We are getting ready to put our house on the market. I moved our sofa so I could vacuum and discovered a dark space on the wall that basically was the size of the back of the sofa. We don’t smoke, but do burn candles occasionally.
We sure don’t want to paint the whole room. How do we get this dark stuff off the wall??

Hi Everyone, We recently purchased a house and discovered what I can only describe as gunk on all of the walls and ceilings. It’s odorless, black in color (sort of like soot), and incredibly sticky. It smudges around when we try to wipe the walls, and it takes so long to clean a small area. The house has poor ventilation in the kitchen so potentially related?

We are really struggling to clean one wall, let alone all of them plus the ceilings. We don’t have the time (nor the arm strength) to scrub all the surface area of the entire house. We want to paint the house but don’t want to layer it over the mystery gunk.

We have tried diluted dawn and diluted vinegar, using a microfiber cloth which doesn’t seem to be cutting it.

Does anyone have any cleaning recommendations? I’ve honestly considered looking into crime scene cleaning-level services because of how difficult it is to clean. Is there a paint stripping product/method that would that take care of it?

I’m clueless and desperate. Thanks in advance!!

I'm cleaning an apartment that had heavy incense use for about a month straight, and the bathroom smells very strongly of it, even after washing the floors, walls, sink/tub/toilet, and shower curtains. I ventilated the space all morning until it got too hot outside to bear it. There's no exhaust fan in the room unfortunately, and I'm not in a position to paint at the moment. The only things I can think of that might still be holding the smell are a few towels or the popcorn ceiling. I don't think it's the towels, though, because they were washed weekly, and I couldn't detect the smell lingering on them. (I can wash them tomorrow if y'all think I should, though) I currently have an ionizer running in the apartment and have sprayed odor eliminating lysol, but the smell keeps coming back. any advice would be much appreciated.

Hi there, I'm looking for advice on how to remove a strong incense smell from our house. I'm currently in the middle of moving into a house that has a really strong smell of incense throughout it. We've had windows and doors open for days, washed the walls with vinegar solutions, washed the carpet in 3 carpeted bedrooms, and the smell still persists. I feel that the previous tenants were burning incense 24/7 as you can smell it coming out of the open windows as you approach the house. Any tips would be greatly appreciated!

Whenever I take a shower, the steam gets on the walls and Im assuming that this is nicotine that is running down the walls. I’m not a smoker and I really don’t know what this is. Whenever I clean it before it looked like it was also taking off the paint as well. Does anyone know what would be a good way to remove this gunk that’s rolling down all along my walls?

Which products and methods to you use to make a perfectly pristine, fresh environment for your incense? Some unfragranced cleaning products still leave a 'chemical' aftertaste. I use quite a bit of baking soda and pure castille liquid soap but wondered what suggestions others might have!

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