More housekeeping tips needed - my room stinks

[HEyHEY]

Okay, so,if I leave my bedroom window closed, my room begins to smell like dirty clothes. I keep it clean and there are not dirty clothes lying about. I've even had all my clothes washed and have had no luck. My old room never had this problem. It's not the sheets, not the laundry. WHAT THE HELL IS IT?!

[MrsBrady]

1. carpet?

...or maybe something died in the walls or ceiling??

[HEyHEY]

2. I'm wondering carpet. I've vaccumed alot

Nah, nothing dead... it's dirty clothes, not decaying corpse.

[XemaSab]

3. Hang little trees from the ceiling

HUNDREDS of them. :D

[Roon]

4. I woke up to stinky room once

then I found out it was me sweating out beer.Terrible....I even washed my sheets at 2am and everything trying to kill the smell.

[logosoco]

5. baking soda

sprinkle liberally on the carpet, let that sit a while and then vacuum. If you can find the source, clean with vinegar (the smell of vinegar goes away when dry, i promise!)

[yellowdogintexas]

7. it does, I can vouch for that. nt

[Book Lover]

12. I second this

Use white vinegar! :-)

[yellowdogintexas]

6. if the bathroom is next door there may be a water leak that is seeping into the

carpet and/or carpet pad (most likely the pad) from there which is going sour thus creating the gym sock smell. Dead animal in the wall smell is quite distinct from gym bag smell. Or maybe you spilled something in there ages ago and it has now decided to mildew ...

Or there may be a way that water seeps in along the floor line on the exterior wall when there is a hard rain.

If I run my sprinkler in the yard behind my bedroom windows for too long and the spray is hitting the brick wall, it will seep into my closet and dampen the carpet. My daughter's room was getting seep from a drip on the pipe that comes down from the toilet tank, a small enough drip that it took about a week for it to fill up a big bowl that I put under it after we finally found it. The carpet pad was just wicking it in.

[JVS]

8. has your funk gone through the sheets and into the mattress?

Was the room previously a "man sweat" depository?

[HEyHEY]

9. mattress is fine, I think it's carpet

[JVS]

10. Maybe orgies once took place in that room. What the fuck is wrong with you, letting the tradition..

die?

[AlCzervik]

11. what about your shoes, could that be the where the smell is coming from?

[HEyHEY]

13. nope

[AlCzervik]

14. ok do you have a hamper and is it fabric lined? Even if there aren't any dirty clothes

in there the fabric lining could stink.

[HEyHEY]

15. Hey, I tried that too - washed it and all.... It must be the carpet

[AlCzervik]

16. :-(, i would try the baking soda thing, put it on there and just let it sit for as long as possible

like all day and then vacuum it up, hopefully that will help.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

17. Sounds like moldy carpet.

The baking soda vacuuming trick might work. You might need to get a carpet cleaner to come in with an ozone generator to kill the mold. Or you might need to rip out the carpet entirely. I have a large ozone generator that kills odors.

[LeftyMom]

18. Carpet?

Try using some enzyme cleaner (test to make sure it doesn't discolor your carpet first!) in a rug shampooer.

[grannylib]

19. A story about those powdered carpet fresheners you vacuum up...

I used to use them a lot in a home where the landlord had replaced the carpet with some used carpeting he'd purchased at a sale when a hotel was redecorating. It was in good condition as far as how it looked, but it had a musty smell so I used to use the Arm and Hammer stuff on it a lot to try to get rid of the odor.
So one day, I walked into the house after a trip to the grocery store, and Sarahbellum, who was a toddler at the time, was walking around with the container of parmesan cheese, sprinkling that on the carpet, and she must have known that SOMETHING was not quite right about the whole scene, because as she was making the entire house smell like an Italian restaurant, she was saying, "Oh shit, Sarah...oh shit, Sarah...oh shit, Sarah..." like she knew that was what she was gonna hear *lol* I nearly died laughing.

[Maraya1969]

23. Did it eventually help the smell. I like the smell of Parmesan cheese

[grannylib]

25. *lol* no, it just smelled like musty parmesan cheese

[MonkeyFunk]

20. It's the dead hooker in the closet

you can't just leave 'em there.

[BensMom]

21. Is it damp?

I would get a dehumidifier going.

We have high humidity here with summer and the humidifier is a good friend.

[grasswire]

22. febreze

It smells good.

[RebelOne]

27. My suggestion also. Febreze is my friend.

Mainly because I smoke and have 2 dogs and Febreze covers up all the odors.

[Brigid]

28. I second that.

Even helps with litter box odor.

[Critters2]

24. Try this stuff: http://www.zeroodorstore.com/

I had a room with carpet that never quite seemed clean, smell-wise. I sprayed this all over the carpet (actually used a battery-operated sprayer that the previous inhabitants had left in my basement), and voila! the odor was gone.

I use this stuff around the litter boxes all the time, too.

[Digit]

26. Wash your blankies, too

I hope you are not allowing your things to mildew in the washer before putting them in the dryer. The smell will stay with the clothes/sheets/or whatever.

Are your pillows washable? If so, take them out of the dryer before it shuts off and fluff them immediately so they don't compress.