GROSS FIND
I renovated my tiny home for under $10,000 – it was cheap but what came off the walls horrified me
A HOME renovator and their mother have made a horrifying discovery about the tiny home they remodeled for under $10,000.
The pair took to social media recently to document the renovation process of the miniature house.
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"We have a lot to do," influencer and home expert Amanda () noted in a on YouTube.
Viewers could see her arrive at the property, which was a tiny home expanded from an RV trailer.
The front door led Amanda into what she referred to as the "Arizona room," which was essentially a sunroom extension from the trailer base.
The influencer then took viewers through a tour of the living room area of the tiny home, which was clad with wood planks from her and her mother's work.
Every aspect of the space appeared to be in manageable shape until Amanda revealed an unsettling consequence of the actions of the previous owners of the modified tiny home trailer.
"All the flooring has been pulled up," Amanda noted.
"There was a smoker who lived here."
She continued: "Everything was originally from the 1970s, and everything was coated in brown or smells like smoke — which is just really, really gnarly."
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Later in the clip, the home renovator explained that the smoking left a sludge residue all over the walls.
Amanda and her mother could be seen grabbing sponges and using Trisodium Phosphate (TSP) to scrub off the leftover grime before repainting the space.
"So, we're putting the TSP on the walls because she was a smoker, so this is gonna help us get the smoke out," the YouTuber noted.
"We have the whole house to do."
She continued: "We essentially had to clean all the walls with the TSP to remove the tobacco."
Amanda explained that she and her mother scrubbed the entire bedroom of the space clean and put the leftover brown residue from the tobacco smoke in a bucket.
"OK, so, I'm not trying to be judge-y, but if y'all smoke — this is what you're putting into your lungs," the influencer said before panning the camera to a bucket of brown liquid.
Amanda proceeded to show the difference in the white wall color in the tiny home after using the TSP to remove the tobacco stains.
A clear difference could be seen with a faint brown hue and the pure white left behind after the cleaning.
"Health PSA — that's gross," the YouTuber said.
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For more on tiny homes, check out The U.S. Sun's coverage of how one influencer's family transformed their pool house into a tiny home for their grandmother.
The U.S. Sun also has the story of a tiny homeowner's six issues they have with the property, especially with the sink.
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