Andy Skinner | 15 Jan 2017 7:07 p.m. PST |
Something died somewhere in or near my game room. It smells bad. I think it is in the wall, and there is still a small hole in the ceiling, where the electrician cut a bit to hook up the light switch for the ceiling light my wife gave me one year. I pulled the desk and a shelf away from the wall. Stuff everywhere. I have to clean up sometime, but not tonight. Besides, it still smells. But honestly it will be nice to get cleaned up in there some. andy |
Wretched Peasant Scum | 15 Jan 2017 7:14 p.m. PST |
Could be a mouse, they stink all out of proportion to their size. |
Editor in Chief Bill | 15 Jan 2017 9:26 p.m. PST |
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steamingdave47 | 16 Jan 2017 3:12 a.m. PST |
Almost certainly a mouse. I had one die in an old house in the country, took three weeks for the smell to go- and I was trying to sell the place at the time!!! My own fault, I used poison bait to deal with them, they crawl off to dark places to die; switched to traps and that sorted the blighters. |
Dynaman8789 | 16 Jan 2017 5:51 a.m. PST |
We had a bird die between some walls once, the worst smell I can ever remember – even worse than fresh skunk. Never did figure out how it got in there. |
JSchutt | 16 Jan 2017 6:34 a.m. PST |
One Easter I decided to hide decorated hard boiled eggs around the house for the kids to find….. One of the dumber things I hesitate admitting to doing. |
chuck05 | 16 Jan 2017 7:27 a.m. PST |
We used to get raccoons breaking into the kitchen at one of the places I worked at. During the night they would find their way into the ceiling and break down a tiles and eat whatever they could find. They made a real mess for a couple of days until the chef vowed to deal with them. One night he left a bowl of anti freeze out for them. He said animals like to drink anti freeze because it has a sweet taste or something. It worked. It killed the raccoon however the little got the last laugh and died right above the chefs office. We started to notice a smell after a day or two. After a week it was so bad you couldnt even go in the office. He tried to use these industrial strength air fresheners that they use for big ballroom but then the office smelled like bubblegum and dead raccoon. Initially we thought it was on top of the ceiling tiles but actually he found his way between the kitchen ceiling and the floor above. The maintenance guy had to cut it out and retrieve the body. |
Stryderg | 16 Jan 2017 7:32 a.m. PST |
I feel your pain. Unfortunately, I can't make any recommendations for getting rid of the smell in a timely manor Best I did was open a window and use a fan to expel the funk. |
capncarp | 16 Jan 2017 10:34 a.m. PST |
Tried non-kill traps to catch the little blighters, I caught and released 2 before they figured out how to trip the trap and eat the peanut butter without getting caught. Must be related to Slippery Jim diGris. |
Huscarle | 16 Jan 2017 10:46 a.m. PST |
Yes, non-kill traps are the way to go, and release them a few miles away (otherwise they'll just come back). Found out where they were getting in & stuffed some brillo pads in the cracked seam – no return visitations yet & that was a couple of years ago. |
Condotta | 16 Jan 2017 11:36 a.m. PST |
You can be rid of the smell with a piece of smoldering wood. Take a thick branch devoid of leaves, or small wood stick, ignite it and let it burn for a minute, extinquish the flames so it is still smoking. Walk through the smelly area with the smoldering wood. Bob's your uncle, no more skunk smell or otherwise. And no, not same as incense. Incense will not do it. |
Prince Rupert of the Rhine | 16 Jan 2017 2:45 p.m. PST |
My wargames room is my garage my next door neighbours garages sit in a terrace row of three with mine. A previous next door neighbour of mine was a game keeper who liked to hang his dead pheasants up in his garage until he was ready to eat them…though I'm sure they tasted nice my wargames room smelt like an abattoir when ever he did it. Nice bloke but I wasn't upset when he moved. |
Stepman3 | 16 Jan 2017 4:18 p.m. PST |
One prank we do at work is as a firefighter if somewhere in the city there is incident our unit will be called to fill in for another while they are out. This requires us to go to their station to protect an area they are normally assigned. A lot of firehouse will feed the feral cats outside, it helps keep the rats and mice from entering the station. We like to open a can of tuna fish and put it up in the drop ceiling then put a cat up there as well but on the other side of the firehouse. So then when they return they have a cat running around in the ceiling looking for the tuna. This only works on a few of the bigger stations though… |
Andy Skinner | 17 Jan 2017 8:38 a.m. PST |
Thought we'd closed the holes into the wall, but still stinks. I hope it isn't under the ping-pong table. It might be in a box of terrain. I bet I could use … never mind. andy |