I burned the dog’s breakfast. House is/was full of smoke. No other damage.
I’ve got the windows open and the full house fan on, but. . .
SWMBO will be back in one week and I’ve GOT to get out as much smoke as I can.
I would like to spend less than $50, but will go as high as $375, which incudles $325 that I have been saving for over a year for a specific purpose.
Are there any industrials strength “Oziums” out there?
Any thing you guys know that will work to get the smell of smoke out?
Thanks.
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Sam, the de smokers here hire out wall washers and use Ozonators to de-smokify the air.
Call your rental agent.
A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
Quittin' Time
Edited 10/23/2006 2:32 pm ET by calvin
woowee Is she gonna bust yer dead azz when she gets back! ROAR! We can all smell the fear.
Collection time on BT for SamT lest he flail away grasping straws as he sinks away into oblivion.
be I have a dollar towards Sam's dilemma. Do I hear another?
when in doubt add garlic
I'm in for buck, but we need a hidden video camera in place before SWMBO gets home.
We'll get our money back when the video makes it to the finals on Funniest Home Videos.
SamT can have the balance for his next project. (maybe cooking lessons?)
Dave
ya, Sam's a really good egg.
I mean how many people cook the dog's breakfast.
be heh hehI mean heh heh Roar!
when in doubt add garlic
Febreze. Thanks Splinter and Hector
Duh rest a ya bums can go soak your heads in cold puppy chow.
Not really.
Really, thanks for making me see the humor in too.
Gotta laugh, can't cry, ya know?
And before she left, she told me not to do anything to upset her this time.
Waaah.SamT
heh, heh, heh.....
so what's your first line of defense ? deaf, CRS ?
devil ?
Mike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
A word to the wise.... (or not) she is going to find SOMETHING. You might give her an easy find like a broken plate or a spill on the carpet so she will quit looking sooner. It could work <g>. Or it might just encourage her to keep looking and sniffing.
Long time lurker, new profile
A little lipstick on his shirt collar and he probably wouldn't have to worry about what the house smells like.
;)
jt8
"All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own." -- Goethe
I'm in for a buck!
What's "SWMBO"...
And why do you care what this person thinks?
Brooks
She
Who
Must
Be
Obeyed
be an obeyor
when in doubt add garlic
Edited 10/23/2006 2:58 pm ET by rez
This is cracking me up! He must be a newlywed! Can't come up with a good story?Lessee...Version #1:"Ed McMahon stopped by with our $1,000,000 check. Dog was so happy to see him he jumped onto Ed. Ed was drunk, as usual, and stumbled into cameraman, who wassmoking. Ciggy dropped onto Wall Street Journal, that I've been reading so I canmake you a famous billionaire. Got fire out fast before dog got scorched. Ed & co.ran! I love you, baby!"
Version#2:"What smell? Glad you're back! I'm horny! What's for dinner?"Version #3:"Buuuuuurrrrrrrrrppppppp!"And that's just off the top of my head!Brooks
What's "SWMBO"...
Rumpole of the Bailey is a television series created and written by British writer Sir John Mortimer, QC and starring Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an ageing London barrister who defends any and all clients. It has been spun off into a series of short stories, novels, and radio programmes.
His wife Hilda is The SWMBO - She Who Must Be Obeyed.
It seems to be a popular title. I have a SWMBO. See also DW - dishwasher, drywall or dear wife.The ToolBear
"Never met a man who couldn't teach me something." Anon.
Practice these words:
"Smoke?!!! What Smoke?!" (Scrunchy face is helpful)
"I don't smell anything".
"Nothing happened!"
"What do you think happened?"
Always helpful,
blue
Our Skytrak is for sale. It has 500 hrs on it. We want 50k (you pay the freight) and we'll finance it. Drop me an email; it's a good buy.
Let me get this straight, Puppy Chow tastes better hot?
Rebuilding my home in Cypress, CA
Also a CRX fanatic!
>>>Let me get this straight, Puppy Chow tastes better hot?
LOL. How would someone know? Any volunteers?
Scott.Always remember those first immortal words that Adam said to Eve, “You’d better stand back, I don’t know how big this thing’s going to get.”
Try Fabreeze.
Jon
I turned a soup pot full of garbanzo beans to charcoal in my house. The smell was literally nauseating, getting worse as the days went by. The disaster-control people told me protein smells are the hardest to eradicate; something about dead bodies was cheerfully relayed as evidence. They wanted $1000 to come out to my house, which was too much for my nose and wallet.
I got rid of the smell completely by blowing warm air from the dryer hose across a pot of Febreze. I used refill-size bottles of Febreze (two quarts?) and the problem was fixed by the time the stuff was evaporated in a couple days. Pie plates of the stuff set over a heater would work, too...just keep the dog from spilling it!
Next time stick to PuppyChow Tartar.
As to "whats that smell?"
"Honey, I am real sorry, I learned my lesson and won't make this mistake again. No more garlic and pinto bean pizza, ever. It gave me the most unbelieveable (no kidding) gas I have ever had in my life. I swear the smell was so bad it woke me up from a solid sleep. The dog wouldn't even stay in the room with me.
You mean you can still smell it? Dang, I have had all the windows open for days now. I thought it was all gone now".
Do rent an ozone generator, which is what the pros use.
ROTF
Thanks Norm. Ozone Generator. Got it.
I'll put that between the fan and the Fabreze.
I wonder what the weather is like in southern Brazil now-a-days?SamT
I drove for 5 days from Florida back home to MT while my darlin' was holding down the fort, critters, and garden. When i walked in, the place was filled with balloons with hand-written messages - "Yay! She's home!" "We missed you!" - and bouquets in every room. If the whole damn place had burnt down in my absence, i would've had him in the greenhouse...Anyway, i have to ask...what was the special purpose of the $325 before you made a dog's breakfast out of the dog's breakfast?
Yeah, well that's another thing.
She can't have me in the greenhouse either, unless I get that built too, before she gets home.
The covering just arrived today. Framing lack a dozen sticks of being done.
Ya think maybe, the south of Chile?
Ah he11, McMurdo Station. Who cares about the weather, anyway. SamT
The table saw is fine, too, but i'm not sure it would have universal appeal. OTOH, with the 52" side extension on the Unisaw, it's a rather more upscale experience than those CI, webbed wings on a Grizzly that leave some serious imprint. The right tool for the job, as they say...
That's. . . .
You're. . . .
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Hey! whadahyah tryin't to do? Get me kicked back into the Tavern?SamT
In our defense, we can point to the skinny dude in the blue speedo who is still hanging out.
LOLSamT
Well, if it's cool/coldish out, getting a half-gallon jug of apple juice/cider and heating it with mulling spices will help make a nicer smell.
Carmelizing some onions in a skillet will also work nicely (just don't burn those <g>).
Put a pot of pasta sauce on, the day of expected return, and let simmer (this is even better if one has a dutch oven for the task, and simmmers aromatics like onion & garlic, first). While you are at that, wrap a haed of garlic in aluminum foil, and bake 15 minutes at 350Âş (if a person leaves the oven door open after that, it can make for a nice, anti-vampiric, "air sammitch"). Spreading the baked garlic on some split italian bread loaves with the least bit of grated parm over that, will bake to a lovely aroma too.
(Oh, and some idiot forgot to pay attention last night and burned granulated sugar in the MW, so, several "solutions" to burnt sugar are fresh on the mind of the onlyest idjit in my kichen . . . <sigh>)Occupational hazard of my occupation not being around (sorry Bubba)
Repaint the interior with stinky paint.
which incudles $325 that I have been saving for over a year for a specific purpose.
be dammm, there goes the big nite at the #### bar.......up in smoke.
Just bring the barbecue in; you're cleaning it, right?
My dog has a question. What the heck were you cooking for your dog?
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Sam's puppy is a yuppy so he heats the puppychow up before he serves it.
be singing... “Puppy Chow for a full year – til he’s full grown.”
when in doubt add garlic
Homemade charcoal briquettes.
SamT
Edited 10/23/2006 10:25 pm by SamT
LMAO. Good one.
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Ozium is still available at car parts stores. Get y'self a can and spray it around the house. If that doesn't quite do it, use the Febreeze and tell her you had a bunch of strippers at the house. Thinking of repainting something, you see.
A cheap first try is to take a towel and soak it with white vinegar. Squeeze it out really well, then walk through the house swinging it around over your head.
Works for smoke, like from fires. Not sure about puppy chow.
Oh, and BTW, that $350 isn't being saved for jewlrey for SWMBO is it?
24 hour Ozonator rental $60
4 Liters Febreze $17
She didn't notice! Priceless!
A sincere thank you to all y'all
Good thing the dog can't talk...
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Wrinkled was not one of the things I wanted to be when I grew up.
wait till she reads the mail...
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Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
Wait til the dog starts horking up breakfast!
People used to laugh at me when i'd talk about Febreze.
Ah, vindication....
If it makes you feel any better we buy a side of beef from the butcher. Included is lots of stuff we don't eat like stew meat and liver. So we cook it up for our German shepard. My dog actually likes the tounge (yuk)
I'd try wiping down all with walls with some kind of cleaning agent. They sell those floor mops thats a sponge etc. For $325 I bet you could find some high school kid to do it for you.
Curely, I think the crisis is over this time.
SWMBO is none the wiser, and from now on, the dog gets cold cuts._______________________________________________________________
Wrinkled was not one of the things I wanted to be when I grew up.
For $325.00 I would think that he could hire one of those exotic maid services.
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That was last night.
Now I'm dead.
Cleaning for $325? HAH! there are easily over 100,000 items just in her four rooms, more than 200 outfits hanging in the closets. 6 dressers, tightly packed, every square inch of flat surface stacked higher than humanly possible with stuff. Except for the kitchen, there are no pathways larger than 18". I have to move stuff out of the shower to use it and play the chiclets game to move from the bathroom sink to the bathroom cabinet/locker. The living room set is usually used as a flat surface. The only time there is more than 3"sq empty countertop in the kitchen is immediatly after I cook. Play chiclets, pull a pan out of the island, play chiclets, move to the stove, play chiclets, set the pan down. Play chiclets, set the cutting board. Wanna do laundry? Chiclets. Get in the freezer, an almost daily event? Chiclets. Access a utility room shelf, call a moving company!
At least, she comes by this trait honestly. Her dad lives upstairs. His space is literally twice as crowded. Less than 6" paths. Intermittant. A Hurdles course. He moves stuff from a chair to a path to sit down, then back to the chair to move away. There is no kitchen, just a pile of stuff.
And I moved here from California with no more than I could carry in the back of my Toyota, beneath the bed rails.
The cleaning bill for this place would run twenty grand or more.
If I had any choice over me, she would not be my SWMBO. But. . . .
Thanks for being here.SamT
We've got what we consider alot of clutter in our house. But nothing like that. If it wouldn't be for the trafic problems created by all the dumpster divers I'd throw it all in a dumpster and start over. Well no actually I wouldn't start over. I'd be content with the basics.
One of these days.
http://www.hay98.com/
Well Sam,
Did ya make the grade or did you get caught?
be is all well?
when in doubt add garlic
busted.
But not till the morning after she got here.
I guess her snozzolla needed time to rest after the trip.SamT
Go buy a fist full of Cigars. and a couple of bottles of Port. Watch a football game, and put your feet up.