Weird smell in house

[Slightyamusedandsilly]

I feel a bit like I'm losing my mind.

There is a weird, slightly chemically / over ripe fruity smell in my house. It's not overt and so far, it seems to be only me who can smell it!

I get the nose blindness to it when I've been at home for a while, but when I first walk in the front door, I can smell it in the hall. Occasionally, I can smell it upstairs on the landing too, but most of the time I don't notice it.

I looked it up online and the way I've described it came up as a possible refrigerant leak. I don't have air con (who the hell needs it in the UK!) but I do have a dehumidifier, which uses refrigerant, so I've unplugged that.

I have pets, who can be a bit smelly so I've cleared up their areas. I have cleared the hall (half thinking someone might have left a piece of fruit in a coat pocket) which has reduced the smell a bit, but still get a vague hint of it when I walk in the front door after being out for a while.

Does anyone have any suggestions? I read online that it can be gas, but it really doesn't smell anything like gas, and also, there is no gas line into the hall where the smell tends to be.

Electrical burning can smell as you’ve described. It’s not an overtly “burning” type smell. Is the fuse board in the hall? If so, I’d get it checked.

glad it’s better now.

just to say i also use a Baggmuck shoe storage tray thing £2.50 from ikea under the litter tray.

So if there are any incidents of the cat peeing at the top of the litter tray side walls and it running down the outside side wall of the tray, it won’t now go onto the lino just onto the ikea tray thing so it’s easy to clean.

DH had karrimor sandals. All footwear was left in the front porch. After scrubbing out the porch, cleaning mats. Going on the roof of flat porch to check for water ingress. Finally pinned down the sandals which had weird foam type base. I washed, soaked, bleached. The smell kept coming back. Then googled. Apparently it was an incurable chemical reaction, so they were sadly binned.