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My house smells horrible
hannahsmamma
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been away for a weeks holiday and the house smells horrible, not a 'toilet' smell or cooking but sickly sweet, other family members stayed behind so house not shut up etc. I know everyone's house smells different but i don't actually know what the smell is. i have poened the windows etc, nobody else can smell it( or so they say!)
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Someone been smoking weed?
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Rotten fruit or veg? We had this once and I think the culprit was a bag of potatoes we'd forgotten about!0
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Something in the rubbish bin, or bin that needs washing out?
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what does weed smell like ? i have smelled (smelt ) this before when returning from holiday, same people left at home, hmm ????0
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check that your electrics are ok
melting insulation on wiring can smell like fish going off
(we thought our dd had smelly feet until smoke started coming out of the master switch box)0 -
hannahsmamma wrote: »what does weed smell like ? i have smelled (smelt ) this before when returning from holiday, same people left at home, hmm ????
Think you may have found the reason.
We had the same smell everytime our old neighbours went away and left their teenage son home alone!! ~Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone.~:)
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Looks like there's a toker, smoker and midnight joker in the family all right!0
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everybody denying smoking weed (as expected) got the neighbour around, he says smells of cats, not cats wee which stinks, just cats.0
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