As I'm sure you can tell by the title of this post, the smell still has not gone away. Kevin and Rod both spent an evening (Kevin Wed. and Rod Thurs.) up under the house ripping down insulation trying to find the source. After spending lots of time and still not finding it, they decided to stop because we are already going to have a bit of repair work to do. They did find and "entrance hole" for whatever it was. The evenings have been tolerable because it has been very breezy and in the 70's so we can turn the air off and open all the windows. It makes a HUGE difference! During the day however, it is too warm for that so the smell is pretty horrible. Kevin talked to someone who does insect extermination and they said "it" should be decayed within 3 or 4 days and then you can spray the house. We have been doing everything imaginable to try to combat the smell.
I have gone back and forth with my positive thinking. :) I try to keep reassuring myself that it's better that the creature (we're assuming a rat) died rather than getting into the house. I mean, I can handle a bad smell for a few days... then, I get back home, walk in the door and all the positive thinking goes away. I am SO ready for it to be all over. We kicked the odor battle up a notch last night. I think both Kevin and I had had about all we could take. We used a special chemical up under all the sinks (the smell is a lot worse under the sinks because there is open space in the floor where the pipes are) and we sprayed it into the central air intake. We had been shutting the windows and turning the air back on when we went to bed but last night, we left all the windows open just far enough to get fresh air into the house. I guess a combination of all the stuff we sprayed, leaving the windows opened, and [hopefully] the "source" being about gone, made it quite a bit better today. We've gone out to grab something to eat several times this week because it is really hard to want to fix/eat anything when the smell is so overpowering. So... that's the scoop right now. I know the guys did everything they could so I'm trying to be a good sport about it but I sure could use a little fresh air about now!!!! :)
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Aww Becky. I feel for you. We definitely have had horrible experiences here too when it comes to "creatures" dying. We would search aimlessly for weeks before we'd find the source and get relief. Ours would usually be under the stairs... where our coats and other things are stored.
Hope you get relief soon!
I hate rats...if it was a rat. We had one chew our dryer vent to get in and out of the garage. We could never catch it cause it took us forever to find out how it was getting in & out. It def. chewed/destroyed a lot. At least it didn't die on us though. Too bad this happened on your days off! Hope it clears up soon :)
We've had issues before when we cut out ceiling pieces to try to get to where we judged the smell to be coming from.Only to no avail.Just thought I would cheer you up a bit.
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