smell is driving me mad!!!

[devil99]

Sorry if this is wrong catagory, there is a horrible smell in my living room, its like a foystey smell and i can't pin point it!! there is no damp and i have had the settee in bits and i can't find anything dead!!! it gets worse as the day goes on and its driving me insane trying ti find the source!!! any ideas what it could be?

[naomi24]

What's a 'foystey smell'?

[Anngel]

Any holes in your skirting? could be a dead mouse. Or....do you have a fireplace, it could be a dead bird in the chimney. Try completely airing the room. Then see where the smell comes back when you close all the windows. If you have a few people living there ask them to help by standing in the room to see who smells it first. Horrible for you. I do sympathise. Good luck!

[Anngel]

I assume he means fusty...but does it really matter, honestly!?

[tearinghair]

Do you have an open chimney? A dead bird once got stuck in ours.

[naomi24]

Could something have been spilt on the carpet and not cleaned up?

[naomi24]

Anngel, it matters if you're trying to work out what the smell could be coming from. I've never heard of 'fusty' either.

[beejay1124]

spilt milk?

[devil99]

foystey means like a mildew, damp kind of smell, i have have worked out that it's coming from one corner of the room so its not a bird in the chimney, i will check the skirtings for a mouse, grrrrr its doing my head in i am walking round like a sniffer dog!! haha I did think it was something spilt and not cleaned up andi have cleaned all the settee and the carpets and its still there :-(

[beejay1124]

cut a raw onion in half and leave it near the smell

[sandyRoe]

Fusty would make you think of damp. Is there a down pipe from the gutters on the wall outside the room?

[naomi24]

Maybe it is 'damp' Could you have a problem with your damp course?

[devil99]

I am on a mission now to locate the smell!!! Thankyou for all your advice i will check it all out this morning, i've had better bank holidays LOL :-/

[Old_Geezer]

Could it be something under the floorboards ? Mould maybe, or a dead mouse ?

[TOWIE]

devil - when we moved into our bungalow, we had horrible smells - we located it to a drain in the conservatory - Mr. T. dug the floor up and there it was a rainwater drain. That was a musty damp smell.

Musty smells can nearly always be water leakage of some sort.

[LoftyLottie]

Foisty is a very common word, with a different meaning to Fusty

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/foisty

;o)

[Anngel]

Lofty...that is interesting. But how can you have a smiling smell? LOL

[Duncer]

You need to dispose of the body properly in future to avoid this sort of thing.

[naomi24]

Lottie, I've never heard of either. I wonder if they're words more common in some regions than others - as some words are?

[Maydup]

In my neck of the woods "Foisty" is used to describe a damp and rotting smell. Musty would be a dry smell, like some charity shops, fusty would be a stale and decaying smell. All similar but different.!

I agree that this particular foisty smell is a dead something under the floorboards.

[LoftyLottie]

Agree with Maidup. I originate from London by the way, but I wouldn't have thought it was a regional thing.