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The Mage

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Well 2 weeks ago my father had to be taken back to the hospital because they discovered his colon was perforated. This caused leaking into his chest cavity, limiting his ability to breath. Friday he went back to the rehab center, but will need a followup surgery in about 2 months.

During this time I received a a request to remove one of my machines, and discovered another location had moved my machine back into a hidden area so nobody was using it, so I pulled that machine also. A little annoying, but these were not very good locations anyway.

Also much of my time has been spent attempting to clean up (and fix) my fathers house so it can be sold, as well as clean up a retirement condo he inadvertently owns because his step mother left it to him. She was a very hard smoker, and I am trying my best to remove that smoke smell from the condo. Unfortunately my father thought all you needed to do was paint the walls, and change the carpet, and that would eliminate the smoke smell. But it may have helped to preserve the smell of the smoke under the paint.

But I think the worst of the smell may be coming from the ceiling, which is unfortunately covered with that sprayed on popcorn crap.

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You could always just grab a big putty knife and go over the popcorn and take it off, then go over the whole ceiling with kilz and a ceiling paint on top of that and hopefully that would take care of the problem. I believe the popcorn will leave a smooth finish when removed. If not a little lite rubbing with a drywall sander on a pole should get it smooth and you should be able to paint it then. Before my son was born we smoked in the house and I couldn't believe how nasty the ceiling was discolored from it. I will never smoke inside ever again.
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I found a video on removing popcorn online. Tarp everything, have a portion tested to make sure it isn't asbestos, wet the popcorn, and then start scraping. There is a tool you can hook a bag to, and will help with the removal.

My goal is not to remove the popcorn though, if I can. I seem to be making headway. Spent yesterday cleaning everything I didn't clean before, and hit the worst parts of the ceiling by taping a cleaning solution onto the ceiling that is supposed to break up the resins that keep producing the smoke. (Ammonia, vinegar, and baking soda in water.)

So far the smell seems to have dissipated, but I will find out if time will brings it back.
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