Forgot to mention it is an electric stove and dryer. Thanks.

Update on my experience. About two weeks ago I had my chimney cleaned and a "Lock Top" damper installed on the top of the chimney. This is a brand name, and it is installed with a sealing grout and has a heat resistant gasket such that when it is closed it seals like a well fit storm door, being closed by a pull chain hanging down the flue to the fireplace opening. The chimney person said my cement crown for three flues was badly cracked, some cracks as wide as his finger. He said he could get me a price to repair, but didn't know it that had anything to do with the problem. Then some rain came and the smell came back. As "Luck" would have it I also had an appointment with my roofer to replace a shingle the wind had blown off and to check my roof. I told him about the chimney cap and he said he could repair, they did it with a repair cement/plaster. That was three days ago and the smell is slowly going down, but we haven't had any rain yet either. I am hopeful that the repair of the "crown" will turn the table on the smell. I'd like to use the fireplace next winter once and a while, but I will not if we can't solve the smell problem. Yes, an airtight insert with a stainless steel liner with insulation mortar (or something like that) to fill in the space between the liner and the tiles would fix the problem, I'm told. This looks to be well over $3,000, maybe $4,000, a bit more than I'd like to spend for the joy of a warm hearth.

if you ever have a fridge that has a bad odor in it use it in there, I use it straight on a paper towel and wipe down the surfaces and put a cup with some and some water in there for a few days. My family in Louisiana had some problems due to power outages during the Hurricanes and I brought Odoban down there to them for the clean ups, especially since it kills mold and mold spores and mildew. Even in shoes that stink put some on a paper towel and shove it into the shoe and leave it there. My husband had some tennis shoes that had the fabric web stuff on the sides and he left them outside well someones cat sprayed them, OMG he did not know and put them on and we got in the car to go somewhere we had to stop the car and bail out. Finally figured out it was his shoes! I soaked them in odoban and ran them in the washer with odoban then stuffed them with soaked paper towels. I really thought I was going to have to throw those shoes away but nope it fixed them. I swear I find new things to do with it all the time. Too bad you can not find it locally, I have always got mine at Sams, the last jug I got had the spray bottle full that came along with it for the same regular price which was nice because I had used one of my old cleaner bottles to mix my odoban spray in and used a sharpie to label it LOL

Hi, Yes. Poke holes in a few bags of charcoal or place charcoal pieces into a nylon or breathable bag and place it in the area that was painted. The charcoal has absorbent properties that will trap smells within the microscopic air pockets within. You could also buy boxes of baking soda and place the boxes in the area. It has the same effect. If you found this helpful visit http://doveshomeservices.com