Reply #17: I'm sure a thorough cleaning would be required... [View All]

[SacredCow]

I've heard tale of people trying to skip the cleaning, and the yellow nicotine stains bleeding right through layers of new paint.

There is no hardwood floors- I would install either hardwood, or preferably bamboo flooring throughout the house. There are a lot of built-ins and other woodworks, but they're all painted so I would assume that I could do the same cleaning, priming, painting routine as the walls.

For what it's worth, when I did a walk-through of the house- other than the smell, the place was immaculate and spotless. I think the wife is of the obsessive-compulsive sort (she was very sweet, though- gave me some clippings of a groundcover she had planted in the backyard that I was admiring).