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What is this smell

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Tiredallthetimeneedsleep · 10/10/2024 09:38

In my kitchen. It smells like cat pee ( ammonia) - it's not cat pee. The plumber couldn't smell it. I can't work out where it's coming from. I checked under the sink but the smell is less there. I checked the plughole - nope. Doesn't seem to be strong around my washing machine.

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Beebumble2 · 10/10/2024 09:54

Do you have house plants in the kitchen, mine sometimes have soil/ cat/ earthy smell after I’ve watered them.

Killerqueenie · 10/10/2024 09:57

Could there be a dead mouse in the wall or under the floorboards? We had this problem in our old house and the smell was awful.

reenon · 10/10/2024 10:02

Probably a dead mouse. I've got one decomposing slowly in a hole I can't get to. It's absolutely rank. Just wonder how long it takes to stop smelling?

Heretodayblownawaytomorrow · 10/10/2024 10:03

The dcat pee in my bathroom was teen ds's trainers....

MrsPelligrinoPetrichor · 10/10/2024 10:03

Had the same smell in my bedroom last night, very odd and couldn't track it down. I wondered if a plant in the garden was giving off a weird smell , happens sometimes. It's not there this morning.

changedmyname24 · 10/10/2024 10:31

If you have any football/rugby players, wet boots can smell like this?

LuLuRN · 10/10/2024 10:37

You get a strange kind of fishy smell from burnt out electrics.

Afriendwithbreastsandalltherest · 10/10/2024 10:38

Rotting onions or potatoes in the back of a cupboard or drawer

soupfiend · 10/10/2024 10:40

I get this smell a lot because I suffer with my sinuses, theres a medical term for smelling things that arent there, I get it a lot, toast, fags, cat wee, ammonia, etc

MrsPelligrinoPetrichor · 10/10/2024 12:24

Maybe the fridge thing at the bottom needs cleaning,can't remember the name of it?!

Tiredallthetimeneedsleep · 10/10/2024 12:37

soupfiend · 10/10/2024 10:40

I get this smell a lot because I suffer with my sinuses, theres a medical term for smelling things that arent there, I get it a lot, toast, fags, cat wee, ammonia, etc

Another person who visits frequently has mentioned it too though.

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Tiredallthetimeneedsleep · 10/10/2024 12:38

Also, it's only at particular times that we can smell it, not all the time. Off to Google dead mouse smell ( or maybe not ,)

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Usnone · 10/10/2024 12:45

Is someone smoking or even growing weed nearby? That can smell like cat pee. We had it wafting around our kitchen door and I can only assume that air sort of eddies there so the smell lingers.

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