Wonder if you can suggest any smelly sprays, chemicals or suchlike which can disperse the smell of hash.
I live in a flat in a converted old house and of the half dozen or so flats in our block 2 are regular hash smokers and when they are at home on hols, such as this time of year, the sickly sweet smell comes out of their apartments then really lingers in the entrance hallway – it is really eeeuuww, sick-making even to pass through the hallway. It creeps in through to my flat and it makes me gag.
Some of us have tried plugging in those gadgets which has a phial of liquid aromatic stuff but that smells even worse than the hash. The hallway is carpeted and very enclosed with one electric socket.
What about putting a kettle of water with something astringent smelling in it in the hallway. Neutradol gel or spray might be good, the ads say they are used in hospital. A wetted towel soaked in vinegar and swung about is meant to get rid of ordinary tobacco smoke smell --anyone know of any dodges for getting rid of the smell of S h 1 t
Just for reference, can we assume hash smoking is not illegal in your area?
In general though, it’s not very effective to use smelly stuff to mask another smell. You just wind up with a mix of foul odors. What you really need is a way to ventilate the area and bring in fresh air. Ideally, you’d pressurize the hallway slightly so any smells coming from apartments won’t be able to enter the hall and will be pushed out the apartment’s windows.
This locality is very mixed, families, older people but also a high proportion of students and superannuated hippies, so pot for personal use would only merit a warning — I would not know which one of the two people was causing the nuisance at any one time so couldn’t “finger” any particular one if I did call out the police – am really keeping the police in reserve for if we get any real disturbances like fisticuffs [but they’re all too wet for fighting! They are usually no big trouble, just extending their teenage irresponsible days but can’t find enough cronies to waste time]
I will try an unscented candle –
With the oranges or citrus fruit - should I get some juice or zest and boil it up in a kettle of water. Or leave whole fruits or cut segments out for a while in the hall.
Ventilation would be good I will ask the agents about the possibilities I think that is half the problem with this old property.
Well, I smoke cigs in my apt, and if you can find Ozium (usually in the automotive air freshener section where I shop), that stuff will kill ANYTHING. I’ve watched it eat through a smoke-fogged room before, leaving it fresh smelling in 30 minutes.
Buuuuuut I don’t know where you are, so I can’t tell you if you’d be able to find it.
The active ingredients are:
Triethylene Glycol … 4.4%
Propylene Glycol … 4.4%
Inactive ingredients … 91.2%
If that helps any.
The original scent leaves the room smelling kinda “soapy,” but they make citrus.
i always though incense was the standard masking agent.
I remember in basic training (ca. 1982) one of the prohibited items was incense. Our drill sargeant didn’t want us smoking “them high performance cigarettes.,”
Maybe put something in the hallway to counter the smell. Attach to it a note explaining that the hallway is reeking of hash, and imply (politely) that the smokers might consider the old college-dorm trick of putting a towel or one of those snake-like draftblockers over the crack at the bottom of their doors, for the common good.
