I want to add soot as an element to one of my paintings. How do I create soot? [more inside]
posted by ieatwords on Jul 13, 2009 - 9 answers

A mysterious gray film/residue is appearing on all of the plastic in my apartment. What is going on? [more inside]
posted by prefpara on Feb 17, 2009 - 21 answers

accident involving lots and lots of soot-like dust and my bedroom... [more inside]
posted by krautland on Jul 24, 2008 - 11 answers

I had a very small kitchen fire ... but a bag of flour was involved, causing nuclear winter in my apartment. How thoroughly should I clean up, and how? [more inside]
posted by sarahkeebs on May 11, 2008 - 9 answers

Do you recognize this painting ? If not, can you tell me how to clean the soot off of it? [more inside]
posted by Ariadne on Dec 5, 2006 - 11 answers

SootFilter: A friend of mine's building cleaned its chimney and a lot of the soot got in her window. There is a fine layer all over her hardwood floor and all of her belongings. How can she clean it off? [more inside]
posted by walla on Sep 25, 2005 - 6 answers

This is a venting chimney running through the center of the house. We just replaced the oil furnace, so the chimney is no longer needed, but the space it takes up in the kitchen is. So far things are going pretty well. I've been able to get it down below the roof line and then can start removing bricks from in the attic. After that, though, I'll be in a bit of a tight spot, and I might resort to dropping the bricks into the chimney itself as a I work my way down (I can get those later when I'm down in the basement.) I was thinking that it might be worth thinking about mitigating the soot and dust somehow before starting to drop bricks in. I considered misting in some water, but I don't want to risk having a black river running thru my basement. Ideally, there would be some substance that would wet the stuff down and then maybe dry up and leave the soot somehow clumped up and easily/cleanly shoveled out once I'm removing stuff out of the basement. Unfortunately, I have not seen this advertised on TV, so I turn to you. Any ideas?
posted by jbradley on Apr 24, 2005 - 10 answers