Bad smell in 1 room

[Anxioustealady]

Hi,

Please help me get to the bottom of this.

I'm in a new build, and the back bedroom smells intermittently and has done since we moved in.

We put carpet down, but we haven't painted.

The back bedroom backs onto the garden and the cat does use the garden as a toilet, but the other room at the back doesn't smell, and if I open the window outside doesn't smell.

All I have in here is a wardrobe and chest of drawers. Inside the wardrobe doesn't smell.

I shampooed the carpet but it's not gone.

Tempted to pull everything out the wardrobe and chest of drawers, put it in another room, and wipe down the carcasses and see if it goes, if not pull the carpets up.

Could anyone please give me some ideas?

Is it worth tracking when it smells and when it's rained? Or anything else?

Sounds like cat piss to me.

It is wood! It's a cotswold company painted one if that's helpful info

I would be thrilled to be able to tell you what it is lol

I did shampoo the carpet thinking it could be that, but once I can move the furniture I'll go over it again and see if that makes a difference.

I've been thinking about this.....sadly invested as know how annoying smells can be. ....it could be oils coming from the wood if that makes sense? Maybe what it's been originally treated with? Mine aren't cotswold. No way round it OP you're gonna have to sniff the wardrobe!! Could it be underneath?

My guesses are:

Sweet/rotten meat smell: Dead rodent (or succession of) in wall cavity. Is the smell constant?

Fishy smell: glue used in wardrobe or carpet underlay or electric wire

Wee smell: the paint used (google “Valspar paint smell”, lots of builders used it for trade and people had huge issues with their houses reeking for months at one point a few years back).

Hi everyone.

After emptying the chest of drawers and most the wardrobe, cleaning the carpet and leaving baking soda overnight on 1 half the room (got to move furniture across and do the other half still)... I think I've found where the smell is coming from.

The window trickle vent. It smells in the window and particularly up there, and it's worse if the vent is open. I cannot describe the smell, BO-like is my best explanation.

I'm going to finish the carpets just because I've started (I need my husband to move the wardrobe), wipe down the wardrobe and drawers outside, scrub the window as much as possible, unscrew the window vent and investigate, probably replace it, or even temporarily tape it up.

It smells better with the window open which makes me think it's not outside. I was worried because my cat uses the garden as his bathroom, I thought I'm huffing cat pee maybe. I'm pregnant and quite anxious about catching toxoplasmosis so it's worried me a lot.

If anyone has any ideas let me know. I'll update when I unscrew the vent etc.

If I can't fix it I'm tempted to call the professional house snaggers we used, they've got special tools to check what's going on.