Rotting corpse, moaning children and yoga

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I woke up today and decided I would start a new positive routine, healthy eating and yoga (as I'm overweight and my health is suffering) I got up early with ds, sat down in the lounge with my morning coffee and could smell something REALLY FUNKY!

I kept getting whiffs of it but I couldn't put my finger on what it was. Anyway... got the yoga mat out from the back of the sofa, Sat on it and again I could smell this funky smell... now I'm thinking it might be me as I'm in a different room...

Anyway as soon as I start the yoga the kids decide to start a bickering session about whose going to eat all the Pringles later... (because I told them they're not having them for breakfast)

So 3:15 seconds into the yoga I just gave up because I couldn't even hear adrienne telling me to breath calming deep breaths over the children bickering and even when I could the stench of that smell was horrible...

I sniffed the mat some more and yep I finally remember... it's the smell of death! I've experienced that smell before when the cats bought in a mouse and hid it behind my washing basket... Ive traced the smell to the back of the sofa where the mats are stored... the ends of the mat that touch the carpet smell rancid...

I pulled the whole front room out, Xmas tree and all, lifted all the sofas (at least I got a workout) but fuck me there's not a single corpse down there but it stinks!

Not even fabreeze is covering it up

What could it be?

Aibu to eat the whole tub of Pringles in spite

A part decomposed rat in a previous store is definitely the worst smell in the world - and I'm afraid it lasted for weeks, (even after finding the slightly moist corpse and disposing of it)

Do you have floorboards?

In another house years ago we used to have rats in our walls and ceilings. I could hear them crawling around and my cats would race around the house staring at the walls. Was both creepy and disturbing. Then one day the power went out, yep the rats had chewed through electric cables and fried themselves, not all of them mind, it was a rather large family and once a few died the extended family moved in. I was so glad to sell that house!

I have to know what this smell is!
We sometimes get a whiff of a rotten smell under floorboards and I assume it’s a dead mouse decomposing somewhere. (Old victorian house) it goes away after a week (shouldn’t decomposing take longer than that though 🤷🏽‍♀️)

The smell apparently vanishes in two to three weeks once decomposition kicks in and they’ve rotted down.

Bouff

@LindaEllen definitely not, it's down the back of the sofa in 'my corner' there was only yoga mats and a lamp down there.

Dh has just got home from work... he's trying to talk me out of the pulling up the floor but he's not yet had a whiff

Cat brought in mouse through bedroom window it must have crawled under bed and died. OMG the smell, our bed is so heavy struggled to pull it out, found the corpse and disposed of it but the juices must have seeped. Used half a tin of neutradol on the carpet and it still took a few days to fade away.

I once worked in a shop where a rat had died in the air conditioning pipes, the smell was being blown into the shop all day long, we all felt so sick but the managers said there was nothing they could do. We were told to tell any customers the council were having problems with the sewers nearby . The stench lasted about a week.

There was an awful smell in my DS’s room. It turned out to be a bag of frozen veg that he’d used as an ice pack and then just discarded in a corner.

We had ‘the smell’ once and couldn’t trace it.
I found the poor soul in my iron. It’s one of those big steam generating jobs that has a cavity to store the cord.

For anyone who doesn't know what it smells like it's like a billion sweating Brussel sprouts leftover from Xmas dinner

Dp is now pulling up the floor

Good luck

I guess he smelled it then??

I had this. Came home from work at 3am to my flat stinking of death. Sniffed the whole place, literally like a sniffer dog on my hands and knees. Traced it to a cupboard, emptied the whole cupboard including the tumble dryer but couldn't bang about too much so had to wait until the morning.

Back up at 6am thinking I had a million dead things under the floor and was about to be faced with maggots/blue bottles found one dead mouse in its wee nest. As soon as I lifted the floorboards I started gagging it was so bad I had to make a face covering out of an old dish towel It didn't even look that decomposed but as soon as it was gone so was the smell.

Yikes.
In Dh's old house we removed a fitted cupboard and were hit with the stench of death. I had to run outside as my eyes were streaming.
We never did find the cause. The smell dissipated, but good grief it was bad.
The following day I thought I could smell it again, but DH said he'd farted. I told him he needed to see a doctor.
It could be a dead thing combined with damp smell.

No plug points down there, are there? That tends to be a more fishy smell if they are knackered, but it is possible

Oh, and when DH pulls it out, the smell will explode throughout your house and you will not believe how bad it is.....

At least we all have masks now

We've slightly raised one edge of board and it smells even worse!

Struggling to get the board up with a hammer and dodge gardening tool and now dreading what lies beneath

You will need an old towel to wrap it in as it might be maggotty......

@lockdownalli

At least we all have masks now

Silver lining

Bet you find one at least.
We had it once at home it was also under the sofa.
We also had it at school. Local authority sent some in to dig up therewas a hole in the classroom about a metre by .75m and deep enough to stand in to your knees someone did. Turned out that caretaker and I were right two dead rats in a pipe. You could smell it in the corridor too, disgusting.
Good luck and if I were you I would be paying a rat catcher to come out.

Dead Rat/mouse under floorboards? Relative has workshop on a farm, and a rat had died under the barn drains and the reek was so bad it could be Tasted.
Cheesy and vile.
Spilled milk products are rank, too.
Did a child spill milk?
You need to find source/s and remove it .. if milk, biological washing solution will get rid of it.
Good luck!

We discovered a dead mouse under a heavy wardrobe once, and the smell was horrendous. I have pregnant at the time so I could really smell everywhere. Once the mouse was gone, so was the smell.