Shit that annoys you

[iceman]

Mystery smells in my house. The last week or so I’ve gotten the occasional whiff of something unpleasant. Like rotten meat/dead animal/trash. Each time sets me sniffing around all corners of my house high and low like a crazy person, and then when I find nothing I’ll go on a random cleaning spree.... like polishing the handles of my shitty old fridge is going to do something.

It’s an old house. No forced air so no ducts. Something could have died in a wall but endless sniffing of receptacles and any other wall opening yields no clue. Plus I’ve never seen or heard an uninvited critter that didn’t have 6 or 8 legs in here. I was sniffing the ceilings and window/door casings tonight.

I’m at a loss.

Chunk up a lemon and run it through the garbage disposer if you have one.

Another source is traps on rarely-used drains, like in a guest bathroom or a floor drain in the basement. Once the water in the trap evaporates gases can escape through them. Just run/pour some water down them.

[riser4]

Plugged plumbing vent?

[iceman]

^^that's another one. More of a pain to deal with than the other ones but if you can get on the roof you can make sure a bird hasn't built a nest or some bees aven't taken up residence or whatever on the vent stacks.

[Buster Highmen]

Plugged plumbing vent?

Causes erratic flushing. vent pipes vented on roof are no fun to clear. trust me on this.

[Mustonen]

Shit that annoys you

Chunk up a lemon and run it through the garbage disposer if you have one.

Another source is traps on rarely-used drains, like in a guest bathroom or a floor drain in the basement. Once the water in the trap evaporates gases can escape through them. Just run/pour some water down them.

Lol. Garbage disposer. Nothing so fancy.....

Trap’s a good one, though. Poured 5 gallons down the weird abandoned toilet in the corner of the basement. That might fit, since the smell is always on the lower level in the dining room area above where that toilet sits. The dining room location always led me to a piece of leftover food under a radiator or similar.

And I’ve never smelled it in the basement.... hope that’s it and it isn’t a blocked vent. 3 story house with a 12/12 roof and no good place to park a ladder.

It really doesn’t smell like sewer gas to me, though. I know what that smells like and.... that’s not this. Here’s to hoping I’m wrong and it’s the p trap.

Back to your regular shit that annoys you programming....

[Skistack]

Check the crawl space for dead hookers?


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[babybear]

Check the crawl space for dead hookers?

or the box springs?

but also 2nd checking bathroom drains if you have heated floors.
My old house had heated floors and the drains in the bathrooms that weren't used frequently would dry out and emit funky smells

[BmillsSkier]

If crawlspaces are bringing you guys down, please, in the name of safety stay off the roof.

[iceman]

Man I was up on mine like a week ago, half-stoned, hip killing me, it was getting dark, and the guy had the ladder too steep, that was a little sketchy. I shoulda fixed the ladder before i climbed it but I'd been waiting for this guy to come look at it for two weeks and when he finally showed up I just wanted to get up there and look at the issue with the guy before it was pitch dark so I just said fukkit and climbed.

[Buster Highmen]

I spent a lovely autumn afternoon snaking all the roof vents on our 2 story home with metal roof.

The few neighbors within earshot might have been entertained by my toilet turrets syndrome.

Fixed the problem.

For a while.

Until the rains came.

Now the downstairs toilet is erratic again.

FML.

(almost a p00ku)

[2bjenny]

-27 windchill this morning, dogs that want to linger outside instead of just taking care of business and having no water this morning.

[Danno]

The 4wd in my truck decided that today was a good day to not work.

[skaredshtles]

The 4wd in my truck decided that today was a good day to not work.

Must be a Dodge, eh?

[Danno]

Must be a Dodge, eh?

toyota sequoia.

what makes this doubly annoying is that about 6 months ago, I had to get the 4wd actuator replaced (there's a slight chance that repairing this time will be free because of that, but I'm not optimistic).

[skaredshtles]

toyota sequoia.

Ah, crap. My bad - thought you said "truck"...