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Bad smell in house after stripping wallpaper

  • 12-02-2019 1:17pm
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    ibarelycare
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    Last week we stripped the wallpaper in our hairs/stall/landing. I've no idea how long the wallpaper has been there, I'd say 20+ years. There was another layer of wallpaper underneath. We're still doing a job to get the last bits off (both working full time so hard to make time to do it!) but in the last few days the house has started absolutely STINKING. It's like a smell of sweaty old feet and is clinging to our clothes, and because it's H/S/L, it's EVERYWHERE in the house. It's an old Corporation house in Dublin 12, and we do have some issues with damp in a couple of the rooms, but it's a far more rancid smell than just mould/mildew. Has anyone any advice on what to do about the smell? If we start decorating over it will that mask it?!


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    antiskeptic
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    ibarelycare wrote: »
    Last week we stripped the wallpaper in our hairs/stall/landing. I've no idea how long the wallpaper has been there, I'd say 20+ years. There was another layer of wallpaper underneath. We're still doing a job to get the last bits off (both working full time so hard to make time to do it!) but in the last few days the house has started absolutely STINKING. It's like a smell of sweaty old feet and is clinging to our clothes, and because it's H/S/L, it's EVERYWHERE in the house. It's an old Corporation house in Dublin 12, and we do have some issues with damp in a couple of the rooms, but it's a far more rancid smell than just mould/mildew. Has anyone any advice on what to do about the smell? If we start decorating over it will that mask it?!

    My dad used to make a sort of liquid glue from pellets derived from boiled horse hooves to prepare artist canvases (it came in pellet form which he boiled up in water). Could be someone used it as wallpaper paste. It stunk to high heaven - like smelly feet. Can remember the smell still.

    You can get smell blocker paint - I used it successfully to stop the smell of chimney coming through a rebuilt chimney breast -when painting alone wouldn't halt it.


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