Any ideas ?? Funny smell

[mickydibble]

we are getting a funny smell in the dining room.It appears when it wants, and smells like rotten eggs or gas? Had it for a while, anyone got any ideas. Seems real wierd ,comes on Stronger sometimes ????

[xant14]

polter geeses?

[Bulld0g]

Sounds like you got one of those poltegoost things
Seriously though have you checked you haven't got a gas leak ?

[maca]

this sounds like a electrical fault m8.

[Bulld0g]

this sounds like a electrical fault m8.

~~~~~~ trust you to have a sensible answer Maca . Tell him it's a leccy poltegoost

[mickydibble]

this sounds like a electrical fault m8.

Does it?? What

[maca]

cant be to sure m8 but we had the same thing. it turned out to be the wireing on a plug socket.
it was a wire that hadent been stripped propperly was burning.

[mickydibble]

Sounds like you got one of those poltegoost things
Seriously though have you checked you haven't got a gas leak ?

Erm don't think gas leak ,but my nieghbour as a cooker on the wall and someone once said that your not allowed on a chimney wall?? Does that make sense ?

[mickydibble]

cant be to sure m8 but we had the same thing. it turned out to be the wireing on a plug socket.
it was a wire that hadent been stripped propperly was burning.

Sounds interesting. Thnx.

[xant14]

Just a copy and paste here... but one idea....

Ah ha! I had this a few years ago in a little apartment I lived in. I complained to my landlord of a raunchy odor, and he just laughed. I even made him come over a few times to smell it. He told me to call him when I smelled the smell, and he would come to take a whiff. It was months before he finally did indeed smell the smell I had been speaking of. Still at this point, we didn't know what it was. One day a few weeks later, it was really strong, and I followed it to the bathroom. Upon walking in, the tiles on the floor were dreadfully warm, as if there was a heater beneath my floor. I heard a weird sound just like you said, like a car putting or a gurgling sound. I immediately called the landlord again, and told him about it. He came out right away, and tore the tile off and called his son to come over with a shovel. It took them two days to dig through the ground, and found that the old water pipes beneath were leaking! The pipes were waaay old, and had burst. The smell was the water rotting with the ground and ground yuck of some variety. It took months to fix. A crew had to come out and rip up the old piping and replace it. It was awful, I had wooden boards for a floor, and was scared to death of critters coming up from under the house. But I was glad when it was fixed. They said the whole structure could have been ruined if I hadn't been as persistent as I was to make the landlord smell the smell and take care of the situation. I would get a plumber out there right away, and check your floorboards for warm areas. Good luck, if you don't own the place, get renters insurance. It could take months to fix, and water could get in your house and ruin some of your personal belongings.
3 years ago

A lot of other ideas point to the heating system... what type do you have?

[mugello]

Might be worth checking any lampholders on ceiling pendants,more a cats piss kinda smell,if replacing get one with a metal insert not plastic.Cheers

[chalky 4]

Would go with Mugello, Very good chance it is light fitting needs changing,the heat seems to make the plastic fitting give off this type of smell after long use,as it becomes brittle. Poltergeist would be more fun though.

[forntida]

Check any plants you have. Compost might be a bit old. Check kitchen sink drains. Would not do any harm to put a few soda crystals down them. You say the smell gets stronger at times. It could be a patch of dampness made worse when your central heating comes on.

I had a problem with my bath. It was leaking and the water was dripping through the top off the door below. We kept changing the sealant round the bath in every recommended way. Plumbers who looked at it could not find the problem. Eventually the water broke through the paint on the door. Over the length of time it had rotted the door frame. I eventually found the problem. When somebody was having a shower the bath was lowering ever so slightly and making the outlet plug loose and water was escaping on to the floor.

What I am trying to say is that sometimes we look in all the wrong places for the problem. Best of luck.

[krazylegz]

cant be to sure m8 but we had the same thing. it turned out to be the wireing on a plug socket.
it was a wire that hadent been stripped propperly was burning.

i had the same problem when i first moved into my house, smelt horrible worse some days than others, we were even ready to kick the cat out thinking he'd got some dead stuff stashed or pi$$ing, but turned out to be a loose wire in the wall socket was shorting out

[Gumbo]

Sounds like a dead mouse, either that or your missus is disgusted by the state of your underpants and stuffs them under the floorboards instead of washing them.