Any dead mouse or kallax experts

[GookledyGobb]

I have what I suspect is a dead mouse (thanks cats) under a built in kallax in the playroom. It stinks - thanks to the underfloor heating.

Does anybody know if there’s any way in to the void under the kallax without taking it all apart? Or alternatively is there a point at which dead mice stop smelling??

When it becomes a skeleton!

A week? A month? A year?

What void? Our kallax is flat to the floor.
Explain please.

They smell for a couple of weeks at the most, probably less if it’s actively drying out due to the heating. You do need to hope that a fly hasn’t found it though...

I think I remember reading that the smell only lasts three days? Have you a picture of the unit?

Yes what void? How is the kallax built in? A photo might help.

Sorry - my fail, it’s a pax wardrobe not a kallax. The bottom “shelf” isn’t on the floor but the sides are built on top of the shelf as far as I can see

I think you can take the front bit off possibly.

There are pegs that it is stuck in to. If you cant take it off you could use a small saw to cut through the pegs and then just wedge the thing back in place.

Dead mouse smell - had this recently - I think this was only a week or so...

But - I found a baby mouse (dead) inside a boot I'd left in the living room recently - and no smell - or my sense of smell has gone!

By the way OP not meaning to scare you - cat I think (plus traps) have killed mice on our ground floor but neighbour saw mice a couple of months ago, assumed they'd gone as blocked the holes then saw another one the other week - alive! They are crafty buggers.

These are def mice the cats are bringing in and then not killing. We came back from hol to find 2 mice and a rabbit dead but the smell has persisted and been pinpointed to the playroom. The pax are an entire wall of storage so taking apart is not an easy option

Regards the smell - it’s especially bad due to the underfloor heating. We had a dead mouse in the living room a few months ago - I KNEW it was there but couldn’t find it for a few days. Eventually found it was gently cooking under the rug 🤢

OP - I feel your pain - in my last house I lived behind a church and churchyard (no graves just a wild area) and my 2 cats then used to go mad bringing in field mice and then letting them go and not killing them - thanks cats!

I've got no idea what to do re the Pax wardrobe if hard to dismantle easily. If underfloor heating and the smell is bad then that's not nice but as it's set to get warmer over the next few days (started now in London) maybe switch off heating more so the mouse smell won't smell as bad. If taking it apart isn't an easy option then the smell will go.

I recall in an old office - warehouse clothing ex building - we had mice there which we poisoned and we had the dead mouse smell - lasted approx. a week or two at most - not best answer - we opened windows a lot too and if I recall it was spring or autumn so not too bad.