| taskforce58 | 22 Jan 2015 5:48 a.m. PST |
OK, yesterday I  ed up big time. I wanted to apply a spray clear coating to a model ship I just finished, so I ducked into the basement bathroom, turned on the fan and blasted away. Well, I guess I didn't close the door fully so now the whole house smells of spray fume. And the wife is MAD. Any idea how to remove the smell, other than the usual "open the windows and turn on the fan"? I've heard raw onion cut in half placed around the house will absorb the smell, but never tried it (doesn't hurt to try I guess). |
| dBerczerk | 22 Jan 2015 6:08 a.m. PST |
Turn off the fan and cook the onions in butter. It may not help that much with the spray fumes, but they will be tasty. |
| Winston Smith | 22 Jan 2015 6:09 a.m. PST |
What good would the fans do with a closed door to a closet?
The smell will go away eventually. It's winter and the house is sealed. You have to expect this. What you are smelling is the solvent. I do it in the basement with the basement door closed. Eventually the furnace and hot water heater will suck in the fumes.  |
| redbanner4145 | 22 Jan 2015 6:52 a.m. PST |
Get a cat, then that's all you'll smell. |
| Rrobbyrobot | 22 Jan 2015 6:55 a.m. PST |
Move to warmer area. Then you can spray your stuff outside year round. |
| morrigan | 22 Jan 2015 6:58 a.m. PST |
I always spray in the basement. My wife doesn't mind. |
| Pictors Studio | 22 Jan 2015 8:01 a.m. PST |
I spray outside year round and I live in Pennsylvania. |
 Sgt Slag  | 22 Jan 2015 8:07 a.m. PST |
Make a spray booth, with an exhaust fan, and an activated charcoal filter. Plans are on the web. Cheers! |
 Extra Crispy  | 22 Jan 2015 8:57 a.m. PST |
All you can do is wait I'm afraid. Things like baking soda only absorb smells if air os forced over them. So a pan may remove the smell from the 1m surrounding it, but beyond that, it won't help. |
| TNE2300 | 22 Jan 2015 9:09 a.m. PST |
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| Cold Steel | 22 Jan 2015 9:34 a.m. PST |
Just tell her to live with it! A man has to do what a man has to do! (Then make sure there are clean sheets on the sofa bed.) |
| SBminisguy | 22 Jan 2015 9:42 a.m. PST |
Good video…but there's a part where he uses duct tape to help put his spray booth together and he says, "I used duct tape, I call it kidnapping tape since it's easier to remember"…makes me wonder… |
| Cyrus the Great | 22 Jan 2015 9:48 a.m. PST |
Definitely a first world problem! |
| Los456 | 22 Jan 2015 9:55 a.m. PST |
The bigger issue is why you thought spray painting models inside your wife's house was somehow going to fly in the first place! |
| duncanh | 22 Jan 2015 12:32 p.m. PST |
taskforce58. Go back to the basement, smoke a cigarette, discard the butt don't extinguish it, light a match, discard and then submit yourself for a Darwin Award. Once the firefighters have gone there won't be a smell. Make sure your home insurance premiums are paid up and your life insurance. |
| Mardaddy | 22 Jan 2015 12:40 p.m. PST |
Extra Crispy, can't he go all over the house, flailing a box of baking soda then? The soda clouds would absorb all the smell *then* wouldn't it? But, hey, sometimes the solution is worse than the problem… |
 Virtualscratchbuilder  | 22 Jan 2015 12:58 p.m. PST |
Clean your oven with Easy Off. Kills two birds with one stone. |
| Razor78 | 22 Jan 2015 1:35 p.m. PST |
Febreze Air Effects. My wife has a super sense of smell and so normally I have to spray everything outside and even then wait for at least 10 minutes before I bring it in. But when the weather turned too cold and I really needed to spray something in the basement I used this stuff and sprayed in the air right above where I sprayed and I never heard any complaints from her. So I bought a case… |
| Zephyr1 | 22 Jan 2015 3:24 p.m. PST |
Don't try to cover it up by spritzing some perfume in the air. No explanation you could make will ever be believed by her… |
| Dark Knights And Bloody Dawns | 23 Jan 2015 11:03 a.m. PST |
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| Elenderil | 31 Jan 2015 8:31 a.m. PST |
Coffee grounds work for pipe tobbacco smells. I have used it to get rid of smells in a car I bought. |
| Dave Crowell | 03 Feb 2015 8:37 a.m. PST |
About once a year I make the mistake of spraying figures in the basement. The forced air from the furnace is *very* efficient at dispersing the solvent fumes thoroughly throughout the house. Every time I think "it won't be that bad this year, I'm only doing a quick spray of a few figures" |
thanks everyone who helped after her family's recent fire.
