Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Smudger on February 18, 2024, 12:41:18 pm
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Looked at a jjob today interior clean to a large lounge where the old dear has spent the last 20 years smoking - need to clean ceiling, walls (painted) as well as hard surfaces and woodwork…
Been all of 8 years since I last had to face nicotine- what’s best products on the market to cut through this stuff..
Cheers
Darran
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I guarantee that 2 mins into this job, it'll bring back horrible memories and you'll swear you'll never do another one (unless you have staff of course, but they're not gonna thank you).
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Splash-anory has a mate that is the best in the world at smoking and another that is world champ at cleaning rooms that have been smoked in; he’ll be along in a second to tell you all about it, I’m sure ;)
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Splash-anory has a mate that is the best in the world at smoking and another that is world champ at cleaning rooms that have been smoked in; he’ll be along in a second to tell you all about it, I’m sure ;)
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Five litres of citrus degreaser & PPE £650.00 all furniture will need to be out. Keep eyes peeled for dodgy electrical fittings bare wires & water and all that.
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the best I found was sugar soap
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Prochem Ultrapac this is a great product for smoke and should remove nicotine .
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Looked at a jjob today interior clean to a large lounge where the old dear has spent the last 20 years smoking - need to clean ceiling, walls (painted) as well as hard surfaces and woodwork…
Been all of 8 years since I last had to face nicotine- what’s best products on the market to cut through this stuff..
Cheers
Darran
If they've got a dog it'll have to be put down first. Just in case it bites.
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Five litres of citrus degreaser & PPE £650.00 all furniture will need to be out. Keep eyes peeled for dodgy electrical fittings bare wires & water and all that.
Any particular make ?
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Five litres of citrus degreaser & PPE £650.00 all furniture will need to be out. Keep eyes peeled for dodgy electrical fittings bare wires & water and all that.
Any particular make ?
https://www.onestopcleaningshop.co.uk/product/5l-viro-sol-5l/?attribute_pa_size=20l
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Virosol.
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Splash-anory has a mate that is the best in the world at smoking and another that is world champ at cleaning rooms that have been smoked in; he’ll be along in a second to tell you all about it, I’m sure ;)
No we certainly wouldn’t take the job on at any price did one 25 years ago was a conservatory and I ended up throwing my shirt away as couldn’t get the smell and staining out of it and the smell was on my skin for days never again . Plenty of easy well paying work out there why do stuff like this
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We cleaned the insides of one conservatory of a chain smoker once. I vowed never to take another job on like that, and never have since. I coughed for days afterwards.
My son bought his house from a chain smoker. My wife offered her help and I can tell you nicotine just dripped from the ceilings. It took weeks to get rid of it.
Now, I won't even go into a house where a smoker smokes inside. The other issue for me is regarding one of your worker's health. Could he come back on you in years to come and blame doing this job on his deteriorating health you coerced him to do?
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Happy to do any work at the right price 👍
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H&s - not sure unless they decide to lick the surfaces clean 🤮
In this day and age who can tell what staff now want to put down as ‘ruining their health’
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Happy to do any work at the right price 👍
I would usually agree but this is the one exception to the rule , no price would be high enough
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I’d second on virosol.
It’s pretty eco friendly so you can just keep increasing the dosage until it cuts through the grease.
I’ve done a few internal Conservatories with this and it’s worked well.
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As above, did an internal conservatory clean when I was new to the game about 12 years ago. Priced it from a picture. Never again. I’d only quit smoking about 2 years at the time, utterly disgusting job.
Charged £120 thinking it was an easy mornings work (10+ years ago) and it took me all day, I would take that job on for £1000 nowadays.
Suppose it’s a different situation if you are taking the job on and its staff that are doing the work.
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it won't be cheap - somewhere in the 800 to 1000 range - I doubt I will get it BUT! just in case... :-X
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Sugar soap will get it off hard surfaces easily.