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Something Stanks!

We started getting this smell off and on a few days ago. Last night it was out of control! It smells like garbage/fish/cat pee. It's super nasty and it's coming from the kitchen (the kitchen/living room is all open - our apt is small). We've been taking out the garbage daily, and I cleaned out the fridge yesterday. The smell was there this morning when DH got up for school, and seemingly gone until I showered now. WTF!? I emailed our landlord at 2am since we were trying to figure this out and this should be his responsibility. He usually responds to my emails pretty quick (he has a BB). Nothing yet. I'm wondering if he knows about this issue, is researching it, tired of my complaints (I emailed on thurs/fri b/c the smoke detector was dead). This is nasty. We were close to getting a hotel last night and we're considering if we need to move (we only moved in july 15). Uuurgh!

Re: Something Stanks!

  • Do you have a thing in your sink that sucks down food scraps? (I cannot remember what that little switch is called right now).  Try running some baking soda mixed with water & fresh lemon juice down there...could be a clogged pipe with food scraps fermenting under your sink...
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  • Garbage Disposal!

     

    That was my first thought too.

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  • Maybe a dead critter in the walls?  It happens more often than you would want to imagine. 
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  • We don't have a disposal. I thought the smell might be from the sink too. I did the baking soda/lemon juice last night (not sure if it was enough) and then dumped a kettle of boiling water down. The smell doesn't seem like it's from the sink (the drain doesn't smell). I wouldn't be surprised if it was a dead mouse/rat. Our apt is a renovated house. We have floor vents and one is partially under the corner of the stove. We opened it to look it and it was full of crumbs. Our landlord/the previous tenants did a very poor job of cleaning before we came in, but I don't feel like I should have to move the stove and try and fish out nasty crumbs from about 1.5ft down a vent. I'm wondering if the smell has to do with a leak (became stronger after showering) or wiring. F!
  • Oh gosh it doesn't smell like gas does it?? do you have a gas hot water tank? Scary!!
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  • Gas smells like rotten eggs doesn't it? That's not the smell. It's like a fishy-garbage smell.
  • We opened the window in the bedroom last night and I have a window open in the main room now, but it's freezing! I'm hungry but the smell is putting me off and I don't really want to go out right now... :(
  • Adam had to redo a wall in someone's house months ago.  He found a freakin dead bird in the wall.  How the hell does that happen?  Seriously?  A bird?
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  • yuck! this place was obv a diy-reno and there's holes everywhere...
  • Ah, garbage disposal. Duh. I'm blaming that on pregnancy brain. ;-)

    Hmmmm - well, since you don't have one of those it probably is a dead animal of some sort...can't think of anything else. I hope you get an answer soon!!

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  • Gross... I have no suggestions, just a lot of sympathy. :(
  • I'm sure you've checked but maybe the power went out at night and stuff rotted in your fridge/freezer? I really dont know what else it could be...I hope its not a dead animal :/

     

  • No it's not that. I wish it was haha! I cleaned out anything that could've been going bad in the fridge the other day. There really wasn't anything stinky.

  • Yikes I hope you find out what it is soon!
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    Gross... I have no suggestions, just a lot of sympathy. :(

    This ^^ everyone has given you all the suggestions I could give. Good Luck! I think a leak in the wall might be a good choice since it got worse once you showered!!!

     

     

  • Yuck!  I hope you figure out what it is and get it taken care of.  There's not much worse than a constant gross smell.
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  • I'm willing to bet money that if you've checked everything else, it's a dead animal.

    My junior year of college my friends and I rented an entire house off campus and something died in our walls. It was the most disgusting, rankest, nastiest smell EVER. I actually packed up some stuff and stayed with Greg and his two slightly less smelly roommates for a little over a week! It was in the middle of winter and we had to open all the doors and windows just to breathe in living room!

    If this really is the cause of your smell, then I'm sorry to say that short of tearing down the walls the only thing you can do is wait for it to finish rotting and dry up. Ick!

     

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