Upstairs Smells Like Attic

If yours is a loft or attic bedroom you could be dealing with a leaking roof that is damaging the ceiling which is growing mould in the process of absorbing the water.

Upstairs smells like attic.

I recently reinsulated and weatherstriped without results. When air blows through the system it circulates the smell from the mold source and your entire house gets that musty smell. See mystery smell below for more on this. Emily tack from usa on march 15 2015.

Spray an air freshener in the room if needed to make the attic a tolerable space to work in. Sniffed the walls the floor outlets ac vents no moldy window sills and it s mostly in the doorway. Run a large fan in the window facing out to draw air from the attic. We live in fl so it was very interesting living with that.

Ceiling which is now connected to the attic. If you do not have any of these your attic gets really hot and that smell travels through electrical outlets switches. Musty moldy smell this one is usually much easier to find this smell is associated with water moisture in the system leading to mold growth. Look for an areas in your ceiling that have changed colour.

Whenever the air is on upstairs the upstairs smells musty and has that attic smell the furnace is in the attic but the smell isn t that bad when the heat is on. There are two things happening. If it smells the same that s your problem. Air is being drawn from attic into house via duct return leakage.

There are other holes as well like where the wire from your light switch travels up into the attic. But i don t know what squirrel urine or feces smells like. You can easily determine this problem if you stick your head in the attic and sniff. Let alone there should be a plate barrier between me and upstairs and the attic gable area.

On cool days no smell but when the attic gets hot the one bedroom has the smell. Oh i am very familiar with the smell of rotting fruit rats that died in our attic. I thought there might be air flow from the attic into the house through the attic access. Gable vent in end of outside wall high up in peak end.

Air is being drawn in from attic into house via openings in the. Where those wires punch through to the attic are rarely sealed properly or at all and that is just one more path for hot air to travel down into your house bringing that lovely odor with it. What your house duct system. Are telling you is that you have a failure somewhere.

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