Does sticking prawns behind radiators really work?

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If you wanted to wreak absolute revenge and create an unliveable stench?
Or a raw chicken fillet lobbed behind the fridge?

Asking for a friend, obvs

Cat piss.

You need cat piss. My mother's ghastly feline liberally soaked my work bag and even after machine washing everything in the stench remains.

Would anyone like a pencil case and phone charger? Full working order, look clean but with a vague odour?

Milk stinks way more than anything else. A small spill in a hidden corner.

Bill, presumably that only works on carpet?

Or curtains or cushions.

Really want to know why your friend wants to do this!

A rotten orange down sofa works amazing!

Put a peeled boiled egg in a plastic bag and tuck it somewhere. After a train trip I left one in the bottom of a rucksack pocket. Eeewy it stunk the place out after a couple of weeks.

Cushions. Good shout.
I remember a thread in here years ago where a MNer had a foul smell in her kitchen which turned out to be putrid potatoes rotting at the back of a cupboard.

Some of them rolled under the fridge, or a chicken breast chucked behind it?

Surely anything rotting and left for days will make a smell. I’m not sure what you don’t think would work, op?

If she’s doing this to a landlord who finds out later, legal action might be taken. I had a tenant once who poured sand into the pipes because we wouldn’t let him live in the flat for free after he missed a year’s worth of payments. Took him to court for the rent and damages and he ended up needing to agree a repayment plan for £20k to save himself for a ccj.

@middleclass
I didn’t know if some things would just dry out and mummify rather than go full-on rotting stench
My friend really wants the latter, in a couple of rooms

@Iputthescrewinthetuna My friend has a friend who has uncovered an affair and the plans for the OW to move in just as soon as she sells her flat

So a little bit of a delay via an unsaleable property, which becomes a vile place to live let alone entertain gentleman callers would be a bonus

Because neither the shitbag nor the OW are aware they’ve been busted, and because my friend is going to do this on behalf of her friend, it won’t point back to her

Does the house have an airing cupboard?

Something strong in there would work a treat. Sliced onions, milk, chicken....

I remember reading about prawns in a curtain rail. VERY difficult to find. But what role does your ... ahem ... 'friend' have in this situation? I was cheated on in a relationship and it all ended badly. I had lovely fantasies about the revenge I could have taken but am very glad I didn't now. They simply were not worth it and I got all our mutual friends - best unintentional revenge.

Cross post!

Once there was a horrendous smell in my parents' house which we couldn't locate. Eventually, we found a squished dead mouse under the rug in the living room.

I knocked over a bottle of fish sauce in my kitchen cupboard. The smell was awful. I felt sick every time I went into the kitchen. It took me weeks to find out what it was

Slide a pork chop under the fridge or the cooker. They absolutely reek to the extent of violent vomiting. Which was what happened when my flat mate found the one I’d left in the microwave. That took some extreme grovelling.

How does this person have access to OW flat? I'd advise caution and restraint here. Vengeful actions could be a criminal offence.

I forgot the pack of frozen chicken in the freezer compartment of our camper van. It wasn't until I followed the blue bottles I tracked down the source of the horrible pong.
That and milk. The smell of sour milk on soft furnishings is awful, difficult to track down and almost impossible to remove.

Why her flat, not his? Is it to prevent a sale, and delay their moving in together?

Won't she just move in with him to the unsmallh place whilst she waits for the sale?

I broke a bottle of truffle oil once, the smell just would not go, no matter how much cleaning I did.

The worst smelling rotten thing is a potato. I had a cupboard that was under my stairs, I used as a pantry... there was a smell so bad it made me actually vomit and I have a strong stomach. It turned out to be a liquified putrid potato.

Rancid urine left out in the sun for hours or airing cupboard for a few days in a fine spray bottle for carpets and soft furnishings.
I don't know anything about that though.

Offal is 'offally' good for pongs.

Tin of tuna in the sofa lining