Why doesn't my house smell nice?

[fruitstick]

We are trying to sell our house at the moment and I want our house to smell nice. Instead it just smells a bit musty.

We have a cleaner once a week and I'm a fairly clean person so it's not dirty, but I can't quite put my finger on what this musty smell is. I open the doors and windows as often as possible to let the air in but nothing seems to make the house smell clean and fresh.

We have no pets but have toddler so it may be him!

My 2 questions are

• where the hell is the smell coming from?
• what can I use for that 'please buy my house' smell that doesn't come from an artificial air freshner.

My mum had a few people looking at her house, with no luck. Someone wanted to view while she was away, so I put a few drops of vanilla essence in a bowl of water, and popped it in a low oven.
They bought it!
Didnt get any commision though LOL.

It won't cost you a penny to get a damp proofer in to do a free survey of your property. They will use a damp meter to asses the percentage of water build up in walls, but I had the same problem and it was rising damp for exterior walls that had to be treated.

Make sure they use a meter that can check walls and not only wood as the stupid initial damp proofer checked for initially!!

Hope you find out the source!