Sweet smell

[Anonymous]

So last night I noticed a faint, but distinct, sweet smell in one of our bedrooms. This morning I noticed a stronger version of the smell in our basement. We've only lived in the house a few months but this is the first time I've noticed it. Any thoughts? The gas furnace is old so I automatically suspect it, but no idea if my suspicion is founded or not.

[Anonymous]

Do you have a co2 detector in the house and furnace room ?

[Anonymous]

Mildew?

[Anonymous]

None of the possibilities are good, OP:

Bedbugs
Roaches
Refrigerant leak
Dead animal

[Anonymous]

Mildew/mold or termites. My old apartment had that problem.

[Anonymous]

We had that in our basement. A rat had crawled in a vent from outside and died in the basement ceiling. Took many months before the smell went away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We had that in our basement. A rat had crawled in a vent from outside and died in the basement ceiling. Took many months before the smell went away.

Ack! Seems it could be many things- it doesn't smell how I would expect something "dead" to smell though. What did you do? Did you get it out somehow? We've been having work done in our kitchen and now I wonder if something got in. Our neighborhood is crawling with squirrels.

[Anonymous]

We had the same and it turned out to be some mold from a pinhole leak in one of the pipes. Once we repaired the pipe and dried out the wall/carpet it went away. Check in your basement and see if you can find any evidence of moisture in that area. Good luck!!

[Anonymous]

Could be a mouse nest. Not necessarily dead mice. Do you know the smell of mice? There is a distinctive smell. I would say sweet is part of it.

[Anonymous]

Um, no, dead mice do not smell sweet!

[Anonymous]

Ghost!

[Anonymous]

Success.

[Anonymous]

Diabeetus

[Anonymous]

Lol! OP here. So we were had some plumbing work done after i wrote this under our kitchen (there's a crawl space) and the insulation was totally cover with old mice poo. So I'm hoping that was it! No idea that's how mice smell.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lol! OP here. So we were had some plumbing work done after i wrote this under our kitchen (there's a crawl space) and the insulation was totally cover with old mice poo. So I'm hoping that was it! No idea that's how mice smell.