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stinking floor

  • 11-09-2015 8:30pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,555 ✭✭✭


    not sure where to post this, but sure will try here!

    when I wash my floor, nice smell of whatever detergent I use.
    As soon as I open an outside door there is a stink of wet dog from the floor
    I dont have a dog, so cant explain this stink.
    Its as if the air reacted with the clean floor or something.


    Any ideas?
    cheers


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  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 10,146 Mod ✭✭✭✭BryanF


    Suspended floor or concrete ?
    Age of house?
    Any signs of dampness?
    Can we assume it's a timber floor? What type of timber/ laminate? And What underlay is beneath the floor?

    Lift a small portion in an inconspicuous corner and investigate.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,555 ✭✭✭Roger Hassenforder


    BryanF wrote: »
    Suspended floor or concrete ?
    Age of house?
    Any signs of dampness?
    Can we assume it's a timber floor? What type of timber/ laminate? And What underlay is beneath the floor?

    Lift a small portion in an inconspicuous corner and investigate.

    its not the actual floor, its when air hits the tiles I reckon.
    (tile floor!)
    no dampness in the room
    sometimes you get the smell from a glass or a mug


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,888 ✭✭✭✭Calahonda52


    :D Nominate for thread of day

    “I can’t pay my staff or mortgage with instagram likes”.



  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 16,724 Mod ✭✭✭✭yop


    Poltergeist?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,285 ✭✭✭Summer wind


    What do you use to wash the floor? If it's a mop it may need a wash too. Same goes for getting the smell from a glass or mug. It may be the cloth you use for drying needs a wash.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,555 ✭✭✭Roger Hassenforder


    What do you use to wash the floor? If it's a mop it may need a wash too. Same goes for getting the smell from a glass or mug. It may be the cloth you use for drying needs a wash.

    might toss the mop.

    re. the cups etc., they come out of the dish washer smelling nice.
    Soon as fresh air hits them, there is a stink of a big wet fricking dog.
    (not always though, but cant find the cause when it does!)


  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 16,724 Mod ✭✭✭✭yop


    might toss the mop.

    re. the cups etc., they come out of the dish washer smelling nice.
    Soon as fresh air hits them, there is a stink of a big wet fricking dog.
    (not always though, but cant find the cause when it does!)

    Wow, sounds mental tbh!!!
    Can't for the life of my figure out what it might be!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,555 ✭✭✭Roger Hassenforder


    yop wrote: »
    Wow, sounds mental tbh!!!
    Can't for the life of my figure out what it might be!!!

    Im demented from it!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,649 ✭✭✭✭The Princess Bride


    I'd recommend you get your water tested just to be on safe side.
    As for mop, I've always stuck mine in washing machine after every use, otherwise the damp becomes a stale smell , and is transferred to the floors.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,555 ✭✭✭Roger Hassenforder


    I'd recommend you get your water tested just to be on safe side.
    As for mop, I've always stuck mine in washing machine after every use, otherwise the damp becomes a stale smell , and is transferred to the floors.

    tis the finest Irish Water available!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,821 ✭✭✭fussyonion


    I know exactly what you mean.

    I wash my glasses and leave them to dry on a clean tea-towel on the window-ledge. They smell grand.
    I open the window and bang, wet dog smell off them.
    I think it's the air reacting with it...I can't explain it but it only happens when you open a window!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,555 ✭✭✭Roger Hassenforder


    fussyonion wrote: »
    I know exactly what you mean.

    I wash my glasses and leave them to dry on a clean tea-towel on the window-ledge. They smell grand.
    I open the window and bang, wet dog smell off them.
    I think it's the air reacting with it...I can't explain it but it only happens when you open a window!

    Aye, it's something to do with the air reacting with the surface


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Do you just use detergent or do you put a dash of bleach in it? It may not be a smell in the room, but a reaction of the air to whatever chemicals you've used and have inhaled, if that makes sense! If I want to use bleach or stuff like Mr Muscle, I always have to cover my nose with a cloth or I get a strange smell that only I notice.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,555 ✭✭✭Roger Hassenforder


    Do you just use detergent or do you put a dash of bleach in it? It may not be a smell in the room, but a reaction of the air to whatever chemicals you've used and have inhaled, if that makes sense! If I want to use bleach or stuff like Mr Muscle, I always have to cover my nose with a cloth or I get a strange smell that only I notice.

    It smells grans after washing and until a door is opened. Them boom- smell of a wet dog
    Might write to lever or someone


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    It smells grans after washing and until a door is opened. Them boom- smell of a wet dog
    Might write to lever or someone

    That's when the smell would hit me. The fresh air. I think it's what you are using and only you can smell it! Ask someone else if they get it. My OH thought I was losing what marbles I've got left!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,555 ✭✭✭Roger Hassenforder


    That's when the smell would hit me. The fresh air. I think it's what you are using and only you can smell it! Ask someone else if they get it. My OH thought I was losing what marbles I've got left!

    I don't mind it too bad, the wife goes nuts, nearly gags.
    we knew it wasn't our dirty manky kids, as she got the smell in her gay friends' salubrious gaff. And they're fastidious about cleanliness.
    And food.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 456 ✭✭peter bermingham


    Ya know it wouldn't surprise me that its something their putting in the water that's reacting with what ever cleaner your using and when you open the door the air coming in lifts the smell. Clean the floor with new mop and vinegar and lemon juice real lemons not that gear in the bottle and see dose the smell be their when the door is opened


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,555 ✭✭✭Roger Hassenforder


    Ya know it wouldn't surprise me that its something their putting in the water that's reacting with what ever cleaner your using and when you open the door the air coming in lifts the smell. Clean the floor with new mop and vinegar and lemon juice real lemons not that gear in the bottle and see dose the smell be their when the door is opened

    godamn Irish Water; making my floors stink!


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