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Last winter a mouse decided to escape our endless winter for the warmer climes of our oven. After much ado, we learned that our chemical warfare was successful when we smelled his rotting corpse somewhere in our oven. After even more ado, we managed to slowly disassemble our oven until we found and removed his very cute little corpse. Subsequent to that my wife brought in an oven repair guy to make sure all was well with the oven.

We've used the oven and stove top many times since then........but not the broiler.

Fast forward to Christmas day where we decided to use the broiler. Smoke started exhausting out of some vents in the oven. My wife immediately turned on the fan that's part of the microwave which is above the stove. She refuses to believe that it does zero good because it's not exhausted to the outside. She feels that because it's a fan and makes a blowing noise it must be doing some good. The fact that the smoke from the oven is blown right back into the kitchen seems so ridiculous that she dismisses the idea as stupidity on my part.

I thought maybe it was just something burning off from a previous meal until we remembered the deceased mouse and I realized it was probably a hidden and unfound nest that consisted of paper, dried mouse piss, mouse shit, mouse hair, mouse poison, and assorted mystery mouse nest materials. We opened windows, got fans going, and lit a bunch of candles to get rid of that piquant after fire smell.

Fast forward to today and my house still smells horrible. We put out baking soda and boiled some vinegar which my wife read on line is a remedy. The vinegar smells horrible and burns your eyes but it's less horrible than burned mouse nest stink.

Any of you liemen know of a quick way to de-stink a house quickly? My wife's family is coming over on Saturday. Good times.

Rent an ozone generator

DrDonkeyLove wrote:Fast forward to Christmas day where we decided to use the broiler. Smoke started exhausting out of some vents in the oven. My wife immediately turned on the fan that's part of the microwave which is above the stove. She refuses to believe that it does zero good because it's not exhausted to the outside. She feels that because it's a fan and makes a blowing noise it must be doing some good. The fact that the smoke from the oven is blown right back into the kitchen seems so ridiculous that she dismisses the idea as stupidity on my part.

It's like we're married to the same woman.

I'm tempted to plant more disgusting things in your house so I can read your posts. Give your wife a hug and tell her you are buying a bigger fan.

Odo-ban is great.

http://www.odoban.com/where-to-buy.php

Keep some extra around for when your gut gremlins get angry and you end up unleashing some chemical warfare on the bathroom.

My other idea, self-cleaning ovens clean themselves by carbonizing and disintegrating the filth. Just leave your broiler on high with a fan to exhaust to the exterior until everything has been cooked away.

Do you have one of those microwaves above your stove with the fan in the bottom? My wife said to turn that on.

DrDonkeyLove wrote:Last winter a mouse decided to escape our endless winter for the warmer climes of our oven. After much ado, we learned that our chemical warfare was successful when we smelled his rotting corpse somewhere in our oven. After even more ado, we managed to slowly disassemble our oven until we found and removed his very cute little corpse. Subsequent to that my wife brought in an oven repair guy to make sure all was well with the oven.

We've used the oven and stove top many times since then........but not the broiler.

Fast forward to Christmas day where we decided to use the broiler. Smoke started exhausting out of some vents in the oven. My wife immediately turned on the fan that's part of the microwave which is above the stove. She refuses to believe that it does zero good because it's not exhausted to the outside. She feels that because it's a fan and makes a blowing noise it must be doing some good. The fact that the smoke from the oven is blown right back into the kitchen seems so ridiculous that she dismisses the idea as stupidity on my part.

I thought maybe it was just something burning off from a previous meal until we remembered the deceased mouse and I realized it was probably a hidden and unfound nest that consisted of paper, dried mouse piss, mouse shit, mouse hair, mouse poison, and assorted mystery mouse nest materials. We opened windows, got fans going, and lit a bunch of candles to get rid of that piquant after fire smell.

Fast forward to today and my house still smells horrible. We put out baking soda and boiled some vinegar which my wife read on line is a remedy. The vinegar smells horrible and burns your eyes but it's less horrible than burned mouse nest stink.

Any of you liemen know of a quick way to de-stink a house quickly? My wife's family is coming over on Saturday. Good times.

LOL

Ozium.


Works for me every time I broil a mouse nest.

This the second best Christmas story ever.

I just found this doing a nice little google search.

Not sure if it works, or really what it says, but maybe it'll help.

http://cleanmyspace.com/diy-natural-hom ... resheners/

Thank you for the good ideas liemen. I will purchase some of the items mentioned above for future events.

I went to Home Depot early today and got assorted anti-stink products and also followed j-cubed's idea of renting an ozone generator. It's a pretty small device and comes with a floor fan like you see in highway rest stop mens rooms when the attendant decides to dry the floor he just mopped so he could spread the shitpissjizzblood bacteria evenly across the entire floor.

When I walked in my house, it still reeked of broiled mouse nest with rich overtones of vinegar. Never ever ever do the boiling vinegar treatment unless you have a weird vinegar fetish. I'm sure someone here either has that fetish or will develop it in the near future.

We shall see what the next 24 hours brings.

A while back some idiot smoked me out. Nothing really gets the odors out but time and cleaning.

Good luck, Doc, you're gonna need it.

24 hours of the ozone machine + generic brand Febreze on fabrics + Baffled's link on homemade scents seems to have done the trick.

Now my house smells like cinnamon and sunshine.

Thanks for all suggestions.