We've had a disaster, please read

[MotorSeven]

Is there no way to air out your crawlspace?

 

[RSKY]

As for Frebreze, on the first night we put our clothes in trash bags with a Downey sheet and sprayed Frebreze all in each bag. Did not help any, well maybe a little. Still had to be washed three times to get all the smell out. First time with vinegar, second with baking soda, last time with double the amount of detergent. Most the smell gone.

 

[s219]

Wow, sorry to hear this. Makes for a great story, but not so funny when it happens to you! I hope things go well from here.

 

[teejk]

This is supposed to be a top notch skunk remedy. I can't vouch for it, but I have seen it in multiple places for years.

The Recipie & Directions

We have had the "opportunity" to use that recipe (twice in a 2 week period...slow learner of a dog I guess) and it actually worked pretty well. Our recipe called specifically for Dawn dish detergent. The Dawn cuts the oil in the musk allowing the hyd prox and baking soda go to work on breaking down the smell. We were fortunate in that the dog did not make it into the house. The odor of a direct shot is much worse than a road kill (almost gagging) and is one of those things that will get into your sinuses so you can enjoy it from time to time for a week or so. And as noted, for several weeks a faint odor returned when the dog got wet.

 

[RSKY]

Got a possum this morning. Trouble is he didn't smell like he had been sprayed. Hope he was the right one. Traps set out and baited again. Using the humane cage type traps. Wish they made something like a huge mousetrap. I would set one out,....no,....that would be too quick. I want this skunk to suffer.

House smelled better this morning but we could still smell it. Wife opened a drawer I had missed and the smell filled that bedroom. Probably have to lime under the house and put new plastic down.

RSKY

 

[cqaigy2]

We use a product called Skunk-Off. Its an enzyme type product that doesn't mask the smell, it breaks up the molecules of crotyl mercaptan, isopentyle mercaptan and methyl crotyl disulfide (in the ratio of 4:4:3, of course) that skunks discharge. You can get it at a pet store or TSC or maybe wallyworld.

You can try after shave or mint mouthwash to clean up the place. To keep skunks away from an area, spray regularly with ammonia. They have a good memory of where ammonia has been used to dis-invite them.

We've used an enzyme deodorizer too and it work very well. It doesn't seem to damage things like some of the other "recipes" suggested and it doesn't come back.:thumbsup:

 

[Stimw]

My neighbors have had a bad smell in their doublewide for about 3 weeks.
They had the AC guy check their unit for something dead, nothing?
The smell got worse when it warned up which our temp has been up and down a lot!
yesterday they called out Critter Removal. The guy couldn't find it because the home is low to the ground so he came back today to try from a different angle of the home.
He found a dead STINKY Opossum! Which he put in a bag and brought back out.
He said it was the worst dead animal he had ever dealt with!
He said the stink even came through his respirator and he almost barfed in it!
The company charged $99. total for the removal.

 

[9973720wb19]

that stinks

 

[jel1988]

Call someone who does smoke and fire restoration, their ozone equipment should work.

 

[vwnotrunning]

We had skunks under the house. Had a sleight odor, but they had a fight either one thing one evening and the spray was permeating the house. Hooked up an exhaust fan to draw air out from under the house for about 2 weeks. Sucking air out from under the house caused some air to get drawn from the interior and the smell was out of the house. We used the recipe that called for dawn and it worked fairly good on the dogs. The will smell again some week later when they get wet.