We have had this horrific smell coming from the basement for about 5 days. It's working it way upstairs. We went through a storage area where the smell was coming from, but we didn't find anything dead. That's how bad this smell is. The smell is in the bi-fold door to the storage area, but we can't figure out what's causing it. It's Saturday and I called a company that handles odors in the home, but they were closed. We do not have any gas in our home and my husband checked all the drains. Can you give any suggestions? Please?
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I am pretty certain that what you are experiencing is a dead animal. I have had this happen to me before, especially at times when i was putting out traps for rodents.
I once spent 2 days where all I did was look for the decaying corpse of something in our apartment. I did eventually find it, but it was not fun. It involved going in the attic, pulling apart a bunch of boxes, pulling the whole house away, etc
Most likely the thing died inside your walls, which is why you can't find it.
it could also be a sewage problem, but I think you would know what sewage v decomposing body smells like.
if it is a dead thing and you just can't find it, take heart: if it's a mouse, it should not last longer than a week. But if it's a bigger thing, you might be stuck with it for up to a month. The thing will smell until the animal has decomposed to the dry bones.
it's caused by rain and the sewers outside your home-dead leaves and other garbage decompose and the smell has nowhere to go but up and out. try and get the neighbors not to rake leaves into the street
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