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Odd smell

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Sallywally1 Sun 04-May-25 06:15:21

We have a strange smell in our bathroom and kitchen a bit acrid and unpleasant. Both room have been given a thorough clean by DH, it took him three hours! (I went out!), however the smell remains. I had the oven and microwave professionally cleaned this week.

Any ideas what it could be. We bung bleach down the plug holes over night now too.

NotSpaghetti Sun 04-May-25 06:48:32

Molds and mildew and plumbing problems can happen behind units etc.
Is something leaking behind something? Behind the shower or kitchen units or under the bathroom flooring?
Dry drains smell too.

NotSpaghetti Sun 04-May-25 06:50:07

Could something have died in a cavity?

Astitchintime Sun 04-May-25 06:52:19

Is your electric wiring ok? I did read about someone having a fishy smell in their property that was due to a faulty socket.

karmalady Sun 04-May-25 07:12:07

Dry drains, run hot water down with a bit of disinfectant, like zoflora. Every drain and every branch. Run the dishwasher too if you have one

Those two rooms both have drainage systems and the hot sun will have dried them

If you smell that smell outside then it will likely be a local tip releasing hydgrogen sulphide gas and that needs a phone call to the environment agency, which takes calls 24/7

henetha Sun 04-May-25 11:11:20

Maybe a dead mouse somewhere?

mae13 Sun 04-May-25 11:33:39

You don't happen to live in Birmingham, by any chance? The residents there are currently having to deal with swarms of hot-and-cold running rats while the bin men's strike goes on and on.
A relative lives there and he says the damn things are breeding at an staggering rate on account of the mountains of bin bags filled with rotting food.

nanna8 Mon 05-May-25 02:32:41

For several months we had a horrible smell in one of the bedrooms of our beach house. Eventually we got so sick of it we made a hole in the ceiling to look and there it was- a corpse of a dead possum. Yuk. It was trapped, obviously. Like rats they can squash themselves down and get in but sometimes can’t get out. I was thinking squirrel where you are ?

Macadia Mon 05-May-25 03:10:28

No flies are a good sign.

Macadia Mon 05-May-25 03:52:13

I am guessing its sewer or water. Plug each for a day then unplug separately to find the culprit.

Aldom Mon 05-May-25 07:45:03

I think Karmalady has the right idea. Dry drains.
I don't use the floor of my three storey house. I have to regularly run water, flush the loo otherwise the drains become dry. I become aware of the problem, if I've missed doing this, because of the smell.
The smell actually comes from the shower drain. I put soda crystals in the drain and hot water. The smell clears immediately. I may, as suggested by Karma add a little Zoflora in future. I've not used it before.
Do let us know when you find the cause of your 'smell'. Hope you find a solution.

Aldom Mon 05-May-25 07:46:13

Sorry, should read, I don't use the top floor of my three storey house.