Oh no, my house is starting to smell again. It's too early in the year for the annual pollen smell (if that's what it is!) that so bothers me - this is something else. And this smells different - I can best describe it as stale sweat. And I seem to notice it most when I'm in my living room. But, for the life of me, I can't identify the source. Does it come from me, does it come from something inside the room, does it come from something outside the room? Am I imagining the smell? I guess now that I'm spending almost 24/7 of my time at home, there is bound to be some consequences. I wonder if it's also coincidental that I briefly saw the raccoons again this morning. But no matter what I do - vacuum the room, clean the sofa, light a candle, spray air freshener, plug in a scented oil freshener - the smell is not going away. It's driving me crazy, and with the destructive sound of chainsaws and falling branches still going on in the background from across the road - I'm increasingly in a bad mental place right now.
Chris, I both sympathise & empathise - I had a smell problem in Farnham which recurred for ages (years) & at times made me throughly miserable.
ReplyDeleteObviously there could be a thousands of potential causes, but what little advice I have is this:-
Take note of air flow in the house, my smell was finally nailed as coming from the drainage system on my washing machine (which was old) - but I only got there after almost systematically cleaning ALOT of other stuff.
But in retrospect, we used the back (kitchen) door for ingress / egress - so when the back door got opened, the smnelly air shot round the house - anywhere BUT the kitchen (which didn't smell as a result). However when one got up in the morning, the smell was more prevalent IN the kitchen than elsewhere.