Vapor residue on walls, carpet etc. Need help/advice.

[FlamingoTutu]

Can’t believe this is still going. 200 posts. I’ve only read random pages, some good posts too! I think you might have boxed yourself in with that promise not to vape in your apartment. The landlord can now blame any buildup in there now on vaping. In college I used to work cleaning up student apartments. You would not believe the amount of grease buildup on the walls from one semester of cooking with a lot of oil. These were international students, most didn’t smoke. We’d have to scrape, scrub and repaint. A smoker’s room on the other hand was nearly spotless in comparison. If there is anything on your walls, it sounds like he’s going to blame it on the vaping, even if you never vape in there. Just my humble experience.

 

[Uma]

It's killing me. Every morning I clean the windows- I have a thing about dirty windows. The only thing that seems to reduce the deposits is to vape with a window down or sunroof popped open.

Can you refrain from vaping at all in your car for a week and report your findings?
1. Your car model. (How close is the windshield to the driver? My jeep is really close, gets a lot of film even when not vaping or nobody smoking)
2. Your environment. ( my jeep is off road only)
#2.A. check weather reports for average humidity during the test time.
3. The car's condition. (I need a new manifold and muffler in mine)
4. The hours spent in your car (a good 2 hours each outing in mine, stop and go cow traffic lol and sightseeing of course)
5. Type of gas or diesel you use. (Regular gas in mine & apparently methane gas from nearby cows)
6. Other (do you smoke a pipe or cigar or ride the train or bus, etc, which fills your lungs with "other". Is your workplace in a factory or high traffic area? Etc). (I inhale ghastly amounts of dust, hay, pollen, animal hair, BBQ, coffee vapor, exhaust)

 

[patkin]

#2.. check weather reports for average humidity during the test time.

 

[ScandaLeX]

I don't recall this being mentioned before and if it was and I simply just missed it..........oh well.
I'm curious how this conversation even came up with the landlord.
Most of them don't even know what vaping is.
By any chance did you stick your foot in it by asking him all out of the blue if it was ok if you vaped?

 

[patkin]

I'm becoming obsessed and I don't even have OCD. I'm sitting here at my computer, in front of a window with sunlight pouring in, watching my plumes of vapor. Guess what, they don't drop down... no wonder there's nothing on my computer, screen, mouse, etc.... the plumes travel up and toward the center of the large room with vaulted ceiling behind me that I sit in. I guess there's pretty good air flow in here. But that should mean the AC filter would be gunked up with PG/moisture/dirt residue and its not. Now, when I smoked that filter was a mess and had to be changed way more often than now. Oh, well, the mystery continues.

 

[DetraMental]

I don't see the point in continuing this thread. The op seems to have found the answer through all this and left everyone arguing a mute point. Anzt maybe.....dunno, just seems the op argued on each conceivable answer given with some form of scientific proof so I can't see a reason trying to prove otherwise to them.

 

[rico942]

You would not believe the amount of grease buildup on the walls from one semester of cooking with a lot of oil.

I had blocked this from my memory, a summer of renovating apartments in Portland, many after 20 plus years with the same tenants ...

Waves of grease deposits behind the stoves, had to be peeled off with putty scrapers, then washed with TSP before fresh paint had any hope of sticking ...

Its true that indoor smoking tenants tend to wash the walls regularly and repaint more frequently than non-smokers, often at their own expense ...

 

[Ramjet]

It just keeps going and going...

 

[StormFinch]

I had blocked this from my memory, a summer of renovating apartments in Portland, many after 20 plus years with the same tenants ...

Waves of grease deposits behind the stoves, had to be peeled off with putty scrapers, then washed with TSP before fresh paint had any hope of sticking ...

Its true that indoor smoking tenants tend to wash the walls regularly and repaint more frequently than non-smokers, often at their own expense ...

Unfortunately not in the case of my in-laws, who's house we inherited. I haven't had a chance to paint the main bathroom yet, (we're in the middle of remodeling the other one currently) which unfortunately seems to be one of the worst rooms in the house for cigarette tar build up. I've washed the walls twice, and each time the humidity from the shower brings more tar out of the paint to run down the walls.

I can see that there's going to be several gallons of Killz in my future.

 

[Uma]

#2.. check weather reports for average humidity during the test time.

Good one! Humidity plays a very important element.

 

[EvilZoe]

I don't see the point in continuing this thread. The op seems to have found the answer through all this and left everyone arguing a mute point. Anzt maybe.....dunno, just seems the op argued on each conceivable answer given with some form of scientific proof so I can't see a reason trying to prove otherwise to them.

Sometimes threads take on a life of their own and are no longer about the OP but rather the subject itself, which is actually pretty interesting.

 

[StormFinch]

Sometimes threads take on a life of their own and are no longer about the OP but rather the subject itself, which is actually pretty interesting.

And this one definitely qualifies.

 

[CES]

So, a funny thing happened this evening. I was out with friends and a couple of us had just given a kit to a friend who had been contemplating switching to vaping. He actually asked whether there might be build-up on the walls like there is from smoking. He was quite pleased with my answer that there was a conversation going on here right now- and that consensus was not really (I threw in the ClearStream results about the lack of anything problematic in the exhale for good measure).

 

[Burnie]

This thread is better than the Movies/TV , Pass the popcorn






Vape On

 

[Mike.S]

I haven't gone through all 22 pages, so maybe some has mentioned this. Propylene glycol is a common component for air fresheners (along with a bunch of other things). I've never heard any concerns or complaints of surface build-up due to use of those.

 

[smacuser]

This thread is better than the Movies/TV , Pass the popcorn Vape On

For real.

I keep imagining the initial conversation between the landlord and tenant; what they look like, what they're wearing.

Then cuts to the tenant spending sleepless hours at the computer, inter-mix the various experiments he's performing while wearing a surgical mask and blue rubber gloves; beakers and thermometers all around.

Next is a through-the-floor pan of the squat looking landlord in his over-stuffed leather chair, mindlessly starring at the TV with a whisky in hand and a fat stogie in his mouth.

 

[Ramjet]

I haven't gone through all 22 pages, so maybe some has mentioned this. Propylene glycol is a common component for air fresheners (along with a bunch of other things). I've never heard any concerns or complaints of surface build-up due to use of those.

Yah, I've seen those things before and I've never noticed a pg/vg film. As a matter of fact, doesn't that bottle look familiar? Hmmm, what mg is that?

 

[meanckz]

For real.

I keep imagining the initial conversation between the landlord and tenant; what they look like, what they're wearing.

Then cuts to the tenant spending sleepless hours at the computer, inter-mix the various experiments he's performing while wearing a surgical mask and blue rubber gloves; beakers and thermometers all around.

Next is a through-the-floor pan of the squat looking landlord in his over-stuffed leather chair, mindlessly starring at the TV with a whisky in hand and a fat stogie in his mouth.

haha....right out of a sitcom script

 

[stevegmu]

Can you refrain from vaping at all in your car for a week and report your findings?
1. Your car model. (How close is the windshield to the driver? My jeep is really close, gets a lot of film even when not vaping or nobody smoking)
2. Your environment. ( my jeep is off road only)
#2.A. check weather reports for average humidity during the test time.
3. The car's condition. (I need a new manifold and muffler in mine)
4. The hours spent in your car (a good 2 hours each outing in mine, stop and go cow traffic lol and sightseeing of course)
5. Type of gas or diesel you use. (Regular gas in mine & apparently methane gas from nearby cows)
6. Other (do you smoke a pipe or cigar or ride the train or bus, etc, which fills your lungs with "other". Is your workplace in a factory or high traffic area? Etc). (I inhale ghastly amounts of dust, hay, pollen, animal hair, BBQ, coffee vapor, exhaust)

Nope, can't not vape in my car. I need my fix before work or break and on the way home.

I have owned the car 16 years. It is in perfect mechanical condition. I know the car. When I smoked in the car, I got the typical nicotine film. Now that I only vape in the car, I get a very slightly greasy film within 1 day. I only have a 20 minute commute, but now nearly always drive with the windows up. I don't get as bad a film when I have a window down, sunroof open, air conditioning on or heater on. When I quit smoking in my car, but didn't vape, there was no film/residue on the windows.

 

[Ramjet]

So, a funny thing happened this evening. I was out with friends and a couple of us had just given a kit to a friend who had been contemplating switching to vaping. He actually asked whether there might be build-up on the walls like there is from smoking. He was quite pleased with my answer that there was a conversation going on here right now- and that consensus was not really (I threw in the ClearStream results about the lack of anything problematic in the exhale for good measure).

Hey CES, I see you've been hangin around this place for almost 4 years. How'd this problem slip under the radar for so long? We should have a prepackaged answer by now View attachment 265589