Re: Why are odor questions never answered? Posted by hj on
September 27, 1998 at 00:17:23: In response to Re: Why are odor
questions never answered? One of the reasons is that there is no
one answer for all the questions. In fact every odor problem
could have a unique solution which would only be apparent to
someone at the site.  Years ago a customer had a "sewer gas"
odor problem. After spending several hours trying every possible
way to induce the odor such as smoke tests, peppermint
injection, etc. the odor refused to appear. I left the site to
get addition supplies, and when I returned, the customer took me
into the bathroom and said the odor had appeared while I was
gone. One sniff, and I told him that it was not a sewer gas
smell, but that the plastic socket on the light fixture had been
charred and when the light was left on for a long time, such as
while I was gone, the charred plastic heated up and released the
odor. A new socket cured his problem.  As far as the odors
people write about, they can be