Odor in cellar

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Sharon Bowman

Sharon Bowman
I just went down to my cellar, which is beneath my apartment building, and lo and behold, there was a horrendous odor in the place (it's a large area, with an earth floor and separate doors for the different inhabitants of the building). It smelled as though a rotten egg factory and a septic tank had gotten angry and fought a bitter battle to the death.

Assuming it will go away, but in the meantime (or should it last), what danger do I run, w/r/t my wines? The door to my cellar is slatted, so for the purposes of odor, it's as though the space were submerged in the foul effluvia.
 
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
Odor in cellarI just went down to my cellar, which is beneath my apartment building, and lo and behold, there was a horrendous odor in the place (it's a large area, with an earth floor and separate doors for the different inhabitants of the building). It smelled as though a rotten egg factory and a septic tank had gotten angry and fought a bitter battle to the death.

Assuming it will go away, but in the meantime (or should it last), what danger do I run, w/r/t my wines? The door to my cellar is slatted, so for the purposes of odor, it's as though the space were submerged in the foul effluvia.
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Prolonged exposure is definitely something to be avoided. Exposure for a few days shouldn't present any issues (IMO). Bottom line: get someone to deal with it ASAP.

Mark Lipton
 
Sounds like your building was erected on an old burial ground. If your dining room chairs start self-stacking, worry.

Actually, I concur with the others. An old roommate of Theresa's once kept a bottle of bubbly in her bedroom for just a few weeks. She was a Wiccan, and there was a lot of incense, etc. (I tried not to ask what the "etc." entailed.) Lo and behold, when opened, the wine smelled very strongly of incense.

Of course, it was VC, so the incense was an improvement.
 

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November 17, 2009
Rotting Deer Carcasses in Pa. Yard Raise Stink By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 4:03 p.m. ET

KITTANNING, Pa. (AP) -- Hundreds of rotting deer carcasses in a southwestern Pennsylvania yard are causing a stink among the neighbors. Randy Good of North Buffalo Township has a contract with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation to remove the animal carcasses from roads in five counties.

Good says he has been picking up 50 to 100 carcasses a day. To cope with demand, he has been dumping a few hundred at a time in his yard. He says weekend landfill closures and a broken truck have worsened the backlog.

Neighbors a half-mile away say they have resorted to burning candles in their homes to mask the stench.

Good says he has gotten a trash container that will help, but it will take a week or two to remove them all.
 
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