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TSP with help and then prime with BIN. It's nice to have a 2nd person wipe with a clean soapy wet rag. The TSP will have nicotine dripping all over. --70.44.xxx.xx

Wash using Spic-n-Span (granules in the box). Spic-n-Span doesn't need to be rinsed. Use a clean (new) sponge mop to mop down the walls starting at the top and work your way down. (Get the kind of mop head with the scrubbing strip for tough spots.) Nicotine will run down the walls. --73.40.xxx.xx

Either TSP or Spic and Span. Mix up and use a 2 gallon sprayer to spray the walls. Then use a dampened sponge mop dipped and squeezed in the same thing to mop the walls. If carpet in the home, leave down and pull as soon as walls done. Otherwise put down newsprint in a few layers to catch the runoff. --67.43.xxx.xxx

In a respirator with gloves! I use purple pinesol and magic erasers (lots of them). Everything will need washing, overhead lights, thermostats, etc. I remove any blinds, carpet, etc so that once the walls/cabinets are scrubbed there is nothing left holding the odor other than the ceiling. --107.77.xxx.xxx

Have fun! : ) --70.160.xxx.xxx

As Still learning said always wear gloves & a respirator when cleaning up after a heavy smoker. --71.174.xxx.xx

Gloves and a respirator are a good idea. The last smoke house, everyone who was in there cleaning up the nicotine got sick. --76.178.xx.xx

He has already ripped out the carpets because FLEAS...we are replacing with Allure. --50.82.xxx.xxx

"Awesome" cleaner from DollarTree and a sponge mop. --73.141.xxx.xx

TSP as others have said. When done, try buying an industrial-sized box of baking soda and pouring on the subfloor (before you put the Allure down)...let it sit overnight, then vacuum up...it will remove SOME of the odor in the subfloor. --99.92.xxx.xxx

Actually the subfloor is pretty good. We were surprised to find we had KILZed it before having the old carpet installed! --50.82.xxx.xxx

Wash with warm TSP with gloves and rinse 3 or 4 times. When you get no brown water walls are clean. My 20 year smoker took 7 washings. --99.23.xxx.x

Please look at my post entitled EASY NICOTINE FIX from July 2017. With the right primer you can paint right over the brown. No surface prep needed. Protect your health and use a good solvent respirator while painting. --174.252.xxx.xxx

After washing the cabinets, have to encapsulate them in good paint as well. Crazy, isn’t it? --67.43.xxx.xxx

McCulloch steam cleaner helps too. --66.30.xx.xx

Warm TSP mixture applied with paint roller and extension handle, gloves are good but I find the TSP dissolves the medical gloves after a couple hours, I rinse and then do the scented cleaner after taking a hour or more outside. --76.188.xxx.xxx

I have been using the Swiffer Wet Wipes on the swiffer mop. You could easily improvise a cloth towel with the TSP. I --68.118.xxx.xx

Note:This amount of work will make you keenly aware of tenants who "supposedly" only smoke outside --184.20.xxx.xx

Now when we do old smokers units,..we make sure all have protective gloves,.. --96.236.xxx.xxx

I am guessing the spic-n-span is to give a fresh sent? --73.120.xx.xxx

Following. I have successfully used water, yellow Mr Clean and few drops of blue dawn. Toll up towels to protect wood trim. Color is important. How's it goin what has worked? --99.203.xxx.xxx

Once after thoroughly cleaning and painting as described above, I still smelled a smoke odor when entering the house. The nose test revealed the smell was coming from the steel entry door, even though that had been washed numerous times. A coat of Rustoleum oil based paint took care of the problem. --173.188.xx.xxx

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Last time I had this in 2015 I had a painter address it - He used Powdered TSP mixed into Dollar Store "awesome" cleaner - lots of towels at floor edges - then a garden sprayer to apply to ceiling first / then walls at a three foot width per section, then a quality Libman Gator Mop sponge mopping to scrub each section - then a squeegee to pull it down to the towels - then mop up the syrupy gunk.....then he did 2 layers KILZ RESTORATION and painted all. We put new floor and baseboards after. Worked well. --67.174.xxx.xxx

BLUE GOLD is a liquid, water soluble, biodegradable concentrate used for cleaning and degreasing parts and equipment. This single solution, used in varying concentrations with water, can replace half a dozen or more other products, many of them hazardous and expensive, which must ordinarily be kept on hand in large amounts. BLUE GOLD is non-toxic, non-flammable and noncorrosive. It is rust inhibitive, stable in long-time storage, and is not damaged by freezing. As a safe alternative to caustics, acids and chemical solvents, BLUE GOLD is and extremely effective way to reduce accidents and injuries on the job site. And many insurance companies offer lower liability and accident rates to companies using safe, non-toxic cleaners like BLUE GOLD. BLUE GOLD IS: Non-toxic Non-flammable Non-corrosive Rust inhibitive 99.3% phosphate free Recyclable Meets OSHA requirements --174.104.xxx.xxx

Actually after washing the walls, I put an ozone machine in the unit for 24 hours. Nothing comes back after that treatment and it isn't expensive. The folks who do all my carpet do ozone as well and they charge about $20 more to use it. Works like a charm and doesn't require you to wash the inside of cabinets etc. --108.196.x.xxx

Not nicotine but smoke from fire. I put all my cut up rag pieces in a bucket of premixed dish soap and vinegar and water. Then as I use each rag it goes into a second bucket that holds dirty rags. That way I save time on mixing new cleaning water since the dirty rags never get put back in with the clean ones. --71.46.xxx.xxx

Dan --97.120.xx.x

I used Simple Green from a big box store. It not only cleans, doesn't need to be rinsed, but leaves a fresh minty smell. I used a standard floor sponge mop to apply. --173.170.xxx.xx

So far... --24.252.xxx.xxx

We found the answer. Hire a cleaning woman. $250 --50.82.xxx.xxx

If she will be doing as others have described here, then that is a great deal. --73.120.xx.xxx

If you're doing the labor yourself, how are you charging and do you get pushback? Regardless of whether your lease says "no smoking", this is clearly damage that needs to be repaired. --75.11.xx.xx

Hired the labor, so I'm charging him what she is charging me. My lease did not say no smoking, but it did say Renter was responsible for any damages caused by smoking, including extra cleaning, so we are good with charging him. --50.82.xxx.xxx

We use era laundry soap and apply with a flat floor applicator which can cover quite a bit of area at once for FAST cleaning -for light smoke odor and staining. Heavy smoke odor and staining we use (on scrub able paint) a cleaning product called fabulous when you spray it it turns into a foam that sticks evenly apply with mop and rinse with water. --74.79.xxx.xxx