house misery

[boxofdelights]

There is a dead mouse somewhere in my house.

I thought it was in the bathroom. Anywhere a pipe passes through a wall or floor makes a mouse-road, and I don't want to know what is hidden behind the skirting around the tub. Also my walls and floor don't meet properly, and part of the floor is bare plywood, so there are lots of spots a mouse corpse could be unfindable. But then the smell showed up in my bedroom too, which made going to sleep miserable. And today, as I was wondering why mice would be dying all over my house at the same time, I realized that the smell got refreshed every time the furnace came on.

Dead mouse in the heat vent, I guess.

Comments

[sovay]

Dead mouse in the heat vent, I guess.

That's not good!

I'm sorry it doesn't just incinerate and solve the scent problem.

[boxofdelights]

I hope the hot dry air will mummify it.

[icarus]

Has it been improving? Getting more... dusty-smelling, less, oh, corpse-like?

Here's wishing tiny vultures in your air vents.

[jesse_the_k]

Oh! This is terrible.

(Nanite kitties?)

[boxofdelights]

I think the smell is receding, but I could just be getting used to it.

[icarus]

It has to recede at some point. My cousin had this problem. Her landlord used poison to get rid of mice ... and it was a baaaad move.

[boxofdelights]

Poison is what I was afraid of, when I thought mice were dying all over the house. But one visit from Death of Mice is normal, especially if the mouse fell down an airvent. The last dead mouse had crawled into the back of the refrigerator. I don't know whether it got electrocuted, but I unplugged the refrigerator before I extracted it!

[boxofdelights]

I want a whole self-cleaning house!

[bibliofile]

I want a whole self-cleaning house!

Who doesn't?!

If you can't find the corpse, maybe it's time for a professional vent cleaning?

(That said, friends with an older house and an octopus heating system had a pet snake escape and die somewhere that the HVAC guy couldn't find. His advice? Sell the house in summer.)