alcazar

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Spent TWO days with the areas above smelling more and more like spoiled milk, or vomit. Had to keep the kitchen to porch door closed.

I've cleaned out and under, plus used bleach under, both fridge and freezer.
I've had the washer out, cleaned behind it and the stand-pipe.
I've done the same for the tumbledrier.
I've washed floors, cleaned the toilet, and under/behind the cupboards.
Ive had the covers off the central heating pipes to check for dead rodents.
I've cleaned out the boiler-house for ditto.

I was just about to venture into the loft above, when.....hint, the utilty doesn't get much use except for storage and laundry.

Anyone care to guess where the smell was coming from?

boxst

Your underwear in the laundry basket?

RobsyUK

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could the smell be you?

does the above areas get much circulation of fresh air?

Myles

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I reckon that, like me, you have a sewer mahole cover somewhere in your garden, and like me, you opened it and found it was blocked to the top with human excrement and bog roll.

Dingdongler

Is it your kn8b cheese?

zip106

Bit of sick still stuck to a nostril hair?

Ellie*

Well I would instantly think someone has an eating disorder, but that's just me and I'm not normal!

ditchmyster

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Smelly sock in the washing machine pump thingy bit on the front at the bottom.

Or sink in the utility thats not had any fresh water in the u bend for a while, that happens to my beday.

dpb

Had that in place we inherited , God knows how many years/ peoples worth poopoo

Tree roots probably


This time I think someone's left washing in machine too long after it's finished

Anyway don't keep us in suspenders/ bated breath ?

Lydia72

Last time you went out in your tranny costume it got a bit sweaty, you didn't want your wife to find it so shoved it behind the washer and then forgot all about it?

alcazar

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Some great responses, but ditchmyster wins the alcazar prize for knowledge of the provenance of vomity smells.

It was the utilty sink, it's trap had dried out. The side in there is used as wine storage, and the wife had got paper towels stacked in and around the sink, plus the chip-fryer and the slow cooker on the side next to it, so no-one uses the sink.

My youngest had googled it and was convinced we had mould growing INSIDE the walls which was going to give everyone lung cancer almost overnight

Leslie

Is there a secret honker in the house?

Les

ditchmyster

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I have a septic tank, so you can imagine the smell i get.

alcazar

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Yes, I can.
We have a "fosse septique" a bio version of the septic tank, in France. When the traps there dry out, it smells sour.....

But NOT of sick, like this did.

ditchmyster

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You sure one of your young uns wasn't the last to use that sink after a heavy night on the shandy.

alcazar

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Nah....youngest rarely drinks, being out of work, and eldest is at uni, not been home in weeks.

boxst

Avoid dairy and use lots of toilet paper -- no smell

albob

"..youngest had googled it and was convinced we had mould growing INSIDE the walls which was..."

this was going to be my guess as well - great big Mushrooms set to take over the house.... !! (dry rot)

Ellie*

Lol thanks for that!!
It's alright if it comes back out before its had time to get warm. Its when it's had time to get partly digested is when it gets unpleasant! Haha!
( I shouldn't laugh really but you have to or you'd cry!)

scoobyvirgin

You sure your mrs isn't suffering from morning sickness?

alcazar

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I don't think so, I think she is a little old for that