Removing Black Marks

• 1). Put on your heavy-duty rubber gloves and goggles. Trisodium phosphate can damage your eyes and irritate your skin, so you need to avoid contact with your skin and eyes.
  
  
• 2). Fill a clean bucket with 1 gallon of warm water. Add 1 tbsp. of trisodium phosphate.
  
  
• 3). Fill the second bucket with clean, warm water.
  
  
• 4). Dip your sponge with trisodium phosphate solution and ring it out. Wipe down the areas that have black marks and or charring.
  
  
• 5). Dip a clean rag in the bucket of warm water and wipe down the areas you just sponged.
  
  
• 6). Repeat steps one through five until the black and or charred marks are gone.
  
  

Smoke Odors

• 1). Wipe down floors, walls, counter tops furniture and anything else with a hard surface with white vinegar.
  
  
• 2). Place several bowls of white vinegar around the room or rooms that have smoke damage. White vinegar is a natural deodorizer. Over two or three days it will help to eliminate the smoke odor.
  
  
• 3). Sprinkle baking soda on upholstered furniture and rugs. Let it sit for two or three days to fully absorb smoke odors. Vacuum it up after the second or third day.
  
  
• 4). Remove drapes and curtains. Hang them outside for two or three days to let the fresh air remove the smoke odor. If there is still lingering smoke odor when you bring them in, spray them with Febreze.
  
  
• 5). Open windows and doors to let fresh air in to cut down any remaining smoke odors.
  
  

Bubbled Paint

• 1). Put your dust mask on. This will protect you from any dust particles that are kicked up while you are sanding the areas of bubbled paint.
  
  
• 2). Scrape away the bubbles in the paint with the putty knife.
  
  
• 3). Sand the areas where the paint bubbles were until they are flat.
  
  
• 4). Put a bit of spackle paste on your other putty knife and apply the spackle to the areas where the paint bubbles were. This will cover any imperfections.
  
  
• 5). Once the spackle is dry, sand the areas you just spackled until they are even with the wall or ceiling.
  
  
• 6). Open windows and doors to let fresh air circulate before you begin adding primer to the affected area.
  
  
• 7). Stir the primer with your paint stick. Put the lid back on the primer and shake the can several times to thoroughly mix the primer.
  
  
• 8). Dip one of your 2-inch angled paint brushes in the primer. Paint areas surrounding obstacles such as electric sockets that will be difficult to get with a roller.
  
  
• 9). Pour some primer into your first paint pan.
  
  
• 10
  
  Dip one of your paint rollers into the paint pan. Cover the affected areas.
  
  
• 11
  
  Dispose of the roller and 2-inch angled paint brush that you used with the primer. Pour any primer left in the paint pan back into its can, put the lid on and set it aside. Throw away the paint pan you had the primer in.
  
  
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  Once the primer has dried, dip your second 2-inch angled paint brush into your paint. Paint the areas surrounding obstacles.
  
  
• 13
  
  Pour paint into your second paint pan and dip your second paint roller into the paint. Paint the areas where the paint bubbles were.
  
  
• 14
  
  Pour any excess paint from the paint pan back into the can and put the lid on. Clean your brushes and paint pan according to the directions on your paint can and put them away. Allow the paint to dry.