Which paint for covering up smells

[etpm]

Get Mr. Stinky Freeloader to paint it...

Tried that. We got impatient and painted it today. Actually my wife painted it while I did other chores. The room smells like paint now. We were gonna do the floor before painting but my wife got impatient. At least it's just the primer coat.
Eric

 

[RSKY]

We had a skunk spray under our house. The only thing that worked to get rid of the smell was a commercial type ozone generator. Supposed to rid a 150,000 cu. ft. warehouse of smoke smell in 24 hours. I ran it in every room for 24 hours. It worked.

We flipped a house for a friend that her deceased dad had chain smoked in. Where he had sat at his computer the sheetrock was soaked in tar and nicotine. We used the bathroom cleaner KaBoom and a squeegee to get the most of it off. According to the Sherwin-Williams paint people the only thing that would cover the tobacco stain was shellac based primer. As of two months later when the house sold the stains had not bled thru.

Just my two cents worth.

RSKY

 

[two_bit_score]

We had a skunk spray under our house. The only thing that worked to get rid of the smell was a commercial type ozone generator. Supposed to rid a 150,000 cu. ft. warehouse of smoke smell in 24 hours. I ran it in every room for 24 hours. It worked.

We flipped a house for a friend that her deceased dad had chain smoked in. Where he had sat at his computer the sheetrock was soaked in tar and nicotine. We used the bathroom cleaner KaBoom and a squeegee to get the most of it off. According to the Sherwin-Williams paint people the only thing that would cover the tobacco stain was shellac based primer. As of two months later when the house sold the stains had not bled thru.

Just my two cents worth.

RSKY

Yep - White pigmented shellac.

 

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If this were me, and it's not, I would ask a paint chemist these questions rather than taking an expensive crap-shoot. I recall cigarette smoke smells of one of my apartment as a kid that were there long after the tenant was.

The big paint companies have chemists and tech people that have already been there and done that and can offer insights not thought of.

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