Has anyone ever experienced a strong odor of rotten onions in just one place in the house? It is not the fridge, not the cat box, and not the trash bin. It has been going on for more than two weeks. If anyone has had this problem, do you know the cause and what has been effective in removing the noxious odor?
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I've had the smell, even called the Health people in a rented house. It was a basement drain that needed a cover. They were backup sewer fumes.
Thanks for all the suggestions. The rotten onion smell was indeed a drip pan way in the back underneath the fridge. This pan had about a 1 mm thick layer of moist (but not wet) black slime in it, the smell of which just about incapacitated the poor guy that stuck his nose in there to see if that was the source of the smell. Probably should have sent a sample off to be tested at some toxin lab.
Have you checked under your kitchen sink? or your drain line under your fridge? I haven't had this issue, but just thinking of other places you could possibly check that you might not have done yet.
Hope this helps, I hate odors myself, so I feel for you.
I came to this thread to find out why my room was smelling like this. For anyone who was still wondering, I found it to be an extension cord I recently bought. Hope this was any help to people having this problem.
I am having a same problem. What did you do to get rid of it ?
Have you checked the tray under the fridge or for grease deposits under the stove? Have you got a garbage disposal that could be gunked up? Is this only in the kitchen or do you smell it when you come in the house?
My two year old grand-daughter was playing "store" and hid apples in my drawers and in jars in the cabinets and in anything that would hold them. Could you have a similar problem?
Sometimes when plastic gets old it will smell like that. I had some plastic food containers and a plastic shampoo cape that started smelling like rotten onions. I had to toss them out. You might check/smell of anything plastic. Hope you find it.
Could it actually be potatoes? I had an awful smell in my kitchen a couple of months ago and couldn't figure out where it was coming from! It smelled odd too. Somewhere between a rotten onion and something that you couldn't put your finger on.
I have this exact same problem!! I will check under the fridge again (didn't notice a drip pan last time...) but it does seem to be coming from that area!!
We are checking the drip pan under our fridge because we had it turn off because it wasn't working...
Wow!
Onions grrrrrr Please help!
My whole house has that odor!
I checked everything So bad my eyes burn!
I'm not sure why the onion smell is in my house but I came home from the store and my whole house smell like onions I think there's something demonic in my house or is there something to Monica my house because of the onion smell
I once had an odor problem in a house, and I expected to find a dead rat somewhere. The day I removed a dried out garlic from the top of the fridge it went away.
Hey! I'm having the exact same problem! it's one spot in frontof my thermostat in the living room.
Did you end up finding the problem? Mine seems to be in the bathroom just beneath the air duct in the ceiling. The bathroom is clean and is also fairly new.
Yah, my room had the Onion smell too but not rotten, it's real onion smell. I found this comes when the room is locked too long. What is the cause if anyone could answer me?
Same here but I have no idea what it is from
Why do ghosts have to smell so bad smh. maybe because they are dead
I've been having a rotten onion smell in my living room and in the hallway. It comes and goes. We thought maybe an animal in the attic, but the attic doesn't smell.
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