My utility room stinks HELP

[SammyK]

My utility room s off my kitchen and leads onto bathroom and WC.

I know the causes of the smell, just not sure how to best tackle them. So any ideas / tips suggestions welcome.

Smell one washing machine smells fusty, (but clothes are still coming out smelling nice?) How can I give it all a thorough clea insidie and out?

Smell two I am more about, is cat pee My cat's litter tray is in a corner between the back door and a cupboard which houses our towels. For some reason pee is underneath the litter tray! I have cleaed up but it still stinks, think it is under our laminate as when u open cupboard you get a whiff of it too.

Any ideas?

Washing machine: put it on the hottest cycle available with a detergent containing bleach or a special machine-cleaning powder. You can get one in any ironmongers. Then put the detergent drawer in your dishwasher and clean out everything you can see (get out the instruction booklet for your machine).

Cat litter: am a bit that you would have this in your utility room...

Watching this avidly as our house is weirdly exactly the same layout you've described and we have the cats litter tray in the same place! The place smells a bit manky, but I don't think mine have peed on the floor (though one managed to poo over the side of the tray UP the wall yesterday)

I would be tempted to wash out the inside of the washer with dilute bleach, and maybe run an empty boil wash with some bleach in or something? The smell might be coming from pooled water in the rubbery bit round the door though. That mings.

Well, it has to go somewhere Anna...

TRy bicarb for the cat wee.

Where is she supposed to have her litter tray then? kitchen? livingroom for the kids to play sandcastles in? lol

I would have thought that the loo would be more appropriate

No advice, I'm afraid. But am that you have a utility room! .

Our new house, should everything go through ok, has one: I can't wait! [sad git emoticon]

Well if her cats are anything like my kittens, if they have access to the bathroom they tramp all over the bath/sink/toilet with dirty paws fresh out of the litter tray so I have to scrub everything every day. Oh and my boy cat can also turn the bath taps on and plays in the trickle of water until everywhere's soaked!

Mine are banned from the bathroom, I was sick of scrubbing the bath with a scrubbing brush and bleach every single day so my baby could have a bath without caked on fleck of cat poo.

Sore subject at the moment!! lol

My loo is a tiny room with a toilet in and a step, and a variety of kids loo seats (don't ask), this is the best place for it, my utility room only has washer, drier and cupboard in it, and as I said it's by the back door at the very back of our house. Can't really put it anywhere else! Our back door, and toilet door are opposite each other, it's hard to explain the layout, our house is narrow in width but longfrom front to back, it's weird!

Thanks for the ideas, will check seal on door as hadn't thought of that, and look out for some of that machine cleaner.

My cat turns bathroom taps on too ad gets paw marks all over the sink! Wipe it down daily anyway though so let her in there.

I am at the idea of a dishwasher - don't have one.

lol, weirded out, our houses are too similar!!

op, try this ebay link for a washing machine cleaner/freshener link

I'd've thought utility room would be ideal place for a cat tray

Me too, CCBOAY!

Biological washing powder or liquid in warm water is good for cat pee.

Jamesandthegiantbanana - I have put a pic on profile, is it same? Weird

Right will try bio wash powder first as I have that in.

Hmm, no doesn't look exactly the same (yours is nicer than mine!) but sounds like all the elements are the same. Is yours an old terraced with two bedrooms upstairs?

We are moving out in a week, I can't wait, hate having that bathroom out back, as it really is an outbuilding made of a single layer of bricks, no damp-proofing or insulation, and it's freezing, damp and mouldy! No utility room in the new house though, think I'll miss it!

Good luck with your stinky washer.