Sick smell but no one has been sick - where is it coming from?

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This is driving me mad has anyone had this? There is a distinct smell of sick between the kitchen and utility room thar started about two days ago but I can't find the source. No one has been sick, we don't have pets. Have checked bottoms of shoes, cleaned out the fridge and mopped under it. I think I can smell it a bit in the hall as well. Has anyone had this or know what it could be?!

It could be something with milk in it.
Check any fabric or gaps (like skirting boards).
Could the smell be from outside?
Behind the fridge or freezer is another one.

Dead rodent under the floor board ?? Sorry

Gas leak ? is your boiler in the utility room

Drain leak ?

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Actually - if you have sink or appliance in the utility room that hasn't been used for a while, then as the water stuck in the u-bend dries out it can smell really quite rank. Run hot water through everything and see if it is still there.

do you have a dishwasher? Have you cleaned its filters?

I find the tops of bananas smell like sick if they are at all sticky. I wrap tin foil over mine ... I think that's supposed to keep them fresh for longer too ... never an issue with my monkeys though!

I had this about a month ago. Do you have a Smeg fridge? The retro style one?

Someone spilt milk in ours which went into the drain thing at the back of the bottom shelf. I didn't realise that anything going into that drain ends up on a kind of tray above the generator - I'm guessing the heat of the generator evaporates any liquid that gathers, fine if it's just water, if it's milk it turns into a curdled, mouldy mess that stinks of vomit.

You have to unscrew the drip tray to clean. It's foul.

I spent days looking for puke!!!

We had this in a previous house. Turned out it was split milk and only really went away when we replaced the carpet. Kids eh?

Yes! I have a retro smeg fridge right going to check tray now. Really hope it's that and not a dead mouse

Dead mouse more like cabbage

It isn't damp clothing in the utility room is it? I have a particular lycra running top which smells vomity if it stays damp for too long, and at this time of year stuff doesn't dry so quickly...

dog poo on any shoes?

I was going to say the condensation tray on the back of the fridge. DH spilt cream in our fridge and didn't bother finding out where it had all gone. A couple of weeks later and the kitchen stank like vomit.

DON'T CHECK THE DRAIN ON THE SMEG!

Seriously, don't. We had that fridge, and a terrible terrible smell of sick for days before we thought to check the drain thing at the back. It was a decomposing mouse. The smell and the sight still make me want to heave even now 4 years later.

When the smell returned a few months later we knew immediately that another mouse had met a Smegy death. The worst thing ever. I'm now horribly dead-mouse phobic and can't even bear the thought of it. Luckily we moved house soon after and the new one had a built in fridge so we left the Smeg for the new owners.

Just throw the fridge away.

I had this in a room recently. I thought I was going mad. Couldn't figure it out at all. One day when I was coming home my dear child was sneaking outside to 'put something outside' I have no idea exactly what it was but it was in a cup at the top of the wardrobe and had been there for a good while though I checked up there are couldn't smell anything. Anyway, smell seems to have mysteriously disappeared since. Had been driving me up the wall.

Rotting food stuck in the Hoover?

I had this in my bedroom..it came from an old tshirt...maybe i was wearing it when kids were sick but seems unlikely!

I had this with some laundry that I had left wet and put in the tumble dryer a day later cos I was being lazy. I didn't notice the smell at first but then gradually had to track down each item one by one and rewash

deedar ha ha wish mumsnet had a like button for your post! Thanks turbo cleaned the drain it was indeed foul but the sick smell has now gone.

This is definitely MN at it's best for me. Within 6 posts someone identified not only that it was your fridge, but what model fridge.