Weird smell, what can it be?

[Littlepeahead]

I know I post some stupid stuff on here but this is actually a serious question.

There is a very odd smell in my living room. As soon as I come downstairs in the morning I can smell it, just in there, not coming from something mouldy lurking in the fridge or kitchen drain but I just cannot find the source.

It's not pleasant, like something has died! I had it last summer for a few weeks then it went away again but now it's back so must be heat related.

I've checked behind furniture, even looked in case something has got inside the sofa as I know the cats sometimes bring live mice at this time of year and last year I thought it might be that but I can't find anything.

It's driving me mad.

The house is a 1980s end terrace, not an old place. No chimney for dead birds to get trapped.

Anyone got any bright ideas what on earth could be causing it as I really don't like living somewhere that has the faint whiff of a morgue!

(And before someone says it, Mr LPH is alive and well!)

[Bibio]

check under your patio.. lol

could be drain seepage starting to turn due to the hotter weather.

[Littlepeahead]

It doesn't smell like drains though. I know online it's hard to describe a smell but we are upwind of the sewage plant and on the rare occasions the wind changes the smell can reach us and it's like the portaloo city at Glastonbury. It's not that sort of poo-ey smell.

This is more like a cross between the medicinal small of a hospital and the slaughterhouse. I'm seriously starting to wonder if the previous owner built my extension on something dodgy.

[Bibio]

c'mon LPH you should know that smell having been brought up on a farm.

[Kenzie]

You haven't had a Pigeon drop down the chimney and die have you? Most are vented and could seep into the room.

[Biker Biggles]

Originally Posted by Kenzie

You haven't had a Pigeon drop down the chimney and die have you? Most are vented and could seep into the room.

You didnt read the OP did you?
Take a detention and 100 lines---"No chimney for dead birds to get trapped"
If you want to be spanked that will be extra.

[Littlepeahead]

No, there's no chimney. I once had a shallot fall down the back of the washing machine and that smelled bloomin' awful but you kind of follow your nose until you find the source, and bingo, there's the mouldy rancid culprit and the minute you remove it the smell is gone. This isn't like that, I've gone round the room trying to find the source and it's just in the air. It isn't the paint, it isn't cat pee, it isn't like rotten cabbage.

We've got solid concrete floors so it's not like we even think something could have crawled under the floor and died like a rodent. And it only seems to happen now the weather is hot, we've lived here 6 summers and this is the second year it's happened.

Stu being a bricklayer said if it was in the cavity between the walls we'd smell it in the garage as that's where the air brick is, but we think the walls are insulated anyway.

[Kenzie]

Originally Posted by Biker Biggles

You didnt read the OP did you?
Take a detention and 100 lines---"No chimney for dead birds to get trapped"
If you want to be spanked that will be extra.

Where did that sneak in from? Read it twice before posting!

End terrace, damp?
I'm putting my money on drainage, seen it loads, clay pipe falls to bits.

[Littlepeahead]

I was wondering that but I've had old houses with damp and they smell sort of, well, damp. Like wet socks. I know you've worked on loads of places Phil, might damp under a house permeate up through the foundations in this way but not obviously smell like wet socks as we have a decent damp proof course so it's not the sort of thing you get when the plaster starts flaking off.