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About a week ago I notice a smell in the main bathroom. Not a normal bathroom smell.
It was like a really strong vomit smell, but the smell also resembled yeast.
Mind you this all happened after I went into the bathroom and noticed an unflushed toilet. I flushed and the water started rising.  I quickly turned off the water. After I turned off the water what was in the toilet went down the drain.  Disaster averted there.
I come back into the bathroom later and there is this smell. I check all over and find nothing that would be causing it. I complain to the resident Plumber and he says it does not smell like a sewage, but a rotting animal.  YUCK!!! He says he will pull the toilet over the weekend and check to make sure there are no blockages.
Next step, bleach the bathroom from top to bottom. Smell remains.  Starting to believe hubby may be right about the smell.
Fast forward to last night, I am taking a bath and looking around the bathroom. Hmm, what could be the cause of the smell? (which I don't think smells like a dead animal) I notice my Bamboo plant has been looking rather sad since the smell appeared. Then I start to get really nervous thinking it's some kind of gas and it's killing my plant.
So being as nervous as that made me I got out of the bath to look at the Bamboo. Interesting, the smell seems stronger as I move closer to the plant. I lean in to look at the plant. The stems are starting to brown, which makes no sense as I always keep up with watering it and have managed to keep it alive for over a year. So I then move in even closer.
OMG!! I found the source of the smell!!! A tiny little bamboo plant with 3 stalks was producing enough smell to make me gag everytime I had entered the bathroom over the past week.
I bring the plant to hubby and say, "I think I found the source of the smell!" He could not believe this. He smells from about a foot away and says, "Yeah, there is a smell, but I am not sure it the same one."
So I tell him to bring the plant closer to his nose. When he did he started gagging and said, "OMG, it's the smell!!"
The smell was rotting plant!! I prompty brought it outside of the house.
The smell is completely gone from the bathroom.
I am so happy hubby hadn't started ripping open the walls to look for a dead animal.  And I am even happier that the smell is gone. |
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| GROSS! But I'm glad the solution was cheap and painless. Imagine if there was a dead animal lurking in the bathroom, or even worse, down the toilet. |
| BLECH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
I was thinking you were going to pull a dead snake from your toilet!
Glad it was a rotting plant! |
Oh, I know that smell - it's horrible! I had a schefflera that did the same. ew ew ew it's bad.
Glad you found it without having to dismantle the bathroom.  |
Wow!
I was gonna suggest a looksee in the vent stack... well I guess bamboo kinda looks like a vent stack!  |
| I also know that smell! I hate it!!! You have to give your bamboo a rinse over every once in awhile which I have forgotten to do on several occasions! Otherwise, I find them almost impossible to get rid of b/c they don't die [even when I'm trying to kill it]!!! |
I have got 3 giant african land snails, and there is a funny smell coming from the tank. The smallest one looks sort of dead.....you wouldnt like to come and sniff it for me...pretty please...please...I darent!!  |
It's nice to be able to walk in the bathroom without that putrid stench hitting me. It will enjoy it more when I take my bath and I will smell good smells instead of bad.
KTB wrote:
I have got 3 giant african land snails, and there is a funny smell coming from the tank. The smallest one looks sort of dead.....you wouldnt like to come and sniff it for me...pretty please...please...I darent!! |
If that includes a free trip to the UK, I'm in! |
OMG SNAILS BLEUGH!!
I am more afraid of snails than any other creature. I'm sure they are the fastest things on the planet- they just pretend to be slow- then go like billy-o when you're not looking. *shivers*
UGH a smelly one. EEEEWWWWWWWWW
OK maybe those dinner plate spiders are worse..... maybe |
When I was a little kid, I had a pet turtle, Pokey. Poor Pokey died. But I loved him so much I couldn't tell my mom, or throw him away.
Pokey rotted. I mean, gross, stinking rot! My parents spent a couples days looking for the rot (remember, I never told them, cuz they would have thrown him out!)
But then, but about the 4th day, it was so horrible I had to tell me.
Every now and then, I can clearly remember that smell, and I gag....
I never owned another turtle. |
OMG!!! Elissa I expected you to write you found a dead thing in the plant. Whew luckily it was the plant that died.
I once read that patients with compromised immune systems can't recieve flowers as the bacteria in the water of dead plants is pretty wicked.
Glad you didn't have to rip out walls to find the source of the smell!
Marianne |
That is so strange.. I never heard of that before  |
okay deb, that was just overly gross and funny at the same time!! i think it goes up there with turtle mishaps....at least mine lived...duct tape and all....poor little pokey....
what the heck is a dinner plate spider????? |
rstevovich wrote:
That is so strange.. I never heard of that before |
Weird... me either. I kept waiting for you to say you found a dead animal in the plant's pot. lol That is a crazy story! I guess the plant was trying to tell you it doesn't like being in the bathroom. |
| LOL a dinner plate spider is one the size of a dinner plate. Not one you might find lurking behind your potatoes |
Hint of Mischief wrote:
LOL a dinner plate spider is one the size of a dinner plate. Not one you might find lurking behind your potatoes |
get outta town i want to see a picture of this!! |
Ok Darcy...this is just for you. A true story.
I was cleaning the bathtub (once hee hee) and there was a big, fat spider walking in it. Fat...really fat...I mean FAT!
So after my initial freakout, I picked up my slipper and whacked ol' fattie.
EEEECCCCKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Outta ol' fattie's crushed body ran like a million baby spiders!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
She wasn't fat...she was preggers with a million babies! I ALMOST FAINTED!!!
That...was my grossest moment ever! (even worst than dead Pokie!)
(no wonder I'm so neurotic!) |
Oh Deb,
That was REALLY GROSS!
I uploaded a picture of the Lucky Bamboo with the funk on it.
This is an up close picture that I took yesterday. I had not noticed anything odd looking about it until that day that I found out what the smell was. It has been sitting out on the back patio. I have not wanted to touch it, but it will be in the trash Monday morning. |
debcram wrote:
Ok Darcy...this is just for you. A true story.
I was cleaning the bathtub (once hee hee) and there was a big, fat spider walking in it. Fat...really fat...I mean FAT!
So after my initial freakout, I picked up my slipper and whacked ol' fattie.
EEEECCCCKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Outta ol' fattie's crushed body ran like a million baby spiders!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
She wasn't fat...she was preggers with a million babies! I ALMOST FAINTED!!!
That...was my grossest moment ever! (even worst than dead Pokie!)
(no wonder I'm so neurotic!) |
omg....i would have FREAKED out!!!!!! i can handle a lot of thing...bugs are NOT one of them......ick ick ick...you actually made me shutter on that one! |
Here is the cause of the smell! Ewww!
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Joahaeyo wrote:
I also know that smell! I hate it!!! You have to give your bamboo a rinse over every once in awhile which I have forgotten to do on several occasions! Otherwise, I find them almost impossible to get rid of b/c they don't die [even when I'm trying to kill it]!!! |
Bamboo grows wild in Kentucky - there are forests of them all around. They are very sturdy plants (trees) and if one is planted in your yard you will have dozens, it is like a weed. Bamboo floors are very popular here, it is so sturdy and hardy. Glad you found the source of the stink and got rid of it. |
