jxp
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- Aug 13, 2023
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When I purchased my current house in the '90s I would catch a whiff of stale cigarettes every now and again for the first few years. I think it gets into the paint on the walls and maybe even the insulation.Ozone generators! That's how dealerships get cigarette smoke, BO, and other bad odors out of cars. Hotels do the same for hotel rooms, for example when someone smokes in a non-smoking room. They might charge a $250 "cleaning fee" but all they do is run an ozone generator in the room for five minutes, and they already owned the $70 ozone generator. Realtors use them, too. They're very effective.
My roommate bought a used car a few years ago from an individual and she negotiated the price down because the interior reeked of cigarette smoke. When she got it home she ran an ozone generator in it for a few minutes and voilà! The smell was gone. Not even I could detect anything and I have a sensitive sense of smell.