We have a very foul dead animal odor in our home. The only time this odor is present is after my wife has used a hair dryer. We know it is not the dryer itself, because it does not smell if used outside our home, ie. vacation.
The smell seems to appear after using the dryer for a while and it does not smell in the bathroom where it is being used. It seems to be drawn in from another room. Once the dryer is off the smell slowly dissipates and is gone.
I can not find anything in the ventilation, attic, or crawl space. This has been happening for nearly five years. I think that if it were a small dead animal that it would have dried up and quit smelling by now. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
By Charles from Indianapolis, IN
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Most likely the smell you are smelling is rust, and the dryer is blowing the odor around that usually just close to the place the rust is. Behind or in your toilet, your pipes under your sink has tiny hole, the over flow in your bathroom sink, the overflown of your shower or tub. Do you need a new wax ring on your toilet?
Another thing that stinks like that is toilet bowl cleaner, lime away. Do you have these chemicals under your sink near moisture? These to will don't spread there smell unless the air moves around them.
I'm sure by now you've solved this problem, but I wanted to note that this smell can be produced in an electrical outlet that is either going bad or is being overloaded. It is VERY strong and putrid and you will only smell it after using an appliance plugged into the outlet. Happened in an old house we had once. Remove the plate/cover--if the socket looks black or deteriorating, STOP using it until you can get an electrician out.
I had this same problem a few years ago and it was driving me crazy. I live in a rural area and a mouse had gotten in the house and took a bite of the electric ignitation wire behind my gas stove and fried him self and that was where the odor was coming from.
a mouse was the culprit in my house-after id tried all the "easy"options-washing the carpets etc,i was down to the last task-I had 2 cupboards that you couldnt see underneath,so i moved them and there he was-poor little dead mouse,no doubt brought in by one of my cats and escaped!such a tiny thing to kick up such a big pong!x
If you only notice this smell when she runs the hair dryer and it has been going on for five years, it is possible that there is hair in the dryer. I had an old hair dryer that I used for almost 25 years and I noticed a burning hair smell when I would use the dryer - not a nice smell.
Hi guys! I wonder if you can help me too. I sort of have a similar problem and its almost a week now. There is a terrible smell of a dead animal in my kitchen; I have tried to locate exactly where the smell comes from in the kitchen but have not been able to pin point the source. I have tried smelling the sink but the sink doesn't smell so I honestly don't know what to do now. The last post mentioned something about having chemicals under the sink. I do have a whole stack of cleaning detergents under my sink in the cabinet; I have removed all of them and will see if there is any change tomorrow.
Could it be the drain? How am I suppose to know if it's coming from the drain and yet the when I smelled the sink i didn't smell the rotten meat odour. Please advise. Thanks!
I had a dead mouse in the fan of the refrigerater years ago. So everytime the fan kicked on the smell would return..finally removed the dead mouse and smell went with it.
We found out our shower smells like a dead animal it is under the plug in the bathroom hole where the shower drains out just lift it up and then wash it out
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