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Removing rodent urine smell
After moving into our home we've noticed a strong urine smell coming from the outward edge of a room that was converted from a garage sometime back in the 1990's. My guess is they built rafters across the old garage floor to raise the floor, then put vinyl planks over that. All around the outside of this room, at the base of the wall, there are "vents" in the otherwise solid cinder block base. Some are cast cement, some are framed in wood, all have some kind of wire grating. Near the smelly corner one grate in particular has rotten wood, visible debris (insulation?) inside, and the wire grate is damage. I can also smell urine from the vent on the opposite side of the room from this vent. We just had a baby. I have zero budget to have this remedied professionally. What is the best way of doing this myself? Do I use a long pole with a broom head to try and clear out the channel between these two "vents"? Remove the vinyl plank floor near the wall/smelly corner and clear it out from above? It seems like a horrible idea to have direct holes to this space from the exterior. Is it better if I completely seal it off and put in interior floor vents? There is no crawlspace under this part of the house, just the cement garage floor below the raised floor they built. Thank you! I can't stand the smell any longer. submitted by /u/magicthrowaway2021 [link] [comments]
| | After moving into our home we've noticed a strong urine smell coming from the outward edge of a room that was converted from a garage sometime back in the 1990's. My guess is they built rafters across the old garage floor to raise the floor, then put vinyl planks over that. All around the outside of this room, at the base of the wall, there are "vents" in the otherwise solid cinder block base. Some are cast cement, some are framed in wood, all have some kind of wire grating. Near the smelly corner one grate in particular has rotten wood, visible debris (insulation?) inside, and the wire grate is damage. I can also smell urine from the vent on the opposite side of the room from this vent. We just had a baby. I have zero budget to have this remedied professionally. What is the best way of doing this myself? Do I use a long pole with a broom head to try and clear out the channel between these two "vents"? Remove the vinyl plank floor near the wall/smelly corner and clear it out from above? It seems like a horrible idea to have direct holes to this space from the exterior. Is it better if I completely seal it off and put in interior floor vents? There is no crawlspace under this part of the house, just the cement garage floor below the raised floor they built. Thank you! I can't stand the smell any longer. [link] [comments] |