Does sticking prawns behind radiators really work?

[tenbob]

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

A bag of raw liver was unintentionally effective many years ago in both stench and fly action.

@AnOojamaflip yep!
OP you’re targeting the wrong flat.

My mum had a smell in her spare room that she couldn’t find the source of. It turned out to be a liquified potato. We think one of the dogs had nicked it to play with and taken it up to the spare room. Otherwise, no idea how it got there.

Tuna brine stinks. I spilt some on a carpet once, ended up having to get it professionally steam cleaned. It was next to a radiator and every time the heating went on the dining room would fill up with the smell of tuna.

Yep- cat piss- on the floorboards. Not the carpet. Lift the carpet. Position cat (good luck ) give the pee command ) then put carpet back over.

Alternatively- put them out of your head and get on with your life.

@AnOojamaflip
The other ‘flat’ is a marital home 80 miles away containing a wife and children.

The proceeds of the sale of the flat will fund the new love nest

@MorrisZapp
It’s on the market. Estate agents agents are conducting viewings regularly by letting potential buyers in and then waiting in the sitting room until they are done.

I had THE most god awful stench in my car a few years ago...it was a warm summer and the smell was getting stronger each day. Could not find the source at all! It was truly rank 🤢. Eventually I took it to a professional car valet place, thinking that I must have spilled something onto the upholstery. They uncovered a pack of chicken fillets wedged between the back of the boot floor and rear seat 😳. The 'best before' date was 6 weeks previous! It was 'foul' 😂😬

I don't know if you can still buy frozen mice which is sold as snake food, I seem to remember seeing them in a pet shop once .

A couple of them stashed in the airing cupboard would warm up nicely to create a rancid smell and point to a rodent infestation?

Go running in a waterlogged park with lots of smelly stagnant water puddles and leave the trainers “to dry” on a radiator
I made the mistake of doing this and my god it HONKED

We just returned to a packet of mushrooms which was 3 weeks old and had liquefied and dripped all over the larder. Absolutely stinking and disgusting.

The 3 worst food smells that I've encountered are:

fish which has gone off - thank you Tesco, it was still within it's use by date but when I opened it the smell was so rank that upon returning it to the store, the security guard was called to customer services to take it outside to a skip immediately.

Sour milk - my DF had a pint of milk leak onto the carpet of the car one day. He cleaned it up as soon as he got home but the smell got worse and worse until he eventually sold the car as nothing would get rid of the vomit smell.

Agree with others about rotten potatoes - I have bought a bag of spuds from the supermarket where one has already started to go off. The smell is unbelievable and sticks in your throat and nasal passages for ever and a day.

Prawns in the curtain poles, added bonus if they move and take them with them the stench will follow...

@uggmum I was coming on to post about fish sauce! I'd read about it on another thread, was that you?

If so, I owe you some thanks because my fish sauce now lives double-bagged in the garage

I'm confused. Aside from the relative merits or revenge or not. Isn't sabotaging the flat punishing some first time buyers by rendering their new home uninhabitable?

Get some crickets and let them loose before your "friend" leaves ha

I've heard that sowing mustard and cress seeds across a carpet, watering them in well and then putting the central heating constantly on full blast doesn't smell but can be rather inconvenient...

Not so much a smell, but maggots will turn into flies...

I would really discourage your friend here. Whilst the OW has played a role, it is the DH at fault. Your friend should be the bigger person. And also not jeopardise any financial arrangements and for the sake of the children and future amicable handover a, behave like a grown up.

Another vote for dead mice. Nothing worse.

smoked fish - mackerel for preference
cook smoked fish before leaving house leave dirty saucepan/dish elsewhere
a funny story - a relative came from overseas & another relative put/hid garlic in plastic bag in bottom of suitcase. within a week we were all trying to figure out (other relatives there too!) where the smell was coming from, they apparently thought it was our smelly house, we tried to figure out how we could politely ask - the unintentionally guilty relative emptied spare suitcase & found the rotting sludgy evidence. believe me the smell was unbelievable - no vampires in our house though

Probably apocryphal but I heard of someone sewing prawns into the hem of some curtains. The homeowner never could track down the smell and eventually in desperation sold the house and moved..... naturally taking the curtains with him to the new house 😂

A soiled nappy and some orange skins. You'll get a stink and lots of flies.

I'm sorry but all this 'friend' business is confusing me. Are you saying your DH has cheated and wants to move in with the OW so your answer to that is to have you and your children living in a house that stinks of rotting food? You want them to go to school smelling like that?

I realise whoever the person is, must be going through a lot but this is just stupid and they will end up looking crazy and pathetic. It's worse than cutting your nose off to spike your face.

Buy a steak

Go to fishing shop, buy pint of maggots.

Within a week - HOUSE OF FLIES.

Your welcome.

You're obvs.

Mn need to let people edit.

This is a bad idea. Innocent people will suffer the consequences somehow.