Sewage smell from bathrooms

[ETC]

I remember years ago as a student a class mate (a mature student with children) had just moved into his brand new house around Easter. Just after the Easter holidays my class mate told us that there was a terrible smell coming from the utility room. For three or four weeks plumbers, builders and all sorts took the drainage system apart, opened manholes and washed out the drains. Nobody had any idea where the smell was coming from.

 

About a few days after his children returned to school his six-year-old son asked him if he could take the (real) egg he had decorated for Easter to school. The egg was proudly displayed in - yes you guessed it - the window cill in the utility room. The egg hadn’t been cleaned out properly and every time the sun shone through the utility room window a terrible smell was emitted from the egg.

 

So - after all the plumbers and builders coming through the house looking at the drains it turns out that the smell was coming from a real egg that hadn’t been cleaned out propane the smell was only apparent when the sun shone through the window and heated the egg up.

[ProDave]

A dead mouse under a floor board or kitchen unit etc can smell really bad for a long time

[saveasteading]

9 minutes ago, ProDave said:

smell really bad for a long time

Mouse 2 days. Rat 7 days.

 

[ToughButterCup]

5 minutes ago, saveasteading said:

....  Rat 7 days.

 

Dependant on cannibalism I'm afraid. 

 

Rats will look at a dead stable mate and - in my experience within 24 hours - eat their dead Bessy Friend. Mostly I gather and dispose of all the rats shot in one session.

But I sometimes leave one or two rats I have shot as bait for others (saves my time). Rats are amazingly clean.