mrs.m Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 (edited) Today I opened the windows and was hit with a very unpleasant odor that caused 2 little boys to star in their pretend death scenes. (it was BAD!!! I was doing the same inside as I closed the windows) I noticed it outside on Sunday too. Since it is a gas, I can't figure out the source. The boys promised it wasn't them. Everything functions fine inside. I have a very sensitive nose and haven't smelled sewage in the basement or in the bathrooms. We have a clean-out in the yard that was installed a few years ago by the previous owner and our yard looks fine. We've been in the house since January. Any ideas on what this is? Any dyi plumbers? DH says it is the town. But I don't think so... Edited October 4, 2011 by jannylynn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 Any industries in town? Pulp mill? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joannqn Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 Any industries in town? Pulp mill? :iagree: We live about 3 miles from the Ostrom Mushroom Farm. Some days it smells like a whole herd of animals died in our front yard. Or you could describe it as a ton of rotting garbage. Either way, it's pretty unpleasant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KathyBC Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 We occasionally get a whiff of septic from the service station 1 kilometre away. I kept thinking it was something around our house. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFSinIL Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 Skunk? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blueridge Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 Do you have a septic tank? If you do, perhaps there is a clog or back-up in the lateral lines. You may have a cess pool at the end of one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parrothead Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 Skunk? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onceuponatime Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 Here it's always a pig truck that went by. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blueridge Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 Here it's always a pig truck that went by. :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgo95 Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 August was a very wet month for us here with record amounts of rain. This led to lots of mushrooms growing around around the yard. Some of them were very stinky and I had to go around the yard disposing of half a garbage can's worth of mushrooms (yuk!). Maybe it's the mushroom farm? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarah1615 Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 We have cabbage farms around here. In the fall and spring when the cabbages are rotting it's very stinky when driving near one of the farms. Other than produce rotting, I have no idea. Hope you get it figured out soon! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris in VA Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 We have a water treatment plant/sewage place down the road the bit. It gets bad on summer nights, to the point where the joke is that it's just "Lorton Air." :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrs.m Posted October 4, 2011 Author Share Posted October 4, 2011 I'll ask around to see if anyone knows if there is something that causes a big stink in town. I really hope it isn't my house. But I can't imagine what it could be without some physical evidence and a smell inside. No septic system, just city sewer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blueridge Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 We used to live in a small town that fertilized their wheat fields with chicken poo...and the air was very aromatic for a week. Here in parts of VA they use bio-solids (yep, reclaimed sewer sludge) to spray large crops, and the smell is unearthly. I hope that isn't what you are smelling! :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heather in AL Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 We would get the pleasure of smelling the human waste that was being used to fertilize farms in a neighboring county. I'm talking more than 20 miles away, yet when the wind blew.... it was like smelling an overflowing septic tank!! The only reason I know what it was is because so many people called the news stations wondering what was up. The farms have since switched to chicken poo, I believe, and while it still is noticeable, it's not quite as vile smelling. We also occasionally get smells from a paper mill that is around a hundred or so miles from here. Again, as reported on the news due to calls. Thankfully, the smells are only here for a few days a couple of times a year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrs.m Posted October 4, 2011 Author Share Posted October 4, 2011 A couple days ago I was walking in the back yard and smelled something horrid. I thought perhaps it was a dead deer. I then noticed some creepy, phallic shaped mushrooms with flies on them. Yep-they're called Stinkpots, and they smell just like a dead animal. yuck! I haven't seen any mushrooms though. I think our town stinks or it is the city's drainage system. I haven't noticed it today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Nyssa Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 A bad smell once happened to our house too-- we lived way out in the country and it turned out to be wild pigs (hogs?) that were grubbing up the roses. The ground was wet there because of a leaking irrigation hose and I guess they were looking for water. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riverland Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 As pp's have mentioned, our unpleasant aromas are generally skunks or septic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Momling Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 We had an animal (squirrel? cat? raccoon?) who crawled under our porch and died. We could do nothing. I ended up posting a note on the door for the postal worker so they didn't think something dead was *inside* the house. It lasted a few days and went away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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