I have these. had a fire some while ago (cheap-ass kettle incinerated itself and other plastic in its vicinity) and now my walls and ceiling are covered with sticky soot.

the professional removal isn't in the cards right now, so I wanted to paint over the thing (dirt and soot and all) thus trapping this crap. I don't care how it looks afterwards, as it's bound to be better than the present state of things, just that all this crap isn't airborne.

ideas, suggestions?

edit: made a post, appreciate if you can help: https://lemmy.ml/post/24996046

[–] Ulfenstein@feddit.nu 2 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I’d suck them down with a vacuum cleaner! That’s gotta work right?

[–] vfsh@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Just gotta make sure it's a vacuum cleaner designed for fine particles like ash. A shopvac would do fine but I'd exercise caution using a household vacuum to do it

[–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

Make sure you check the manual! Mine explicitly required a special filter for that, with warnings that it could be damaged if you use it for ash/drywall without that filter

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