Occasionally I have noticed that downstairs smells like wet brick/concrete, usually when it has rained lightly. When we had weeks of heavy rain, I didn't notice it at all. Yesterday i think it rained a little, and for the first time I also noticed the smell in one of the bedrooms.
There are no visible leaks anywhere, and I regularly move furniture out for hoovering etc, so I know there are no wet patches or mould behind the sofa or that sort of thing.
I have recently rejigged the bedroom so nothing behind the wardrobes.
My windows and back door are open all day, so the house is aired out.
It's not really a 'leak' smell, if that makes sense, and it's not stronger in any particular area, as you'd expect with a leak.
Very hard to explain. I thought it could be water seeping in around some old pvc windows, but when we had heavy rain I would have expected it to be worse but there was nothing.
Could it just be the smell of drying bricks, coming in from the outside? Is there any way I can figure out what it is?
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House smells like wet concrete
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1984isnow · 07/08/2020 08:41
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