Our house is over 150 years old, we get a smell as soon as we walk in. My concern is rotting wood or mold. I don't think it's mold because I see no signs around and I keep a very clean house. Could the sills be rotten? We don't have a basement, just a dirt crawl space.
By Lucille
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I don't have an easy answer to the smell but I can explain some of it I bet.
Our house is over 100 years old and so I learned a few things about old homes.
For one thing, they would use unique insulation in the walls (anything from horse hair to corn cobs to old newspapers) and homes were built intentionally leaky, to allow air to pass through, allowing wood beams to breathe, which is WHY they are still standing and didn't rot. So you may be smelling year's of insulation built right into the walls.
The healthiest choice would be to allow it to naturally air out as much as possible and not to try to mask it. Not the easy answer but ultimately the healthiest.
The insulation answer might be right on. But if it's not, you may have one or more dead animals in the crawl space. Sadly, cats and small dogs get in but can't get out.
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