Ok, this startet last friday night...Hubby tore apart the bathroom thinking it came from there,, nothing.. I send my Son UNDER the house,,, he saw nothing laying arround..
this smell is bad enough where it woke me up 3 times last night.
I dont know who to call, or how to go about this.

Any help? It could be in the attik part, or walls, or in between the insulation and floor boards. I have NO idea what it could be either... all I know is the SMELL is awfulll,,,,, and its not getting better !

Could be a dead squirrel in you plumbing vent pipe, have seen that before?

Not sure where that pipe is,,,, but omg the stink is awfull even with a stuffy nose !

Make sure there isn't some rotten food somewhere. You never know kids these days. A hamburger pattie fell behind/under our refridgerator one time. It was pretty green when we found it.

my kids arnt little anymore,,, plus I know the smell of rotten food ( had daycare) had the neighbor come over, he says 100% dead something , being the stink is still so bad after 6 days he believes its gotta to be a possom or something

Save it for the St Pattys Day bbq... go with green beer.


If it's something big, it aint in the walls. Recheck under the entire house. Look behind/under furniture for a mouse? We had that one many years ago, was nasty. If you have a fireplace, check on top of the flue.

:bc: good luck, could be anywhere

its gotta be somehwere UNDER the house,,,, there is jsut way this can be a mouse anymore after 6 days,, and not with a smell like this.... no way. I had a dead mouse before,,,, and it was nothing like it.
I have a buddy comming over tonight and check it out,,, were guessing Possom....

pretty big, should be easy to find?

Most overlooked part of the house with this problem is the stink pipe. Make sure its clean and free of leaves and other debris or animals. If thats blocked all that stink will enter your house instead of outside where its supposed to go.

Pipes are fine ...... tank was cleaned out 2 years ago. No problems there

you posted this on MS.com ?? coulden't be 2 people with the same prob. @ the same time

Cool, just another thought/idea incase it was overlooked

yes i did post this on MS,, lol.. I need HELP!!! hahaha
Who are you over there?



Yeah pipes and shitter was first thing we checked,,,,,, lol

Don't dismiss this as not a mouse...We had a dead mouse in our Paradise house and it smelled for weeks. Could not figure out where it was or what it was. Thought it was in the walls somehow. Turns out, it was a dead mouse in a chest of drawers in between towels. I would guess the smell lingered much longer since the mouse was enclosed in towels and the air was unable to dry it out quickly. In other words, depending on the location of the dead mouse, it may be well preserved and well preserving it's smell....I couldn't believ a mouse could make that bad of smell, for that long either....

Be sure and let us know what you find. A dog will do a good job finding whatever it is if you or your friends/neighbors have one.

You said your house is over a crawlspace. Any chance you checked on top of the foundation that supports the floorjoists?

When you do locate the stink, bleach the area to kill the bacteria. Air freshener will just temporarily mask the odor.

good luck!

Not the one in your av I hope?!?

:beers:

Yeah I have a boxer and a Maltese and they sniff the bathrooms,, so I asume thats where whatever it is,,, is.

I bought out the candle store ..smells like cookie, lilac,clean laundry, and black berry... but youre right in my bedroom you really are still overwhelmed by the smell, Think I am gonna sleep on the couch tonight, or maybe sleep with daughter lol

Update,,, No holes, no tracks, no poop.... were puzzled!

OK tomorrow open up all teh windows, and put fans in and get some great cross ventilation going. Air that sucker right out. Then close up teh windows and head from room to room to see where teh smell comes back first. That will get you close.

Do you have heating ducts? Might check there.

Have you checked the vent pipe on top of the hot water heater ? This happened to me earlier this year, what a godawful smell. It ended up being squirrel that somehow got into the pipe and died.

Yes I already did the close the windows deal, got the smell nearrowed down too bathrooms. The smelll just lingers from there on over to the Bedrooms... YUCK !

Its better this morning,,, hopefully whatever it is its almost done stinking.

The smell is not even close to waterheater.. and I did the *Smell test * there

InTheRiver

you havent found it yet??

Do you use bolth of the bathrooms all the time? I have also seen where people have a second bathroom that they hardly ever use and the water will dry up in the p-trap under the tub which lets all the sewer smell blow right through the drain?

I once had a possum decide to nest under my house when I lived in a trailer park. It took me about 2 weeks to find where the stench was coming from. It turns out the odor was the rotting flesh of mice, birds and whatever else it drug home. A .22 caliber pellet gun took care of the possum. I had to remove the nest, bleach the area, and sprayed it with Lysol everyday for a week. Took an extra week to get the house aired out. I thought my wife had bought stock in Yankee Candle during that time. I ended up adding chicken wire around the inside of the skirting to keep the larger pests out.

Being bathrooms, the stink pipe idea sounds closer. STOP EATING TACO BELL!! lol.

That sucks, J... hope ya find it... if it's bad, better stop all showings until you fix it.

had that happen to our upstairs bathroom shower.... it was a god aweful smell. now i dump water doen the drain once a month. lived there for 6 years and i've never used that shower

lmao ... you guys!!

Yes both bathrooms are used EVERY day... I have 2 teenager's and a 11 year old girl.... AND a HUBBY!

No taco bell.....


It is NOT a sewer smell. I know what thats smells like

ok, been dwelling on this awhile. Is your furnace located near the stink? Is it possible something fell down the chimney/flue and is laying in the "cleanout T", (assuming there is a cleanout "T" in the vent pipe). And if no "T", could it have actually made it's way to the vent diffuser on the furnace????

nop,, nowhere near the sink Nor is the smell anywhere near the Furnace.
Seems to be better today or maybe I am used to it