Bedroom always smells 'stale'

[NoNameNoGame]

We sleep with our windows open all year round and leave them open during the day. I wash the bedsheets once a week and use candles (which help temporarily) and have a reed diffuser. I shake down the pillows and duvet every morning. What am I doing wrong?

are you turning the mattresses?
washing pillows/duvets?

Is it the carpets

@finewine I think carpets too.... OP give them a steamclean if you can.

Do you have any pets?

Have you pulled the bed out and moved furniture?

We had a stale smell for a day and found a stain on bottom of duvet but that sort of thing could be hidden

Lots of clutter can make a room smell stale if air can't circulate.
Also you could try those damp traps you get from the pound shop, they work really well.

Dusting can help.

Moved here 2 years ago.

Newly painted walls and brand new carpet.

I dust and hoover regularly.

No shoes or slippers allowed upstairs. I wash the pillows and air the duvet occasionally.

The room is pretty minimal.

We have a 2 year old Simba mattress. Can that be turned?

Could it be something under the carpet? Manky underlay or damp coming from somewhere?

It's not a damp smell. More like husbands morning breath and farts!

A farty smell can often be a dead rodent. Sorry !

In the wall cavity or under the floor boards :(

Bicarb the carpet

Morning breath and farts 🤣

A dead mouse somewhere. We had one the cat brought in, it crawled under the bed and died. Took a while to find it.

It’s my damp towels in the laundry basket that stink out the room.

I’ve since found if I leave the most recent used towel spread over it to dry overnight and then dump it inside the basket in the morning, that the problem is resolved.

@SoShere thanks I will give that a go and see how I get on.

Eek what colour is your carpet. My friend ruined a carpet like this once.

It's pale grey!

make him use mouth wash at night! & give him peppermint tea (if you don't mind the smell of recycled peppermint!

do you have curtains? if yes, wash them.

Do you make the bed as soon as you get up?

A lot of people who are good/organised with housework and tidiness do but actually it's better to allow the sheets and mattress to air for a few hours before covering them over with the duvet. it's something to do with the bacteria in the sheets/mattress and stuff.

Ewww.... LTB .... Joking... Obviously.

I actually shake the whole duvet and lay it back to allow it to air and also shake the pillows. The curtains are 18 months old.

I think I'm going to try steam clean the chenille headboard, flip the mattress and baking soda the carpet.

If this doesn't work, the DH has to go! 😂

Have you got pets? You could buy one of those ultraviolet torches that show up urine for two quid on eBay. I didn’t think my cat was up to anything and then I bought a torch and found she had been!!!

No pets. No kids.

It is literally a stale, stuffy smell as if we never open the windows.