How can I get rid of the smell of damp from wood?

[smart1]

I had a damp problem in my bedroom (now sorted) but I have an antique chest of drawers that now stinks of damp. I have washed the contents of the drawers. The drawers themselves, and the inside of the frame I have washed down with a bleach solution, but it still smells badly. Can anyone help please?

[KARL]

Assuming everything is dried out through adequate heating (continuous heating to above 18-20 degrees) then the odour will soon disappear. If heating is either intermittent or inadequate in some other way then high humidity will sustain the algal spores, leaving them detectable as a "stink of damp". This is a very common problem in the UK where UK heating habits persist, but not abroad where people heat whenever it gets cold.

[smart1]

Thank you very much Karl :-)

[Hawkwalk]

buy some perfumed drawer liners, these will mask the smell.

[starone]

My aunt lived in a very damp house and I have never forgotten the smell of the mould and her attempts to cover it with pine disinfectant. I hate the smell of pine disinfectant to this day and will never use it. I think you will have to dry it out thoroughly first before you can do anything else with it.

[rowanwitch]

try lavender aromatherapy oil in some really cheap vodka the spirit helps carry the oil into the wood...leave the chest of drawers empty and open until it is completely dry

[society]

Karl is right, the drawers are not thoroughly dried.