[whiteisright]

I moved into a new house. The former tenants of the house I was told was East Indian. There is this wretched odor which lingers in the house which smells like rotten spices. I used fabreeze, i opened the windows, I tried LITERRALLY EVERYTHING!! Nothing does the trick. How do I get rid of this smell?

[q0192837465]

Keep the windows open for at least a month.

Change the carpets too. The spice has already gotten into the fibre and there's no way u can remove it. The smell may also gotten into the walls so there's no way u can just "wipe it down".

[Gumby]

Ouch...

[josh t-1]

yeah your only hope is to paint the walls and replace the carpets...

[babykiller]

Start smoking.

[Inaii]

Try putting some tea tree oil in a spray thing of water. Apparently it gets rid of any smell. Learned that from a friend's friend a couple days ago.

[murd0c]

Sounds like karma for your name :D
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[greendb7]

Oh man bought a house from east indians..
fucking hate it when I go to their house and the next day my clothes still reek of that shit
I suggest changing carpet+painting walls

[corollagtSr5]

the house has been marinating for who knows how long

[Bender Unit]

Definately remove carpet if there's any

Coffee Grounds to Remove Tough Odors
Close all air opening, put shit load of Coffee Grounds inside
Starbucks give out free if you ask nicely.
come back in a week.
Good Luck

http://gomestic.com/homemaking/10-effective-ways-to-remove-bad-smell/

[StaxBundlez]

it's just your upper lip, son...








joking

[Greenstoner]

why get rid of the smell when you can try and enjoy it ?

have curry for at least a month

[RollingStone]

Changing the carpet is a must. It won't go away.

[Fafine]

pretty sure this guy is renting so i doubt he can remove the carpet without throwing down some dough. just cumin you'll get use to it within a week- i mean it'll be gone in a week...

[josh t-1]

pretty sure this guy is renting so i doubt he can remove the carpet without throwing down some dough. just cumin you'll get use to it within a week- i mean it'll be gone in a week...

it's the landlords responsibility, If the smell is that bad he can request that the landlord change the carpets, if he says "no" then he can make a report to the fair housing commission and they can make the landlord do it

[godwin]

Go to your friendly neighborhood real estate office and borrow their Ozone generator, leave it on while you are out, it should be cleared in a day or so.

[Fafine]

it's the landlords responsibility, If the smell is that bad he can request that the landlord change the carpets, if he says "no" then he can make a report to the fair housing commission and they can make the landlord do it

are you serious? what if the landlord's own house smells just like it won't he be offended?

[Vansterdam]

sounds like carpet to me as well, if you cant replace maybe cleaning them will help

[donot521]

Gasoline+a match

[Culture_Vulture]

Start smoking.

this

[The_AK]

have you tried carpet cleaning? like hiring the pros?

[invader]

Agree on the carpets....who knows, you might find piss stains. Thats what a friend did when he bought his house.

[racerman88]

you have replace all the carpets and underlay, repaint all the walls and ceilings.
Your typical renovations when you buy a house.

[mmmk]

call around for an OZONE GENERATOR...this machine will get rid of smells in any room (even dead animal smells)

i know unique detailing and richmond autospa have it. they'll leave the machine running for a few hours. but I think they have to do 1 room at a time...not the entire house.

[hotong]

get the carpets cleaned

[The_AK]

better yet.. call...

YouTube- [Crime Scene] Cleaner Trailer -Thriller- Release 2008

[Meowjin]

dont most EI family's have a small seperate kitchen so they dont make there house smell like spices?

[Harvey Specter]

I have a rental house; first tenant was an Asian couple. They stinked up the place so bad, no idea wtf they were cooking but the smell was so awful that I almost puked walking into my place. After they moved out, I had to get the carpet cleaned twice and the person who cleaned my carpets sprayed the entire place with something; don't know what it was but the smell was gone within a few days.

So I had an EI couple move in. I'm EI and growing up I know curry smell is the worst because it stinks up everything so when this couple moved out I had to get the carpet cleaned again, painted the walls and pinesol'd the entire place. Kept the windows open for a couple of days and the smell went away.

Finally had a white guy move in a few months ago, dude started smoking and when he left, the entire place smelled like a fucking club. So basically what I did was I ripped the carpet out and replaced it with vinyl hardwood flooring. Carpet is the worst if you have renters because it traps everything; vinyl flooring is the way to go. And smell gets trapped in the carpet or in the walls; my suggestion is get the carpet washed but I would prefer to just rip it out and paint the walls. Painting the walls will help big time.

Edit:

dont most EI family's have a small seperate kitchen so they dont make there house smell like spices?

Yes, new homes have small separate kitchens but when you're cooking curry its impossible isolate the smell unless you cook out in the garage or have a industrial sized fan, lol.

[greendb7]

dont most EI family's have a small seperate kitchen so they dont make there house smell like spices?

a lot of people do but Ive never met anybody who uses it asides my family

[Harvey Specter]

they arent that smart

You act like Asian homes smell soooooooo goooooooood.:rolleyes:

[Mr.Jay]

how did you not notice the smell when you were looking at the place?

[SumAznGuy]

I'm EI

Really? All this time I thought you were white and that was you in your avatar. Or was that middle eastern oil king?

I know there is one EI family on the first floor in the apartment that I am in, and the whole hallway smells like curry from their cooking.

But there is also a chinese family on the second floor and that floor smells like salty fish.

Unfortunately for me, my neighbour is Korean and I can smell the kimchi and deep fried gyoza's when she cooks.
:cry:

[cressydrift]

Lysol.

[BaoXu]

Honger people's houses smell like mothballs.

Taiwanese people's houses smell like boiling herbs.

Mainlander people's houses smell like porridge.

White people's houses smell like cat piss.

Indian people's houses smell like Subway restaurants.

Buddhist temples smell like boiled cabbages.

[SilverBlitz]

YouTube- Billy Mays What-Odor?® Odor Eliminator :thumbsup:

[Drow]

^^^

YouTube- What Odor Dub

:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[hirevtuner]

let a skunk in yer house hahah

must remove carpet and repaint the walls

[SkinnyPupp]

I don't think OP was expecting all these serious answers :lol

TROLL FAILED

[SMDBICH]

dont most EI family's have a small seperate kitchen so they dont make there house smell like spices?

Aren't they called Chinese kitchen?:noob:

[Harvey Specter]

Aren't they called Chinese kitchen?:noob:

Yes, they are lol.

[MG1]

Aren't they called Chinese kitchen?:noob:

Wok Kitchen.

[spoon.ek9]

Wok Kitchen.

Wok in Kitchen?

[Harvey Specter]

Honger people's houses smell like mothballs.

Taiwanese people's houses smell like boiling herbs.

Mainlander people's houses smell like porridge.

White people's houses smell like cat piss.

Indian people's houses smell like Subway restaurants.

Buddhist temples smell like boiled cabbages.

First one is true because my friends house smells like mothballs.

[Graeme S]

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f247/itsgms/Jahs11111.jpg

Nicely done, good sir.

[Harvey Specter]

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f247/itsgms/Jahs11111.jpg

Nicely done, good sir.

Didn't notice that until you posted. :thumbsup:

[orange7]

^
wow.. so many posts yet so few fails...

I wonder if a mod can just reset my failed counter.

[Toeknee]

I've gone into an EI's home once trying to make my craigslist sales. It smelled like curry when I went in but I didn't think too much of it. Until I went home and realized that my clothes smelled like curry too, just from the 10 min of stay in their house.

Them EI's love'em curries

[- kT]

like everybody else has said, carpets

might also be in the insulation in the walls too
best bet would be to just clean carpets, and if there's still smells then it's in the walls. if that's the case, your only hope is to mask the smell with something stronger

[Brianrietta]

your only hope is to mask the smell with something stronger

Like leather bound books and rich mahogany.

http://thedailypint.net/files/2008/12/scotch.jpg

[asahai69]

fuck. they shoulda been eating boiled potatoes and veggies. that smell is flavor buddy. try it some day

[Fobman]

being in a elevator with 3 indian fobs made me dizzy from their smell lol

[StealthFighter]

Really? All this time I thought you were white and that was you in your avatar. Or was that middle eastern oil king?


his avatar is Gordon Gekko. Mr. "greed, for a lack of a better word, is good". Hence Jah Gekko

[raygunpk]

^
wow.. so many posts yet so few fails...

I wonder if a mod can just reset my failed counter.

he rarely makes a bad post

also needs to change his status to RS News Anchor

[TypeRNammer]

I've gone into an EI's home once trying to make my craigslist sales. It smelled like curry when I went in but I didn't think too much of it. Until I went home and realized that my clothes smelled like curry too, just from the 10 min of stay in their house.

Them EI's love'em curries

Back when I delivered pizza for the Collingwood area, some of the EI's house have a over whelming blast of shit smell, not joking either.

Collecting money isn't fun when you feel like you're about to hurl.

[SkinnyPupp]

the funny thing about the mothball smell is that no clothes-eating moths live in hong kong OR BC. it is totally unnecessary
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[Ronin]

Get a different house.

[quasi]

I don't think OP was expecting all these serious answers :lol

TROLL FAILED

Exactly what I was thinking. Look at his name and it's his first post. Don't feed the trolls.

[racerman88]

Back when I delivered pizza for the Collingwood area, some of the EI's house have a over whelming blast of shit smell, not joking either.

Collecting money isn't fun when you feel like you're about to hurl.

Makes you think about the joke that Russell Peters made about when he was about to get off the plane in India and he said that there was an overwhelming smell of shit when the plane doors opened.

[hal0g0dv2]

:haha::haha::haha:Makes you think about the joke that Russell Peters made about when he was about to get off the plane in India and he said that there was an overwhelming smell of shit when the plane doors opened.

[twitchyzero]

thread of the year material right here.

[GLOW]

painting the walls and ceiling did the trick for us. if it's popcorn ceiling, that makes it a lot harder

[Qmx323]

ah yes, my family rented from a brown family before...

needless to say we moved out as soon as we could

[smk]

http://antzinpantz.com/kns/images/jul09/thats_racist_animated1.gif

[Qmx323]

hey they probably thought our food smelled like shit too LOL