How do I freshen up my kitchen of doom

[PassTheAfterEights]

Pregnant, sensitive and sick as a parrot.

Moved house last month and awaiting new kitchen in Oct; victorian stone property with tatty, sometime-damp floor boards & general gross fusty old smell. Best cleaning & scrubbing efforts have failed to shift it; it's just engrained in the wood and only the skip is going to sort.

Are there any products that might help to suppress the smell? Hate the idea of trying to cover it up with something else sickly (/likely to make me feel equally vom?!) but struggling basically having to not be in the room :/ are Febreeze plug-ins the right thing/any good?

TIA for any thoughts!

I’d seen your thread & didn’t have any ideas, but I can now suggest burning a pan of lentils. The smoke generated will get into every room & leave a smell akin to really rough weed. But you can’t smell anything else!

In other ideas, if you definitely think it’s the floor, could you put down a layer of bicarb and then a strip of roll out Lino/vinyl over the top to walk on?

Mix one part white vinegar with one part waterm and wipe over the wood.

Fantastic - thank you - will try both today. Had heard of sage smudging but not lentil smudging 😂

It’s so grim. Twelve hours later, the whole flat still reeks. Amazingly the kids slept through the smoke alarm!