What I did on my winter non-vacation.
Feb. 7th, 2004 01:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
reddragdivaOn my winter non-vacation, I woke up. I read my mail and LiveJournal. I
attempted to kill ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
redcountess with a sausages, bacon, egg and
mushroom-induced heart attack. Then I went down the street for a torch, got
the ladder out the garage and opened the manhole to the crawlspace to try
to work out where the HELL the smell of mould, with a faint overtone of
rotting flesh, is coming from.
The flat has a nicely fitted-out crawlspace, verging on an attic. There's some flooring, two lightbulbs and ridiculous quantities of broken furniture. I'm suspecting water has gotten into the furniture. The rotting meat smell may be an unfortunate pigeon or similar. However, I'm not keen to get in there and investigate for myself, as the ladder isn't tall enough and I don't feel like going through contortions getting up and worse ones getting back down.
So. What does one do in this situation? There was no smell Thursday
morning, then vile and verging on the unlivable in the evening; less so
Friday and today. I would say "fuck it, it's a rental" except it's
horrible. arkady has
offered to investigate herself (she's a lot smaller and lighter than me),
but is unlikely to be over in the next couple of days. If it continues I'll
hassle the agent. But I was wondering if any of you had suffered something
similar in a rental property.
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Date: 2004-02-07 05:17 am (UTC)All 3 floors had that delightful "stench" all through winter that year (too cold to leave windows open).
Landlady lived in the US, no rental agent. We just had to deal.
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Date: 2004-02-07 05:22 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-02-07 05:21 am (UTC)Revenge is sometimes not sweet, but stinky and smells of maggots. All. Summer. Long.
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Date: 2004-02-07 05:25 am (UTC)Re:
Date: 2004-02-07 05:56 am (UTC)That whole thing is absolutely cracking me up, still. Good god, people! Get the fuck over yourselves! (On both sides of the debate.)
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Date: 2004-02-07 08:52 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-02-07 05:24 am (UTC)Re:
Date: 2004-02-07 05:32 am (UTC)Besides, I've smelt a rotting corpse before. It's not the sort of smell you'd forget in a hurry. This smell isn't quite the same, so I suspect a dead pidgeon or squirrel....
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Date: 2004-02-07 05:33 am (UTC)I think Liz and Diva would have noticed
Date: 2004-02-07 06:15 am (UTC)Re: I think Liz and Diva would have noticed
Date: 2004-02-07 01:44 pm (UTC)Link above is not work safe
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Date: 2004-02-07 05:45 am (UTC)Fortunately there are no managers in today. ;-)
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Date: 2004-02-07 10:57 am (UTC)Re: Link above is not work safe
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Date: 2004-02-07 05:50 am (UTC)never looked back.
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Date: 2004-02-07 06:47 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-02-07 08:12 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-02-07 09:27 am (UTC)I did the same to Kjersti, but *** CENSORFED BY KJERSTI ***.
Well, she got breakfast at 16:30, anyhow. And now she's gone back for a bit of a snooze after the rigors of the day (i.e. wake up, set fire alarm off, get in car, go to sleep, get out of car, go to sleep again).