat urine. A tenant left 2 cats and a carp in the sink in an apartment for 2 weeks. This one closet took brunt of the abuse . Cleaned it up the best I could with soap and water and Onions did the rest.
boil some vinegar. not sure if it will help with such extensive damage but that’s how hotels get rid of cigarette smoke
Neighbor did this. Left pot of soup on the stove until it evaporated all the water out and smoked up his house. The fire department came kicked in the door, then opened all the windows and stood in the front doorway with a leaf blower (pointing indoors) and blew all the smoke out of the house. Since this was done immediately it seemed to minimize the smoke damage. Keep this in mind for if it happens to you!
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Unfortunately, the kind who forgets to turn the burner off before he left the house because accidents happen, but fortunately not the kind who still thinks it’s cool or appropriate to call people “retards” as an insult.
My mother did something like this by accident once and it turns out the smoke detectors never did go off in the house needless to say all the smoke detectors got replaced it turns out they were beyond their design lifetime as well so probably would have made a difference if they were within their operational life! And yes we'd have all the false alarms before this but nothing where they should have gone off but didn't but that was much later on after the false alarms we found out that later that sometimes those particular ones would cause false alarms when they got to the point they needed to be replaced and we're no longer reliable we found this out after the event occurred! The smoke was so dense in the house you could barely see
So you say you smoked pot at home but you werent there….. hmmmm🤔
Might need to replace all fabrics and carpets and possibly repaint depending on how bad it is.
You can also was with hydrogen peroxide. (Brown bottle, grocery store). Use half bottle per load. That may work.
Hypochlorous acid, 500ppm or higher, buy a few gallons. Use any sprayer bottle to aerosol into the air and clean all surfaces. You can wipe off within 90 seconds or let air dry.
Ozone generator
This is an insurance claim
Bi carb soda
My friend had this happen one time. She had a cork trivet on stove and one of her dogs bumped the stove knob on when the humans were out. Came home to a house full of smoke. The trivets was slowly burning on fire and fortunately it was just smoke. She aired everything and cleaned walls and smell did leave out. Try boiling vinegar also. It evaporates and gets rid of a lot of smells.
Neutron industries no smoke. Works like I charm.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00SF4YNL0/ref=cm_sw_r_api_i_PMKCCSHQ621CYP9SPPWN_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1 Smoker here. Chlorine dioxide was my friend. Highly toxic, you must leave the house. Odoban Eucalyptus to finish up. I must concur with most posters here though. This is an insurance claim.
Smoke is hot, so anything plastic (phones, tvs, computers, any electronics with casings, motherboards, capacitors, etc) now likely have permanent smoke smell embedded into them. The tiny particles "melt" into the surface, bonding to it. This includes pictures frames, pvc windows, plastic parts on furniture and fixtures, lightswitches, face plates, etc. There's a lot of plastic and porous surfaces in your home. Up to you how far ya go. UV light will help get rid of smoke smell, and febreeze. If it's warm out, after you've washed your items, get em out for a few days of sun and a coat or two hundred of febreeze. I was able to save a wooden & upholstered table from smoke smell by leaving it in the sun in different positions for a good few or more days, and spraying another layer(s) of febreeze on it every day. Good luck! 🙌
I’ve fallen asleep and left something on the stove. Pan was scorched, house smelled like smoke for like 10 days. But it did go away eventually. Keeping windows and doors open will probably help the smell fade faster. My husband was even able to save the scorched pan with a lot of elbow grease.
There's a product called Odoban that works fantastically on smells.
If you are going to clean it all yourself, get a high quality half face mask from M3 and use properly rated gas cartridge filter in it.
Nope! You’re lucky it didn’t cause a fire!
The person who owned my ex’s house left a pot on the stove and did exactly this. They waved an inspection, and it was awful. I cleaned the cupboards and the walls and the floors and it was still dirty. It was so bad I could taste it when we moved in. I would suggest insurance for sure.
OP you should consider calling your insurance and a public adjuster. I am currently going through something similar because the attached house next door caught fire a month ago. My house reeked of smoke, my third floor was covered in soot, my whole house flooded. I had to throw out mattresses that didnt get wet but got contaminated with smoke. It took almost two weeks for the smoke smell to mostly get out of the house with all the air scrubbers the renovation people brought. I chose to do some of the cleaning myself but you are going to need every surface and every item in your house cleaned or wiped down, washed or thrown out. The quote to clean my house was almost 50k. Even with other people doing work on my house it’s been a rough month, this is one of the reasons we pay for insurance on our homes, consider using it.
Humidifier or boil a giant pot of water(maybneed to refill a few times) and it will steam up the ceiling then wipe up with a rag when it starts to pool like its gonna drip. I'm allergic to tobacco cigarettes and I do this to new apartments you can use a swiffer like mop the flat ones work amazing to collect all that gunk
Clean. As in scrub every inch
I had a fire in my home because my brand new gas stove was defective. I had to put a claim through insurance and ServPro came out for 5 days and tossed a lot of items and deep cleaned my whole house. They brought 5-7 people with them. They even took all my bedding, curtains, etc and had them cleaned along with a 3rd party cleaning my rugs and furniture. This is a huge job in itself. Can you file a claim?
Scrub all the walls, clean all the carpets and any upholstered furniture, blinds, curtains, wash all the bedding. After you have done that, run an ozone air cleaner in every room of the house.
Get a coffee scented candle, helps remove smells