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Posted by Scott O on February 3, 2006, 7:33 am
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>> Regarding the different rooms, we notice when we wake up in the morning
>> and open the bedroom door and walk out to the main part of the house you
>> can smell it, so that shows it is at least not in there or traversing the
>> whole baseboard heating.
>> No new cleaners or fresheners - definately not a pleasant smell! :-)
> I've owned a number of PITY furniture items, and never noticed an odor
> from them. Could the neighbors have a meth lab? Any food spills on
> carpet that might be turning ransid? Kids leave pizza box under the sofa?
This wasn't a PITY unit (it is "real wood"), we upgraded from one though!
:-)
I don't think it is dead animal, or rotten food - smells too chemically.
I'm really leaning towards this being the entertainment center right now.
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Posted by Bob on February 3, 2006, 8:21 am
Just about every new consumer product gives off odors and fumes. They can
come from sources like adhesives, carpets, vinyl, rubber, manufactured wood
products, pesticides, cleaning agents, fine particles of metal and
fiberglass, etc. Air quality experts recommend that you leave new furniture
and unrolled carpet in a well ventilated area for a few days before bringing
them inside, and that you don't occupy a new or remodeled building until it
has been well ventilated for at least a few days.
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> > Regarding the different rooms, we notice when we wake up in the morning
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> > open the bedroom door and walk out to the main part of the house you can
> > smell it, so that shows it is at least not in there or traversing the
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> > baseboard heating.
> > No new cleaners or fresheners - definately not a pleasant smell! :-)
> I've owned a number of PITY furniture items, and never noticed an odor
> from them. Could the neighbors have a meth lab? Any food spills on
> carpet that might be turning ransid? Kids leave pizza box under the sofa?
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Posted by Tony Hwang on February 2, 2006, 10:38 pm
Scott O wrote:
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> I have an L-style ranch, with the kitchen/dining/living room area that has
> an open floor plan. For the last few days, as soon as you walk in from
> outside (opens into this open area), there is a fairly strong smell. It
> smells like it could be cleaner of some sort, or nail polish, oil, etc. We
> have our oil furnace/burner in the kitchen (that's how they did it up her in
> MA in the 50's I guess), so we had the oil service guys come out last night
> to make sure it wasn't an exhaust problem. They didn't see a problem with
> the exhaust or anything with the oil burner. He smelled it too, but
> couldn't put his finger on what it was.
>
> We have checked for any cleaners that may have spilled or even to try and
> locate the origin of the smell without any luck. Problem is, once you are
> in the house for a bit, you must get adjusted to the smell, because it is
> harder to notice.
>
> The only thing new for appliances that we have, are we just got about two
> weeks ago a new entertainment center and tv, doesn't smell stronger over
> there or anything that we notice.
>
> I also ran the garbage disposal for a while to make sure anything that
> possibly was left in there was flushed out.
>
> Any ideas on how you normally go about finding this or who to call, etc.?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Scott
>
>
Hi,
That new furniture is suspect. Mostly man made stuff with chemicals.
Tony
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Posted by maradcliff on February 3, 2006, 9:40 pm
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>I have an L-style ranch, with the kitchen/dining/living room area that has
>an open floor plan. For the last few days, as soon as you walk in from
>outside (opens into this open area), there is a fairly strong smell. It
>smells like it could be cleaner of some sort, or nail polish, oil, etc. We
>have our oil furnace/burner in the kitchen (that's how they did it up her in
>MA in the 50's I guess), so we had the oil service guys come out last night
>to make sure it wasn't an exhaust problem. They didn't see a problem with
>the exhaust or anything with the oil burner. He smelled it too, but
>couldn't put his finger on what it was.
>We have checked for any cleaners that may have spilled or even to try and
>locate the origin of the smell without any luck. Problem is, once you are
>in the house for a bit, you must get adjusted to the smell, because it is
>harder to notice.
>The only thing new for appliances that we have, are we just got about two
>weeks ago a new entertainment center and tv, doesn't smell stronger over
>there or anything that we notice.
>I also ran the garbage disposal for a while to make sure anything that
>possibly was left in there was flushed out.
>Any ideas on how you normally go about finding this or who to call, etc.?
>Thanks,
>Scott
Dead mouse or rat maybe ??????????????
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Posted by MC on February 4, 2006, 10:29 am
maradcliff@UNLISTED.com wrote:
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>>I have an L-style ranch, with the kitchen/dining/living room area that has
>>an open floor plan. For the last few days, as soon as you walk in from
>>outside (opens into this open area), there is a fairly strong smell. It
>>smells like it could be cleaner of some sort, or nail polish, oil, etc. We
>>have our oil furnace/burner in the kitchen (that's how they did it up her in
>>MA in the 50's I guess), so we had the oil service guys come out last night
>>to make sure it wasn't an exhaust problem. They didn't see a problem with
>>the exhaust or anything with the oil burner. He smelled it too, but
>>couldn't put his finger on what it was.
>>We have checked for any cleaners that may have spilled or even to try and
>>locate the origin of the smell without any luck. Problem is, once you are
>>in the house for a bit, you must get adjusted to the smell, because it is
>>harder to notice.
>>The only thing new for appliances that we have, are we just got about two
>>weeks ago a new entertainment center and tv, doesn't smell stronger over
>>there or anything that we notice.
>>I also ran the garbage disposal for a while to make sure anything that
>>possibly was left in there was flushed out.
>>Any ideas on how you normally go about finding this or who to call, etc.?
>>Thanks,
>>Scott
>
>
> Dead mouse or rat maybe ??????????????
In one apartment I rented once, There was a bad smell for a while, Also
the phone in the kitchen got static and then died one day. When had the
phone line repaired, they had to cut whole in the ceiling, found the
phone wire had been chewed into and a dead rat. This was on the bottom
unit, between floors and not an attic. Never found how it got between th
floors like that, Also found out no insulation between floor so My unit
was helping heat the upstairs unit.
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>> Regarding the different rooms, we notice when we wake up in the morning
>> and open the bedroom door and walk out to the main part of the house you
>> can smell it, so that shows it is at least not in there or traversing the
>> whole baseboard heating.
>> No new cleaners or fresheners - definately not a pleasant smell! :-)
> I've owned a number of PITY furniture items, and never noticed an odor
> from them. Could the neighbors have a meth lab? Any food spills on
> carpet that might be turning ransid? Kids leave pizza box under the sofa?