Neighborhoods: what changes from one area to the next
A radiator-heated 1910s house in Country Club and a mid-rise condo in Cherry Creek North hold smoke residue in very different places. These neighborhood pages look at the housing stock, heating systems, building rules and local contacts that shape a smoke odor project in each part of central Denver.
- Smoke odor in Cherry Creek North condos and townhomes
Cherry Creek North's housing is mostly newer condos and townhomes packed close to shops and restaurants. Odor work here is shaped less by old materials and more by building systems, association rules and logistics.
- Smoke odor in Cherry Creek East's older condos and newer duplexes
East of the shopping district toward Colorado Boulevard, older low-rise condo buildings sit beside newly built duplexes and townhomes. The two housing types hold tobacco odor in very different ways.
- Tobacco odor in Country Club's early-twentieth-century houses
Country Club's large older homes were built long before forced-air systems, drywall or modern finishes. Removing decades of cigarette, cigar or pipe smoke here is as much about protecting original materials as it is about odor.
- Smoke odor in Hilltop's mid-century ranches and newer homes
East of Cherry Creek, Hilltop's original postwar ranches and the large homes replacing them hold tobacco odor in different places. Knowing which you have narrows down where to look.
- Smoke odor in Belcaro's postwar brick homes
South of Cherry Creek, Belcaro is known for solid brick homes from the 1940s and 1950s, many held by one family for decades. When those homes change hands, a lifetime of indoor smoking is often part of what the new owners inherit.
- Tobacco odor in Congress Park's older homes and duplex conversions
North of Cherry Creek, Congress Park is mostly early-twentieth-century brick: bungalows, Denver Squares and houses split into upper and lower units. Shared basements and heating systems mean smoke in one unit rarely stays there.
- Smoke odor in Glendale's condos and apartment complexes
Glendale sits entirely within Denver but is a separate city in Arapahoe County, with its own building department. Its housing is dominated by multi-unit complexes, which shapes both the odor problems and who you call.