All Forum Posts by: Roshan Taheri

Thanks! I like this idea the best...I didn't really know door styles much. I think a barn door would be too expensive / out of style. 6 panel bi-folds look like they would fit with everything else. 

 Like this ? lol...

http://www.cuttingedgestencils.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Stencil-Ideas-Spring-Songbirds-Doors.jpg

 Sorry I’m kinda new. I tried googling luver style and am coming up short handed. Do you have a link to an example by any chance ?

We have these accordion style doors (pics below with all our tools in the room) to the washer and dryer room and they are old and seem out of style. The doors themselves look cheap and just ugly. One caveat, the door is in a hallway so there's not a lot of room to put in double opening doors. 

We can't really figure out what we should do to make them more modern and look better. Anyone have experience with this kind of thing?

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I'm going through the same thing right now. I'd use Michael's advice -- wash the walls a couple times with TSP + water. I know it is a pain in the *** but it helps a lot. We also tried using a hand-held steam cleaner with a bunch of old rags that we would change out whenever it got saturated (which is pretty quickly) and that helped a lot with the manual labor.

Also use Kilz primer before painting.

Just an update for the curious. We got the tile clean, I washed the walls twice and I scraped all the popcorn ceiling and removed it. The smoke smell had started to go away and we are really confident the shellac is gonna help get rid of it entirely. Thanks everyone for all the help. I think the popcorn ceiling removal helped the most...maybe we got lucky that it soaked up all the smoke. 

That sounds awful. Hopefully we get through this. It’s our first rental. 

That’s a bit more encouraging. I’ll report back in a few and let you know how it goes. We aren’t prepared to rip up tile and walls yet. 

We got that primer already but I wasn’t aware the resin will seep through it after a while. How long does it keep the smoke at bay?  

The smoker only smoked in the living room by the looks of it, but are you saying we basically have to re dry wall and insulate or the odor will just come back? 

The tile was sealed and it doesn’t seem like the smoke has penetrated it but we will see. 

We are putting vinegar and water on the walls to start and then going to prime. 

Simple green seems to be working on the tile and baking soda and peroxide on the grout.