When you started shopping around for a new home in the Greater Toronto Area, one thing you might have wished to avoid was buying a house from a smoker. However, when you talked to your realtor, made an appointment to see this particular house, you fell in love with it the moment you saw pictures.
Pulling up to the driveway, getting out of the car and approaching the front door you felt like you were coming home. Then you stepped inside and saw the gorgeous hardwood floors in the hallway, the plush white carpeting in the living room, and the amazing windows that maximized sunlight and warmth.
You also noticed the familiar aroma that signified a smoker lived here. You didn’t let that stop you from making an offer and now that you’ve purchased this home and are getting ready to move in, you need to do some work to get rid of that smoke smell.
Depending on how long a person lives in the house and smokes, it can affect the walls. Hopefully your house isn’t damaged to the point where you have to replace all of the walls in the entire house.
Assuming that’s not the case, you may still smell smoke lingering. This could be trapped in the carpeting. Before you tear up that carpeting, especially if it is relatively new, consider hiring a professional carpet cleaning service.
A company like Royal Interior Cleaning can come out to the house with their powerful equipment and many years of experience and completely remove the lingering smell of smoke from all of the carpeting throughout the house.
That will allow you the comfort of knowing you’re about to move into a home without having to get used to the residual aftereffects of a smoker having lived there before you.
You’ll also realize that those carpets are in great shape and will last you for many, many years.
