Stinky Stinky Trash Can Cabinet!
Madeline616
12 years ago
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HELP! stinky 'accidental' pile -- what to do?
Comments (14)Haha I love the picture. It clarifies why your family is upset. Same thing happens to me sometimes. I think rule number 1 is try to keep the pile away from the house, or anybody's house for that matter. Also, when the police find the body, you can arrange the alibi better. If you can find a day when everyone is away, consider just digging it up and moving it. A dirty job, but it solves the problem. I would compost in a fallow bed rather than near my house. Moving the pile is the direct approach to getting the smell away from people. After all, the pile is not a huge problem, it is the location. This method is guaranteed to be effective for anybody but Raymond Burr in Rear Window. Maybe chemistry can help. Wood ash will raise pH. That might get rid of your boggy smell. Sawdust will soak things up a little and raise C if too much N is your problem. Neither will bring catastrophe if you are wrong in guessing the cause. Lime and or wood chips might be your last resorts in this category. Barring that, I would go for cover. Two weeks is likely to be enough. Leaves>cardboard>tarp Just keep going until you cannot smell it. Open it up when people are not around. Then you can check it and air it out or turn it. It might go anaerobic or continue to be so, but that will end eventually as you keep turning it, reduce cover, and get back to normal. I have tried all of these things in different situations, none involving victims of foul play. Is the smell really that bad? You have not mentioned insects or vermin problems. Have you considered a new family? haha!...See MoreStinky Wood Furniture
Comments (3)Hello rivkadr I just had a very similar problem with a bed I bought from someone who imports furniture from Thailand. When I got it home, I discovered it absolutely reeked of wood smoke. First I tried to get rid of the smell by using Murphy's Oil Soap but it had no impact. It got better over a few weeks but was still very noticeable. I own a Lotus Ozonator which uses ozonated water to sanitize and the manual said it could be used to deodorize. I made a batch of the cleaner in the squirt bottle and sprayed it all over the bed and dried it off. It really seemed to help. There is still the slightest odour but I suspect that that is coming from the parts of the back of the headboard where I was not able to spray since the bed was already set up and too heavy to move by myself. (FYI I have no connection to the company that makes the Lotus so this is not spam). Maybe you can get your hands on a Lotus and try it on your furniture (they're not cheap though - I found mine on Craigslist). Here is the website: http://www.tersano.com/index.php...See MoreEnclosing trash cans in cabinets? Inconvenient hassle?
Comments (47)@scootermom, 1) It is electrical. When the motor is activated by pressure or pulling on the drawer, there's a curved fingerlike projection that physically pushes the drawer forward (see image). Closing simply uses the soft-close mechanism of Blumotion slides that many people already have. When you have a power outage or tripped breaker, the drawers work like regular drawers. Servo Drive is a rather complex system to put together but a very simple one in functionality: A 24V DC transformer (big block above outlet) powers up to 10 (I think) Servo Drive motors (small block below outlet with white label), you need a mount for each motor (L-shaped flat piece motor is mounted on), and low voltage wire between the transformer and motor and between motors (they are mounted in series). If you have servo drive motors for multiple drawers in a bank, they have a vertical aluminum rail that all the motors can mount to. 2) I had JUST gotten the song out of my head until you mentioned it... Here goes another 3 months of "Servo Drive, Servo Drive, it's so easy..." @madeyna, we have Nine Star iTouchless trash cans at our office and at the house, and we love them. I hate touching trash cans, and plus they're cheaper than Simple Human's NON-motorized cans, though not quite as pretty. My one complaint is they get VERY grimy in the lid's crevices, and we put off cleaning it because we don't like to, and eventually it gets really gross. I hope our trash pullouts will stay a lot cleaner than our iTouchless cans!...See MoreStinky perfumey air freshener neighbors
Comments (62)We bought a condo last year only to be inundated with cannabis, tobacco smoke and SCENTED THC VAPING. If you google DIY vape scents you will come across “old lady perfume smell” which is the WORST vape scent ever next to STRAWBERRY vape cartridges which completely permeated our entire HVAC system from the owners below AND two floors down. We called the Health Department who contacted our condo management and insisted they post no smoke/vape signs throughout the building. We written the condo Board demanding they seal our HVAC and stop these residents from doing drugs and exhausting them into their range hoods amd through their windows where it gets blown into our ventilation system. It is a near impossible situation. Perhaps there is a way to generate and blow an obnoxious odour or vapour into their units? Sulphur?...See MoreMadeline616
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