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Title: How to remove ingrained smells from melamine furniture
Post by: David Bucknall on December 10, 2020, 07:37:50 pm

Hi.
If anyone can help with this it would be amazing!
I have a customer who bought a 2nd piece of furniture which was previously in the home of a heavy smoker. It stinks of cigarettes and some pretty bad  smelling air freshener.
I have given it 2 washes with sugar soap, 1 with Cif, 1 with Flash and then 2 soaks with a biological animal urine smell and stain remover. It still stinks! The fAg smell has mostly gone but the air freshener isn’t budging.
Does anyone have a magic product that will fix this issue?
Thanks!!

Title: Re: How to remove ingrained smells from melamine furniture
Post by: Smudger on December 10, 2020, 07:48:33 pm

I would post this on the carpet cleaning section - the guys on there deal with this on a regular basis

Good luck

Darran

Title: Re: How to remove ingrained smells from melamine furniture
Post by: David Bucknall on December 10, 2020, 08:08:10 pm

Thanks Darran!

Title: Re: How to remove ingrained smells from melamine furniture
Post by: Kev Martin on December 12, 2020, 04:13:40 am

Quote from: David Bucknall on December 10, 2020, 07:37:50 pm

Hi.
If anyone can help with this it would be amazing!
I have a customer who bought a 2nd piece of furniture which was previously in the home of a heavy smoker. It stinks of cigarettes and some pretty bad  smelling air freshener.
I have given it 2 washes with sugar soap, 1 with Cif, 1 with Flash and then 2 soaks with a biological animal urine smell and stain remover. It still stinks! The fAg smell has mostly gone but the air freshener isn’t budging.
Does anyone have a magic product that will fix this issue?
Thanks!!

I’ve got a box of matches somewhere ;D

Title: Re: How to remove ingrained smells from melamine furniture
Post by: Yada Yada Yada - www.m-clean.uk on December 12, 2020, 07:59:59 pm

You've got 1st hand experience of people playing with matches!!