What Does a Dead Mouse Smell Like?
If your home is in a humid location, you should consider the use of a dehumidifier. Odors tend to be stronger in high humidity and heat. I have a concrete and flagstone walkway in need of repair or replacement. I like the look of flagstones, with their various colors.
I have had two landscapers come, telling me that pavers are the way to go. I have more than enough flagstones to do the job. Are they trying to get me to spend more money? Can the flagstones be placed without using concrete, which can crumble? Set this way, they tend to move around in the wet seasons.
If you have a lot of flagstones already, like the look, and are on a budget, it makes sense to use them.
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You can install the stones you have in mortar or in a bed of sand, stone dust, or gravel. The mortared look, if properly installed, will last a long time.
Sand and gravel settings will require periodic maintenance; as the stones settle or shift, the sand and gravel will need to be replaced at the joints. Flagstone is durable and will work just fine. The CDC recommends soaking the carcass in a disinfectant solution of 1 part bleach to 10 parts water for five minutes before double-packing it in sealable plastic bags and disposing of it in a garbage can that's emptied regularly.
If you can't find the dead body or can't clean up the mess without removing parts of the engine, call your local service station or body shop and break the news gently. They should be able to get the animal out for you. Once the remains are out, it's time to work on the stink. The lingering foul odor is produced by bacteria left on surfaces after the body is removed. Donning gloves again, scrub down all surfaces that had any contact with the dead creature with a commercial disinfectant or diluted bleach solution and let the car air out as much as possible. This gets tricky, however, if the animal died near your air filter they love ripping up air filters and using the scraps for nesting material or within the car's burrow-like ventilation system.
In that case, there's a good chance that the odorous bacteria were dispersed throughout the entire passenger compartment. At this point, you might want to call in the professionals. Frank Simmons is founder of The Odor Doctors , a business that specializes in removing lingering odors from vehicles. While Simmons says that dead animal calls are "pretty rare," he's seen cases where rodents have climbed into the air conditioner's evaporator unit and gotten trapped, spreading the stench throughout the whole vehicle.
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Simmons uses a three-step process to remove all odors cigar smoke, he says, is the worst. The first pass is with saturated dry steam. That's a type of ultra-hot steam cleaner that directs a blast of degrees F degrees C on all surface bacteria to, as Simmons puts it, "melt the funk away. This usually takes several weeks, although the smell will lessen gradually over that time. Here are some suggestions to get through this tough time. You can use multiple bowls if preferred.
If using coffee grounds, be aware that they will remove most smells, but they will leave a coffee odor in its place. To get rid of dead animal odor, remove it, then put a pan of fresh coffee grounds in the car.
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Be sure all windows are up. Your odor will be gone in a couple of days. I have used this twice.
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It worked for me. Or was it on two separate cars?
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The smell in the car is sickening. I have flies the size of the tip of my pinky buzzing around the car and dipping back under the dashboard near the windshield. And to think…I almost caught that little bugger. It got stuck on the sticky pad and everything, but it somehow dragged itself and the sticky pad back up the carpet towards the dashboard and pulled itself off. Exactly what happened to me. But I think my rat was huge because he got off a big trap.
I thought he got away until I started smelling something foul yesterday and this morning it was so bad that flies immediately got in my car when I opened the door.
How Do I Get Rid of a Dead Animal Smell in My Car?
My car parking is close to our home garbage and my sister left peanut butter cookies in my car. And it attracted the monster rat. I bought the neutralizer earlier and had my husband spray it in. Hopefully that works until after hurricane Irma passes and I can have someone check it out. Nickinix, Try following the flies.
Let one or two in to buzz around and see where they go… hopefully they will lead you to the rat. Spraying odor removers do not really work unless you are able to actually get to the location where the mouse died. I found three different nests in the trunk and cleaned those out. I put a trap in the trunk, after the fact. The car is now beautiful, but smells like the city dump. Any more ideas, guys??? But I noticed flies on the passenger side fender area. I removed the plastic liner that seals the fender cavity.