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Thursday, April 16, 2009

Another reason not to smoke...

is so your bathroom walls won't look like this:

(the worst I've seen it in months)
I've lived in my apt for 2 years. Before I moved in, the rental company put on a new coat of paint. I don't have a bathroom exhaust fan (it's an old apt), so every time there is a lot of steam in the bathroom, the nicotine seeps through and creates these lovely patterns on my walls. Gross. Really gross (luckily the stains wipe off easily with Clorox wipes). I think at this point I have scrubbed down all of the walls in the bathroom twice. I even keep the door open when the shower is on to help disperse the steam. Apparently a new coat of paint doesn't cover up the smoke damage. Fortunately the bathroom is the only room that has seen the yellow stains.

I know that cigarette smoke dissipates and that the previous owners clearly smoked inside, but since there is no end to the stains I think the old renters must have smoked in the bathroom. And that's trashy.

The point of this is: cigarettes+bathrooms=never ending stains.

Oh, and if you know of a more permanent solution for this, please let me know.

3 comments:

Becca's Blog said...

Ooooh maybe if you're lucky, one of the stains will form the image of the Virgin Mary and then you can make a shrine in your apartment and get famous and rich from charging people to see the shrine. You can always hope...

Alison said...

That's disgusting. Could they remove the fan, clean it out and put a new fan in? Perhaps with a filter of some sort to keep the nasty tar out? 2nd hand smoke steam - not good.

Stephanie said...

i think you have a typo. you said it was trashy to smoke in the bathroom when clearly you must have meant classy. easy mistake to make.