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How can I find the source of a smell? [duplicate]
OK we moved recently, it's been less than six months. I don't know if it matters but the weather has been its warmest sense we've been here. I think it's relevant because this smell just started about ...
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How do I patch a hole in the slab under a kitchen island?
This is one step further than How do I remove musty smell in coat closet?.
There was a sewage backflow under my kitchen island :( I fixed that problem, but now there's a musty smell in one of the ...
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How can I eliminate an odor in an unvented bathroom?
I have a very small bathroom in my office. The said bathroom is unventilated. Obviously it leads to a foul smell in the bathroom. Please suggest to me some method by which the foul smell can be ...
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How do I find and eliminate a sickly sweet smell in my apartment with no obvious source?
Ever since the start of winter my studio apartment has been smelling quite bad. The smell is sweet and astringent, almost like rancid ice cream or sweet vomit. The apartment is only one room and a ...
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Why is my hot water heater making my water smell like sulfur?
I have an electric hot water heater that gives the water a sulfur smell. It is only from the hot water. I have heard that changing the anode in the unit can help. If this is the case, what material ...
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How can I prevent my house from smelling of smoke after having a fire in my fireplace?
We have a wood-burning fireplace in our family room. Fifteen feet from the fireplace is a large cold air return. When the fireplace is stoked, nice and cozy, everything is fantastic. When I shut it ...
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How do I find and dispose of the dead body in my ceiling?
We're trying to track the origin of a very putrid smell in our condominium. We have a loft type home, which means two floors with a drywall ceiling between the first and second floor.
I first noticed ...
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What to do about a stinky sump pump
My sump pump stinks up by basement. The sump pump works, but I think its the stagnant dirt water that sits in the sump pump over time that just stinks after a while. I have read suggestions to flush ...
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Who can you call to check on odd smells?
Who would someone call to investigate odd smells. I've been going crazy trying to find the source of this odd,musty smell in our stairwell.
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Should I be concerned by a musty smell after cleaning the shower with bleach?
I was advised to use diluted bleach to clean my shower from time to time. A few minutes after doing so, a (musty?) smell comes from the bathroom. I believe its coming from the shower drain. The ...
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How can I seal an old wood finish on a 60-year-old wall that is off-gassing?
We just moved into a 60-year-old house and most of it was recently painted with low VOC paint, although one original wall is a medium-color wood finish which is putting out a strange smell. One of us ...
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How can I mitigate copper naphthenate (copper green) smell indoors?
Our contractor treated the edge of some plywood and the bottom of some studs with copper naphthenate. The goal was to treat yummy wood at the concrete interface, which is a good thing since termites ...
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How can I locate and remove a lingering odor? [closed]
My parents have a stench in their room and we can not identify it.
It smells fishy. We have already tried changing the bed sheets, smelling the carpet, etc. They are clean I know that.
What is the ...
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How to find and fix a bad smell of moisture?
We just bought a 3-year old house and there is an odd smell of moisture in the master bedroom and attached bathroom. It smells like someone just took a shower although the house has not been used in ...
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How can I remove the old wood smell from furniture?
My wife just bought an old cabinet from a consignment store. The inside has a strong old wood smell that we are afraid will infuse whatever we put inside.
How do get rid of the smell so we can use it ...
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Locating (and, more importantly, removing) mysterious foot smell?
I've just purchased (and moved into) a new house. (New to me; the house was built in 1994). I noticed when I did my initial viewing was that a single spot in the living room seemed to have the smell ...
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What could cause tap water to become smelly after a while?
I keep two glass bottles filled with tap water in a small fridge in my bedroom. The tap water smells fine out of the spout. A few days ago I noticed that the tap water begins to smell bad after ...
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Can I use alcohol for cleaning tables?
For some reason, an unpleasant scent wafted into my room on Sunday, and coincidentally, it was a rainy day that day. As a result, the scent is now stuck to my table, and anything that I put on the ...
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How to fix stinky bathroom sink?
It smells like really musty water, but the water itself does not smell or taste bad at all. Only happens when I run the water, so it doesn't make the room smell, just when you fill something up or ...
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Any methods to cover yourself when dealing with smell during repair
I was thinking of using a mask to cover my nose so that smell / smoke will not get into my nose while I am doing some repair work.
Beside using mask, are there better alternative such that I can ...
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How do I remove fish smell from freezer?
Yesterday, the electricity was out for awhile and I guess some of the fish in my freezer warmed up and juices started flowing out of its bag and into the vent. Now there is a fishy scent creeping up ...
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How to remove smell from new wooden cupboard?
There is a distinct "woody" sort of smell from newly purchased wooden cupboards. Is there a way to remove it such that when I open the cupboards, I will not smell this distinct sort of "woody" smell?
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How to remove bad smell from rubbish chute?
When opening the rubbish chute, there is always a disgusting smell. Is there any way to remove it such that when I open to throw my rubbish, I will not smell it?
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Why does my kitchen sink smell when the washing machine is running, and what can I do about it?
I live in a flat, on the second floor. When we run the washing machine (which is connected to the kitchen sink's plumbing) it gurgles a lot and often produces a nasty smell. Why is this, and how can I ...
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What is the best way to remove cigarette smoke smell from a house?
We're buying a house from previous owners that were smokers. The house still smells of smoke even with no furniture or upholstery in it. We plan to replace all the carpet with wood flooring. We're ...
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How can I remove a musty smell from the basement?
We're currently setting up a basement to be used as an apartment, and are trying to see how we could get rid of a musty smell that seems to exist in that area. While we're thinking it might be due to ...
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How can I find the source of a mysterious bad smell?
We have recently moved home, and all is fine appart from a mystery smell which I'm unable to track down. It's driving me crazy (actually, my wife thinks I am crazy as she can't smell it). I'm hoping ...
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Smell like fish oil coming from cupboard with hot water tank
Somebody has said there is a smell like fish oil coming from her hot press (not sure if the term 'hot press' is used worldwide: the airing cupboard / the cupboard with the hot water tank in).
Her ...
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Find and remove odd odor in new room
The set up:
I enclosed the part of the garage to make an office/man cave. I had a Mr. Slim installed to control the temperature. The space is 10' X 20'. No carpet. There are three desks, three ...
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How do I make my room stop smelling so bad?
My parents keep on complaining about the smell, but I don't smell anything at all.
I've put in two odor-maskers, but they're not helping at all.
I also try to ventilate, but it's almost always way ...
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How can I remove odor that causes throat irritation and headache?
I had some work done on my house in January. In particular: A painter painted the walls, then another person glazed the window frames and finally another one clean the marble floor ..
Now I ...
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Stink in Washroom - Possibilities?
I had a previous question about my toilet leaking in my washroom. For some strange reason, the washroom has a strong, persistent stink despite everything we do to remove it. What are the possibilities ...
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What is this mysterious odor from the kitchen sink and how do I fix it?
The kitchen sink in our home has recently been producing an odd aroma - depending on the day, it's a mix of boiled eggs, sulphur, brackish water, or old food.
What we have tried
garbage disposal ...
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How to get rid of a burned coal smell that's coming to my flat?
I live in a semi-urban area, where most surrounding houses use charcoal or black coal to heat them. Since my flat is on the top floor (2nd), the outside chimneys are not that much above my roof and, ...
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What could be causing all of my washing machine troubles?
The past few times we have tried to use the washing machine, it has given off a burning smell and has even begun to smoke a bit. Also, it doesn't appear to be draining fully in the spin cycle, so the ...
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Why might our washing machine cause our clothes to smell damp when dry?
Recently we've noticed that our clothes smell damp once dried. It doesn't matter if we tumble-dry them, hang them outside or hang them indoors. This leads me to believe it's our washing machine. We ...
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How can I make my sink smell better?
My sink has a tendency to smell awful. A few times I've poored a lemon juice & baking soda mixture down it, but it only reduces the smell for a few days. What are some longer term solutions to ...
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What could cause a ground/soil smell on the first floor?
My house is on a slab (no basement, no crawl space) and every summer when it gets hot and humid i am getting a ground/soil smell in our living room. First i was blaming it on the absence of the ...
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Is basement smell caused by oil boiler?
Although dry and not moldy, my 130-year-old basement has a distinct basement smell that bothers my wife. I am trying to determine its source. We have steam heat. In the summer, the boiler is only ...
