If it’s bad enough, a box fan in an open window, exhausting, while another open window or door on the opposite side of the structure serves as a fresh air intake.
I came into work today at the railroad museum and a terrible odor punched me in the olfactories. Turns out a small brown bat had somehow found its way into the stovepipe for the depot’s antique potbelly stove, couldn’t find its way back out, and died inside the stove. Fortunately, I was able to remove the carcass and dissipate the smell using the above described method, before visitors began arriving!
@PooltoyWolf
Whoa! Good thing you found it!
I once had some critter die in my basement somewhere behind a wall. I just had to put up with it for several weeks… I tried to stay out of the basement!
@PooltoyWolf
The owner of the VW dealership where I was Parts Manager contracted for rodent control with a place that just put out baits. A large rat died inside an inaccessible part of the roof structure over my department’s second floor, and that6 area had zero ventilation because prior owners had cannibalized the AC units from it to chill other parts of the building. We avoided going up there for over a month. The poison also killed three kestrels that had been nesting on the roof.
@Kyeh The worst thing for me is when a lizard or frog finds its way into the inboard side of a window air conditioner and gets dismembered by the evaporator fan…short of full disassembly, the only remedy is to just wait for the decay to complete. Ughhhhh!
@phendrick thank you! The weirdest thing for me in phantom scents. I will smell something for DAYS that is not really there, then nothing for a long while.
Currently I am smelling melted chocolate from my grandmas kitchen (she died in '97). When I was younger my grandma would make all of us grandkids Christmas, Valentines and Easter candy (happens when you have over 40 cousins). So around the holidays you would walk into a kitchen table FULL of all kinds and colors of melted chocolate on hot plates with chocolate molds and clothes pins covering her table. Us kids would even get a chance to help paint the molds and make some of the chocolate. It had a VERY distinct smell. I have been smelling it for over 25 hours now. It brought back a bunch of memories, which is nice, but also, now I am craving some of grandmas chocolate!!!
@unksol
Weasel is much less farty than two of the others, but the principal Mobile Stench was a little furball named Spot. Despite her ability to out-emit all of the other cats combined (both in chemical warfare gases and in fur-shedding), we still miss her. She never met a lap she wouldn’t occupy, or a hand she wouldn’t head-butt for scritches.
@werehatrack twixie is just shitty. But she’s old and doing it on the linoleum mostly and I’m more focused on picking her matted fur out so. But it you do scrape up a fresh deposit. Gag. If rather let it dry out
@SpyreFox
I had found a tiny bottle of ozium that I kept in my glove box and it was perfect as I’m a smoker. Took my car to the shop, got it back and they stole it. I still can’t find that small bottle anywhere again.
@hchavers I’d say you beat me to it, but it’s the end of the day, so it’s more like I didn’t try hard enough. Either way, you stole my answer, which means you have fantastic comedic taste.
@Acid48 Up there on the top of the filter? Dunno, you’d have to ask the manufacturer. But CS is well-known as a very readable font. OTOH, dare we consider the concept that perhaps the reason why these are so cheap is that the marketplace turned up its collective nose at this bit of vulgar gauchery?
@narfcake On the whole (not the hole), healthy cats tend to smell nice, kind of like a beeswax candle. Much better than most dogs.
If the litterbox smells bad, that’s the fault of their serfs “owners.” Although I admit their breath can be pretty bad.
Fricken all of the things. Candles, incense, room spray (good quality!), Baking soda in the carpet, shampoo all the fabrics, disinfect all the things, if all else fails…Just burn it.
@BreezyT
When you come right down to it, there are very few personal problems that cannot be solved with 5 gallons of gas and a road flare. It may not be the best solution, but it’s usually very, very effective.
The challenging one is - what if it’s a co-worker? I’ve had that situation in a couple of different jobs. It’s really tricky to resolve without hard feelings.
@Kyeh
Worse when it’s a customer. We had a gal come in reeking of so much perfume that the assistant manager was having a hard time not saying “You know, ma’am, it’s customary to get more than one application per bottle.”
@werehatrack One place I worked had a sales guy who only showed up occasionally, but if he did you knew as soon as you entered the building - his aftershave was that strong!
@Kyeh
I know the pain, I had a co-worker who was so fond of using Every Goddamn Thing Axe Makes that he drove me right out of the company motel room on a sales trip.
Crop dusting is an art.
@yakkoTDI #driveby
Find out what is causing it and get rid of it.
@cengland0
Right - find the source!
Then if it’s left traces on something washable, H2O2 works well for deodorizing things.
@cengland0 @Kyeh My brain still reads that formula as dihydrogen dioxide, rather than peroxide.
@cengland0 @PooltoyWolf
and you know you need to rinse afterwards with dihydrogen monoxide, of course!
@cengland0 @Kyeh Yep hahahaha
Generate them.
If it’s bad enough, a box fan in an open window, exhausting, while another open window or door on the opposite side of the structure serves as a fresh air intake.
I came into work today at the railroad museum and a terrible odor punched me in the olfactories. Turns out a small brown bat had somehow found its way into the stovepipe for the depot’s antique potbelly stove, couldn’t find its way back out, and died inside the stove. Fortunately, I was able to remove the carcass and dissipate the smell using the above described method, before visitors began arriving!
@PooltoyWolf
Whoa! Good thing you found it!
I once had some critter die in my basement somewhere behind a wall. I just had to put up with it for several weeks… I tried to stay out of the basement!
@PooltoyWolf
The owner of the VW dealership where I was Parts Manager contracted for rodent control with a place that just put out baits. A large rat died inside an inaccessible part of the roof structure over my department’s second floor, and that6 area had zero ventilation because prior owners had cannibalized the AC units from it to chill other parts of the building. We avoided going up there for over a month. The poison also killed three kestrels that had been nesting on the roof.
@Kyeh The worst thing for me is when a lizard or frog finds its way into the inboard side of a window air conditioner and gets dismembered by the evaporator fan…short of full disassembly, the only remedy is to just wait for the decay to complete. Ughhhhh!
@werehatrack Good grief!
@PooltoyWolf
Having had covid and not fully regained my sense of smell it is not an issue
@tinamarie1974
A silver lining to having Covid, huh?
@Kyeh kind of, but there are so many wonderful scents I cannot smell
@tinamarie1974
I hope it comes back eventually. Has it affected your sense of taste?
@Kyeh yup!!! It is slowly coming back. I am just not patient, as I had covid 5 months ago
@tinamarie1974 Here’s wishing you bad smells in your future (probably the first you will notice), followed shortly by the pleasant ones you miss.
@phendrick thank you!
The weirdest thing for me in phantom scents. I will smell something for DAYS that is not really there, then nothing for a long while.
Currently I am smelling melted chocolate from my grandmas kitchen (she died in '97). When I was younger my grandma would make all of us grandkids Christmas, Valentines and Easter candy (happens when you have over 40 cousins). So around the holidays you would walk into a kitchen table FULL of all kinds and colors of melted chocolate on hot plates with chocolate molds and clothes pins covering her table. Us kids would even get a chance to help paint the molds and make some of the chocolate. It had a VERY distinct smell. I have been smelling it for over 25 hours now. It brought back a bunch of memories, which is nice, but also, now I am craving some of grandmas chocolate!!!
@phendrick @tinamarie1974
Oh, yummm! Nice that at least your phantom smells are so good!
Eliminate the source and then run the exhaust vent FTW. Anything less is just layering more stench on top.
@werehatrack thought you liked your lapweasel?
@unksol
Weasel is much less farty than two of the others, but the principal Mobile Stench was a little furball named Spot. Despite her ability to out-emit all of the other cats combined (both in chemical warfare gases and in fur-shedding), we still miss her. She never met a lap she wouldn’t occupy, or a hand she wouldn’t head-butt for scritches.
@werehatrack twixie is just shitty. But she’s old and doing it on the linoleum mostly and I’m more focused on picking her matted fur out so. But it you do scrape up a fresh deposit. Gag. If rather let it dry out
Find and eliminate the source. For transient odors like from cooking: Ozium and circulation. Sparingly.
@SpyreFox Ozium is really does work well, and it’s not overpowering, like a lot of deodorizers. I can’t stand scented stuff.
@SpyreFox
I had found a tiny bottle of ozium that I kept in my glove box and it was perfect as I’m a smoker. Took my car to the shop, got it back and they stole it. I still can’t find that small bottle anywhere again.
Breath through my mouth.
@awk but that’s what’s causing the smells in the first place…
Cover it up with a worse smell.
Take a shower.
@hchavers I’d say you beat me to it, but it’s the end of the day, so it’s more like I didn’t try hard enough. Either way, you stole my answer, which means you have fantastic comedic taste.
bro why do they got comic sans on this thing
@Acid48 Up there on the top of the filter? Dunno, you’d have to ask the manufacturer. But CS is well-known as a very readable font. OTOH, dare we consider the concept that perhaps the reason why these are so cheap is that the marketplace turned up its collective nose at this bit of vulgar gauchery?
While you ponder this Critical Issue, here’s a humorous T-shirt design for you.
@Acid48
Light a match
“Just wallow in it” cracked me up!
@narfcake On the whole (not the hole), healthy cats tend to smell nice, kind of like a beeswax candle. Much better than most dogs.
If the litterbox smells bad, that’s the fault of their
serfs“owners.” Although I admit their breath can be pretty bad.Sage, clean the house, diffuser with lavender or peppermint oil. Done
Blame the dog
Open a window
Open a window.
Ozone Generator.
Fricken all of the things. Candles, incense, room spray (good quality!), Baking soda in the carpet, shampoo all the fabrics, disinfect all the things, if all else fails…Just burn it.
@BreezyT
When you come right down to it, there are very few personal problems that cannot be solved with 5 gallons of gas and a road flare. It may not be the best solution, but it’s usually very, very effective.
I clean the fucking nasty smell
Apply deodorant
@zinimusprime
Most of them contain stenches of their own that are worse.
The challenging one is - what if it’s a co-worker? I’ve had that situation in a couple of different jobs. It’s really tricky to resolve without hard feelings.
@Kyeh
Worse when it’s a customer. We had a gal come in reeking of so much perfume that the assistant manager was having a hard time not saying “You know, ma’am, it’s customary to get more than one application per bottle.”
@werehatrack
One place I worked had a sales guy who only showed up occasionally, but if he did you knew as soon as you entered the building - his aftershave was that strong!
@Kyeh
I know the pain, I had a co-worker who was so fond of using Every Goddamn Thing Axe Makes that he drove me right out of the company motel room on a sales trip.
@werehatrack Aarrgh! I’ve had the opposite problem too, though - people with strong B.O. and poor bathing habits.