There's a stench in my room

In my sitting room. About ten days ago I did discover an orange that had gone furry and blue. But it was thrown away. I've torn the room apart looking for other mouldy fruit, but no sign. I keep the window open, I used Fabreeze, and burned insense sticks, but the place reeks of mouldy fruit! I moved all the furniture, thinking that my boyfriend may have left a pomegranite or whatever hipster fruit he's into lately, or my cats may have secreted away a kill somewhere (it doesn't smell as bad as rotting flesh though). Help me boardsies!

EIREAROEIRE

steam clean the sofa

osarusan

Change your clothes.

Keane2baMused

Could there be a dead rat somewhere?

Honestly it's a smell that is unforgettable.

Although they don't smell like fruit

Barry Badrinath

Check under the floorboards.

your fella might gave stashed a body somewhere.

Dave0301

Any liquids like orange juice or milk spilled on the carpets and not cleaned?

We don't have a sofa.

I thought it might be me, but it turns out I smell differently offensive.

It's definitely not a rotten kill. I know the smell. As you said, it's very unforgettable.

I think it's the lingering smell of the furry orange! Anyone experienced such a thing before?

looksee

Sometimes smells can play tricks on you. Are you sure one of the cats hasn't peed in the room? Though tbh I would think a combination of fabreeze and incense would leave a very dodgy smell

degsie

Get rid of the hibster, period.

Fleawuss

Kill it with fire!

Del2005

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We don't have a sofa.

Check the backs and inside of any furniture that you do have.

Where did you find the rotten orange? Spraying Fabreze and similar only gets to the surface, you'll need to scrub the place where the orange was.

looksee

looksee wrote: »

Sometimes smells can play tricks on you. Are you sure one of the cats hasn't peed in the room? Though tbh I would think a combination of fabreeze and incense would leave a very dodgy smell

Definitely not a cat smell! Also I hate using Fabreeze and insense! As a budgie owner all my life, only been without birds two months, using those two things doesn't sit easy. If they are fatal to birds then we probably shouldn't be breathing it either. But the smell is overwhelming!

Del2005

Del2005 wrote: »

Check the backs and inside of any furniture that you do have.

Where did you find the rotten orange? Spraying Fabreze and similar only gets to the surface, you'll need to scrub the place where the orange was.

On the floor, but it was inside a plastic bag. I will scrub the carpet there though - thanks!

Lurkio

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I think it's the lingering smell of the furry orange! Anyone experienced such a thing before?

I haven't but I heard a few women talking about it once. They got quiet when they saw me sitting there, but before that I distinctly remember one of them saying there was a cream that both soothed and cured it.

AnonoBoy

Buy a new house.

Hopefully the stench won't follow you like those ghosts in Poltergeist 2.

What's the deal with the Poltergeist films anyway? Why were they called Poltergeist - it wasn't a f*cking Poltergeist, it was just ordinary ghosts of the indian burial ground or whatever.

Keane2baMused

Lurkio wrote: »

I haven't but I heard a few women talking about it once. They got quiet when they saw me sitting there, but before that I distinctly remember one of them saying there was a cream that both soothed and cured it.

Did you take their advice and get the cream?

Lurkio

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Buy a new house.

Hopefully the stench won't follow you like those ghosts in Poltergeist 2.

What's the deal with the Poltergeist films anyway? Why were they called Poltergeist - it wasn't a f*cking Poltergeist, it was just ordinary ghosts of the indian burial ground or whatever.

It was poltergeist-like at the start. They never renamed the movie after people watched the whole thing.

JupiterKid

OP - did you check down the sides/under the cushions of your chairs. Sounds like something is still lurking around.

Scented candles - like the Glade ones - are good for getting rid of bad odours.

MarkAnthony

JupiterKid wrote: »

OP - did you check down the sides/under the cushions of your chairs. Sounds like something is still lurking around.

Scented candles - like the Glade ones - are good for getting rid of bad odours.

Especially if they tip over and burn the house down.

mmmmm... BBQ.

The Sidewards Man

Burn it down, do insurance claim.

Ohbethehokey

Check if the hipster **** in the corner.

ToddyDoody

Do the shake n vac to put the freshness in again.

MilesMorales1

Well la di da Mr/Ms I have a boyfriend.

Stigura

Budgese; Can't help ye with the oranges ~ nasty things. But, I did once steam some sprout peelings. Then put them away in a cupboard to cool. Intending to give them to the Dogs later.

Month later, I too was wrecking my head and posting about this nauseating stench in my kitchen ..... Opening that cupboard was like the shower scene in Psycho!

Some time later, I had another funky smell in the kitchen. Opening the drawer, to find this maggot riddled dead rat was just ..... well ...

But, yeah; Brussel Sprouts, FTW.

JupiterKid

JupiterKid wrote: »

OP - did you check down the sides/under the cushions of your chairs. Sounds like something is still lurking around.

Scented candles - like the Glade ones - are good for getting rid of bad odours.

I did, I checked every crevice. Those scented candles are not any better for breathing in than Fabreeze! In fact they are full of poison. (Says the girl who let an orange go mouldy on her floor)

Stigura

Stigura wrote: »

Budgese; Can't help ye with the oranges ~ nasty things. But, I did once steam some sprout peelings. Then put them away in a cupboard to cool. Intending to give them to the Dogs later.

Month later, I too was wrecking my head and posting about this nauseating stench in my kitchen ..... Opening that cupboard was like the shower scene in Psycho!

Some time later, I had another funky smell in the kitchen. Opening the drawer, to find this maggot riddled dead rat was just ..... well ...

But, yeah; Brussel Sprouts, FTW.

Me and you should be housemates.

MilesMorales1

MilesMorales1 wrote: »

Well la di da Mr/Ms I have a boyfriend.

Which would be cooler? Mr or Mrs?

AnonoBoy

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Buy a new house.

Hopefully the stench won't follow you like those ghosts in Poltergeist 2.

What's the deal with the Poltergeist films anyway? Why were they called Poltergeist - it wasn't a f*cking Poltergeist, it was just ordinary ghosts of the indian burial ground or whatever.

Apparently poltergeists kill the bird first. I had four birds yet the ' geist threw a fork at my housemate. Never came near the gang. I wouldn't have either. That budgie gang was badass!

Ruu

I find shouting gets rid of stubborn stains and stenches.

cocaliquid

Op your just filthy as you said there stuff rotten and animals pissing in your room just learn to live with bad smells .

Cathy.C

Empty a bottle of white distilled vinegar into a bowl and leave the bowl in the room for 48 hours.

Put some in a spray bottle also and spray at a few points throughout the room.

Place will smell of vinegar for a day or so but all other odors will be gone.

Keane2baMused

You could try putting baking soda on the carpet where it was. Leave for the day and then Hoover it up.

It's great for soaking up smells, even in smelly man shoes

Mountainsandh

Onions cut off into halves or quarters in a bowl left in the room overnight.
Then your room smells of someone's bad breath, no more of rotten orange.

MilesMorales1

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Which would be cooler? Mr or Mrs?

Why not both?

ectoraige

The smell could be lingering in your nostril hairs. Snorting bleach should sort it, ignore the warnings on the bottle. If that doesn't work, try burning down the property as others have advised.

biko

Spray everything with petrol or white vinegar.

Sprog 4

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the lingering smell of the furry orange

Sounds like a Nancy Drew novel.

RoyalMarine

Cook a BBQ in the sitting room.

Cee-Jay-Cee

Change your knickers, the smell is clearly coming from yourself.

Failing that, cut an onion in half and leave it in the room for a day or so. It will soak up all the bad odours in the room.

SEPT 23 1989

can other people smell it?

cowboyBuilder

I remember when I was a kid we had a stench under our stairs, that got progressively worse ... at one stage it smelt like gas so we called Bord Gais and a man came out with a sensor - he couldn't find any gas but told me it was most likely a mouse that had died under the floorboards.

So before we removed the floorboards we cleared out all the stuff under the stairs including a bag of plastic bags we kept under the stairs - then the smell got stronger .. so strong in fact I retched and had to leave the room .. turned out it was some chicken my mam had bought and mistook the bag as empty and stuck it with the empties.

This had been weeks earlier , to say the smell was vile would be an understatement , it attacked my nose, instant nausea and retching,
It was worse then ****,vomit,rotten eggs .. whatever .. it actually hurt to get a whiff ..

I had to mask up and didn't even put it in the outside bin, it would just stink up the garden and the bin would probably be unusable - so we sold it to KFC

But seriously, it was sooo ****ing bad, had to bury it ... deep.

maudgonner

I feel your pain cowboy. I moved into a flat years ago where the previous occupiers had fallen out with the landlord and been evicted. They left a parting gift: chunks of raw chicken stuffed down the back of the hot water cylinder. The stench was vile! They had to take out the tank to get them all, but the smell lingered for weeks. Horrible.


I also worked in an office once where we had a bad smell that we couldn't quite identify. We figured something must be dead in the ceiling/floor, but weren't sure. It took a few days before one of the guys found it - a plug hadn't been properly pushed into the socket and the prongs had heated up, melting the plastic covering. Lucky all that was caused was a bad smell, really.

AnonoBoy

Lurkio wrote: »

It was poltergeist-like at the start. They never renamed the movie after people watched the whole thing.

Yeah but it didn't turn out to be a poltergeist in the end! And then they kept the name for the sequels.

What did people say? "Oh let's go see Poltergeist 2 the film about ghosts that aren't poltergeists."

It's preposterous I tell you. Preposterous!

ectoraige

Another thought: have you looked at the ceiling?

There's a chance that a leopard may have left the carcass of one of its recent kills hanging from the light fittings. This is especially likely if you have vaulted ceilings and a large chandelier. Also, are there any vents leading from the bathroom? If so, check the bathtub for a possible decomposing body left in the water by an alligator or suchlike.

ectoraige

maudgonner wrote: »

I feel your pain cowboy. I moved into a flat years ago where the previous occupiers had fallen out with the landlord and been evicted. They left a parting gift: chunks of raw chicken stuffed down the back of the hot water cylinder. The stench was vile! They had to take out the tank to get them all, but the smell lingered for weeks. Horrible.

Prawns in the curtain poles is another jolly revenge prank.

BOHSBOHS

nuke the site from orbit - its the only way to be sure!

Cee-Jay-Cee

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

Change your knickers, the smell is clearly coming from yourself.

Failing that, cut an onion in half and leave it in the room for a day or so. It will soak up all the bad odours in the room.

I'm impressed you knew I was a woman. Usually get mistaken for a man, based on being a bit of a dick online!

I know the smell of rotting animal. I grew up in Wexford! It's not rotting animal smell. It's rotten fruit!

My friend Mark had a rat in his dump of a house. Being scared of it, he laid out poison. It died behind his fridge. Of course only it after started rotting we could track the stench. His housemate removed it, us upstairs a bit stoned in hysterics laughing. Guy was shouting in his norn iron accent "f**king animal!" and retching. Thing had maggots. The smell was as others said, unforgettable.

SEPT 23 1989

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

can other people smell it?

Yeah, I only let one other person in here but he can smell it! I don't think the cats care.

ectoraige

ectoraige wrote: »

Another thought: have you looked at the ceiling?

There's a chance that a leopard may have left the carcass of one of its recent kills hanging from the light fittings. This is especially likely if you have vaulted ceilings and a large chandelier. Also, are there any vents leading from the bathroom? If so, check the bathtub for a possible decomposing body left in the water by an alligator or suchlike.

My alligator and leopard know better, really you shouldn't keep them pets if you can't train them.

ectoraige

ectoraige wrote: »

Prawns in the curtain poles is another jolly revenge prank.

I didn't need to leave disgusting pranks when I left my old house, I just took the cat with me. Sure the rats had a field day!