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Help me diagnose the smell in my house.
It smells like dirt. Literally. As if there were a huge pile of dirt in my house.
It's not from the rain, because it's been smelling like dirt for a couple weeks - maybe even since late February early March. It smells the worst in the basement in the laundry room. DH thinks it's from the drain right outside the basement door - and it could be that because we haven't cleared the leaves from it. Buuuuuut I think it smells stronger around the water heater/furnace area. Part of me thinks it could be the furnace - thus blowing stinky dirt smelling air throughout the house.
We changed the filter recently and that didn't smell like dirt, so i'm kind of at a loss.
Is there someone we can call who will tell us where the smell is coming from and what we should do about it?
Re: Help me diagnose the smell in my house.
Not to state the obvious - but have you thought about clearing the leaves and such from the drain and giving it a couple of days to see if the smell disapates (sp?).
Also, is it a wet dirt or a dirt dirt smell? I know that probably sounds like a stupid question... it has been so wet and humid lately - what about getting a container of those crystals from Home Depot that soak up moisture in the air and see if that gets the smell to go away?
That's the first thing I thought of too. And the only place I know of where there's been a leak (thus leading to mold) smells like bleach (from when I cleaned the water out of the carpet and underneath it). So i'm not sure if that's it.
Kiahj - We're going to clean the leaves out this weekend and see if that helps.
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You might have a back-up in your laundry room drain... is there a drain on the floor in there? Usually there is one on the floor that's also connected to the laundry sink.