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All-In [47840]
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How was my weekend, you ask?
Jun 30, 2020, 9:31 PM
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Late last week started smelling some kind of funky smell in our place. Kept getting stronger and stronger until it got to the point we couldn't sleep there. Think some critter got in the wall and expired. We have been staying at my mom's house for the past 4-5 days, hoping it will eventually dissipate. It has gotten better, but still unlivable. Ended up pulling the tile floor, sheetrock, and insulation from our master bath, hoping to find the smoking gun. Nothing so far. Not sure how long this will take, or if I will have to tear out more sh!t. Pretty much sucks d!ck.
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CU Medallion [60229]
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probably a squirrel, happened to me
Jun 30, 2020, 9:36 PM
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they are destructive little aholes, gnaw into your siding and crawl in the insulation to have babies. Sometimes they get trapped and die in there.
It'll pass in about a week before it decays beyond the smell. Get something to use for the upcoming fly invasion tho.
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I've had field mice die and decompose in a couple cars.
Jun 30, 2020, 9:42 PM
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ironically, in the squirrel cage fan blades for the heater. Stank like, um, dead mice.
Sorry to hear, but that's all I got. More funnies to come, I'm sure. But hopefully some seriousness. I would say, if it's a dead thing, sooner or later it will dissipate. Since it's your bathroom, have you considered your recent diet?
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Heisman Winner [135915]
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Borrow a dog and knock out the siding where it scratches***
Jun 30, 2020, 9:50 PM
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I did have a similar thought***
Jun 30, 2020, 9:55 PM
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Could have a sewer leak***
Jun 30, 2020, 9:51 PM
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All-In [47840]
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It's definitely not sewer smell
Jun 30, 2020, 9:54 PM
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Even had a plumbing company come out and do an inspection. This was before the walls were opened up, but they said the same.
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Heisman Winner [137948]
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You have a crawl space?
Jun 30, 2020, 10:37 PM
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Put the hazmat suit on and do a lap if you do. No sheetrock or flooring damage involved in that. Buddy of mine has to go dig a rat or possum out of his every year or two.
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No, udp slab.
Jun 30, 2020, 11:37 PM
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We bought this place (small condo) last year with intent of living there for a couple of years and then turning it into a rental, to begin building my real estate empire.
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Lot o points [155924]
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You need to have a gas line run to the kitchen.
Jul 1, 2020, 6:41 AM
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They’ll basically have to demolish the house to do it so you’ll find he corpse. Win-win, right 19B®?
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Oculus Spirit [85337]
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It could be worse. You could be trying to sleep in your
Jul 1, 2020, 8:09 AM
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house with no AC in South Carolina in the middle of summer and you could be so UDP that you only have the 1 air unit.
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Oculus Spirit [97724]
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When I was growing up our neighbors had a cat
Jul 1, 2020, 4:53 AM
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Big fat Grey cat. Well one day the cat went missing. Neighbors looked everywhere. That was when I was maybe 8 years old.
Parents went to sell their house about 4 years ago. They found a cat skeleton in the crawlspace. Pretty sure we found the neighbors cat.
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That smell will linger for 6 months or longer
Jul 1, 2020, 7:51 AM
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In college, we lived in an older house. A critter got in the wall and died.
I still associate my second semester of my senior year of college with the smell of a rotting possum/cat/racoon/whatever. That's how skrong it was. Hire someone immediately.
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Hired Killers in Greenvegas
Jul 1, 2020, 8:20 AM
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used to carry a bag that you hang in a room to clear the decay smell.
Coroners use it when there's been a body decaying in a house.
Fireball had a squirrel get in his attic one time and it evidently died inside the wall. We bought one of those bags, hung it up and the smell was gone in a few days.
Not sure what the bag is called. About the size of a small bag of flour.
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Lot o points [163012]
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We had some chemical we bought that got rid of it
Jul 1, 2020, 8:43 AM
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from a chemical supply place, been so long ago I don't remember where or what, but I do remember that stuff worked. Our bonus room was off limits for about a week.
Also had a squirrel die in our chimney one time. Dog was going crazy and we did not hear anything. He settled down then one of us opened the glass doors to the fireplace and the smell knocked us over. Put a cap on the chimney after that fiasco.
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Oculus Spirit [81061]
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You said its a condo.
Jul 1, 2020, 9:41 AM
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Have you seen your neighbor lately? Was your neighbor coughing a lot and complaining about headaches and diarrhea the last time you saw them?
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CU Medallion [60229]
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a decomposing human body smells completely different
Jul 1, 2020, 10:33 AM
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from any dead animal.
Believe me, it's a distinct smell you will never forget. Ask anybody else who has had that experience.
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