A bad smell in the kitchen...

[Money_Pits]

... is not what you want to smell after spending all your energy in the morning doing yard work and clearing brush. Rotting animal smell.

 

I've got the stove pulled out, and it wasn't from that, which means it's coming from the cabinets... but nothings in them, which means under the cabinets or in a wall. I've been meaning to redo the kitchen, so I guess that starts today.  Oh, and its not from the crawl space either (and I am infinitely glad I laid out a 3' wide plastic roll path under the house when I first moved in to crawl on).

 

Also guessing that we'll be ordering take out for dinner.

[coheed]

Check your sink trap before tearing cabinets down. The trap in our bathroom starts smelling bad when it needs cleaning.

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6 minutes ago, coheed said:

Check your sink trap before tearing cabinets down. The trap in our bathroom starts smelling bad when it needs cleaning.

 

Ah that's a good idea.

[Pete M]

this isn't a gas leak, is it?

[Money_Pits]

Don't believe so. Smell is firmly in the kitchen, the wash room with the furnace/water heater is fine. Theres only the two feet of piping in the house to hook those 2 appliances up, so won't be hard to double check.

[Ωhm]

Do you have a microwave vent or stove hood vent leading to the outside? Critters like them. 

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1 minute ago, Ωhm said:

Do you have a microwave vent or stove hood vent leading to the outside? Critters like them. 

 

Stove vent, yea. I hope it's not that cause I installed a new one a few years ago and kept using the original duct work up through the roof, and the damn thing has leaked off and on ever since. I'm beginning to realize this could very well be merged into the "things you've been putting off fixing thread"

 

I can't check the p trap cause I don't have anything to catch the water that will fit under it here, but I do at work, so that'll get cleaned tomorrow.

[gogmorgo]

I’ve had an issue with roommates disposing of fish guts in a freshly emptied kitchen garbage and letting that sit for a week...

Floor drains can also be a culprit. I’ve had a couple places I’ve lived where I’ve had to dump a couple gallons of water down the basement drains to refill the p-trap and stop sewer gas from coming up into the house. If there’s any sort of drain you don’t use much I’d try that.

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12 hours ago, gogmorgo said:

I’ve had an issue with roommates disposing of fish guts in a freshly emptied kitchen garbage and letting that sit for a week...

Floor drains can also be a culprit. I’ve had a couple places I’ve lived where I’ve had to dump a couple gallons of water down the basement drains to refill the p-trap and stop sewer gas from coming up into the house. If there’s any sort of drain you don’t use much I’d try that.

 

That reminds me of the time a friend of mine lost a fish (somehow) in my TJ, was sitting there rotting under my rear seat.

 

Smell was gone last night (or wasn't bad enough for me to smell it over the lingering bleach), but I'm still going to clean the traps out. If they are clear, the I'm going to crawl into the attic and make sure a squirrel hasn't got in there and died. Also discovered that a stray cat has been sneaking into and living in my crawl space, so I will need to crawl further in there.

[87MJTIM]

Do you have an exhaust fan in the kitchen?

 

l had a smell coming from a half bath vent. I had birds nesting in it at one time. Thought maybe one had died in there. I got a vent brush to clean it out. Using a fish-tape, fed in from the outside to pull the brush outside. To my surprise, I pulled out a 2’ rat snake. 
 

I called to my wife “Hey, come look at this...”

 

It’s been a few years but she’s speaking to me again.