Home Smoke Damage From Cooking, Fireplaces, And Cigarettes

Not all home owners have to worry smoke accumulating in their homes and on their belongings unless they have a fire in the house or perhaps on nearby in their neighborhood. Smoke damage to a home on the outside as well as the inside because someone else had a fire is more common than you might imagine. If a homeowner does not have or use a fireplace, do much cooking, or have anyone in the home that smokes tobacco of any kind, will not have smoke damage accumulate from these things either. There home probably smells and look sweet and fresh.

People that do use a wood burning fireplace, do a lot of cooking, and have a smoker in the home can get a lot of smoke damage without ever having a house fire. When all of these things are done in a home, after a while it can cause a brown, grimy, build up on the walls, ceilings, and even the floors in a home if they are not shampooed or mopped regularly. A homeowner might mop tile or linoleum floors once a week or so, but carpets are not usually shampooed but once or twice a year. Smoke residue can cause the carpets to become nasty feeling to walk on and they can be discolored.

After a while, the walls and ceilings do take on a brown tinge that will also smell bad. Food odors from cooking and fireplace odors smell bad enough, but when you add the stale and stinky odor from cigarettes, cigar, or pipe smoke to the mix and your home will not smell sweet and fresh at all. This smoke grime and smell will leave a film on other belongings in the home that are not washed off regularly too like pictures on the walls, books, and ornamental items. The only way to get this greasy smoke film removed is to wash it off.

If you clean and wash items down regularly, it might not be so difficult to get things clean, but if you do not, over time the dust that settles in the house will mix with the greasy smoke grime and make a thicker, gooey mess. It will probably be necessary to use hot water and a grease removing cleaner to get the residue off of things. This can really be a big chore to take on if you have to wash down all of the ceilings and walls in the home. You could just paint again, but the residue must still be removed before you do that. Some people will just call in a cleaning crew to do a job this big and that might well be the fastest and easiest way.

Using exhaust fans while you are cooking will help with that. Banning a smoker to the outside will take care of the tobacco residue and smell. Making sure the flue in your fireplace is working properly can help reduce the smoke that can seep into home from that.