Smoker's House Smells Bad

[Luke Witherby]

Hi, I'm looking at buying my first house. It seems in great conditioner at a fair price, besides the fact that the owners smoked inside for around 15 years. I'm happy to clean and paint, hire a contractor to refinish the hard wood floors and clean the ducts. 

Does anyone have advice if this might be a good investment? Ideally I'd like to have the smoke smell completely removed before moving in.

Thank you!

-Luke

[Dave Spooner]

Some of the methods that I have used in the past to get rid of odors including the smell of smoke are baking soda, vinegar, ozone generators, activated charcoal, steam cleaning, and even opening windows to air it out a bit. Repainting, replacing carpet, etc. are also good ideas once you do the initial cleaning.