Help please.........nasty smell in Kitchen

Ma_Belarch

Could it be:

a) Rubber gloves or
b) A dishcloth?

Both can get honky if damp 'n forgotten about

Pooky

You can normally tell the difference between a water based smell (blocked drain/leak) and a dead smell. After suffering the dead mouse experience on many occasion I now know their favourite places to hide and then die are on the condenser unit on the back of a fridge or freezer....it's dark and warm and they hide themselves away....the warmth then speeds up the decay process and smells like nothing on this earth.

Get a torch and pull the fridge and freezer our and check up inside the back.....but be warned it might not be pretty.

Penelope_Penguin

uolypool wrote: »

I think it is worse near the fridge area, but when that was emptied , cleaned , moved and the whole area cleaned we went back in about half an hour later and it still smelt really bad

Has she cleaned out the drainer at the back of the fridge? I thought that I cleaned that fairly often, but we kept getting a smell. DH finally got fed up with it and took out the drain and it was revolting

choille

Is it a dead smell ie a mouse festering away?

Check the back of the fridge where the metal heat exchange coil thing is & also if you can tip the fridge slightly & one of you look under it.
I once had a mouse under a fridge & spent ages looking for the source of the smell. Couldn't find it until it 'walked' out - wriggling with maggots which had actually moved it from under the fridge. Cats had brought it in & must of tossed it under there, but even though I'd pulled out the fridge didn't find it until it 'walked'. Don't tell anyone......

dumbo

Had the same problem once which went on for a whole day, turned out when I cleaned the worktops, I had knocked against the knobs on the hob & had turned the gas on, i didnt realise until I went to make the dinner the next evening, Cant believe that im still here to tell the tale, luckily there are no smokers in the house, also lucky the light switches didnt trigger an explosion.
The smell was horrendous & it really did not smell like gas, especially as the new kitten had an accident earlier & I had convinced myself he had done it somewhere else in the kitchen, even though everywhere had been bleached.

uolypool

Pooky wrote: »

You can normally tell the difference between a water based smell (blocked drain/leak) and a dead smell. After suffering the dead mouse experience on many occasion I now know their favourite places to hide and then die are on the condenser unit on the back of a fridge or freezer....it's dark and warm and they hide themselves away....the warmth then speeds up the decay process and smells like nothing on this earth.

Get a torch and pull the fridge and freezer our and check up inside the back.....but be warned it might not be pretty.

I dont think it is a dead smell, but there again it doesnt smell like stagnent water either, there again I have a cold at the mo so it could be either really:o

Grandmasu

We once had this problem, did all the usual, cleaning, moving, searching with no luck. After a week :eek::eek::eek: we tracked it down to the cooker. A mouse had climbed up inside the back between the oven and the overhead grill and had electrocuted himself on the wires!!!

It really was a horrendous smell, and I do not think my kitchen has ever been so clean in our attempts to find the source

PixieDust

A friend of mine once had a vile smell in her kitchen for ages. They eventually tracked it down to a slimy potato mouldering away behind one of the units! They have no idea how it got there....but the smell was awful _pale_

uolypool

Your all wonderful with your ideas I have txt her with suggestions, will let you know what it was when she finds it. It was a pleasure to walk into my fresh smelling kitchen once I had got back home, keep thinking that I can smell it in my house:eek::eek:. However I know its not in my kitchen thank goodness, just in my head;)

pollys

davidhwdn wrote: »

We spilt milk in the fridge,it went into the waste and stunk for days,we had to keep pouring water in the fridge drain and it went eventually.

The same happened to us. Took ages to clean with a combination of cotton buds, a bottle brush and loads of hot water, the fridge is built-in so very tricky to get to.

Good Luck

Pollys