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Still kicking myself for listening to that old timer about using kerosene to clean soot

Old Ed told me last fall that a little kerosene on the brush makes the soot slide right off, but I tried it on a job over on Maple Street and the whole house smelled like a gas station for 3 days, has anyone else gotten burned by bad advice like that?
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sean_johnson16
Whole house smelled like a gas station for 3 days" - man that's rough. Did you have to strip the paint and reseal to get rid of the smell or did it eventually just fade on its own? I've heard kerosene lingers in porous surfaces like drywall and wood.
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julia_carter70
3 bottles of febreeze and a week of open windows, @sean_johnson16, still couldn't kill it.
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