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Mystery smell thread....please help!

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FortunesFave · 08/05/2020 00:08

Every morning when I enter my dining room/office, there's a smell which I can only describe as 'pissy'

We have wooden floors and one small rug....there's nothing on the floor or the rug. No spills or wee.

We have one small dog who sleeps in DD's room. She has only weed in the house once and then in the bathroom...it's not her...there's no damp patch anywhere. There's barely any furniture in the dining room...only my desk and chair, one armchair (small) and a table and two chairs.

The floors, being hard are easy to check for a wee...and there's nothing there at all!

The curtains...I've smelled them all over...every inch...washed them too just in case...but the smell is there each morning.

It seems to fade quickly but I'm worried it's just me getting used to it!

The smell is not in any other room. I've smelled around the open fireplace incase there's something in there but nothing.

This is an old house (Australian old...so not really old) it was built (badly) in the 1920s and is more of a wooden shack really.

It has been clad in fake bricks during the 70s but the point I'm making is it's rickety and in bad condition. Could the smell be seeping up through the floorboards from beneath? I can't access the underneath of the house but there is a space there.

OP posts:
antisupermum · 08/05/2020 10:57

Have you had any issues with the electrics, as melting cables can cause a "pissy" smell. This info comes from my qualified electrician partner.

stickerqueen · 08/05/2020 11:01

a leak? in the last few weeks we could smell some foul smell after some investigating and not being able to find anything I looked everywhere it was driving me crazy. well actually not everywhere there was 1 place I never checked the cupboard where the fuse box is well when I did there was water dripping from the ceiling and the smell was coming from there.

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