Buford_Dawg
Senior Member
About 1 week ago, my wife and I heard some scratching inside a interior wall of our house on the first floor. Whatever it was was small but scratched at one spot inside this wall 5 or 6 different times lasting about 5 seconds each during this day. We heard no more scratching since but yesterday and now today, we are noticing a slight "DEAD animal" odor in the hall way right at the spot of the scratching. It is detectable at the floor/carpet level very easily, but not if you are upright walking around in the hallway.
I have 2 questions
1) How in the HECK did this animal (assume mouse or mole) get in a interior wall in the middle of my house with the wall having NO contact with a exterior wall, plus 2x4s every 12 inches or maybe 16, I'm not sure? The house is only 16 months old, so could whatever it is been there during construction and was boarded up in the 2x4 wall?
2) How long should I expect to have this odor? My wife as put one of those scent units in the closest electric outlet and it overcomes the bad odor, but curious how long the bad odor will last.
This is strange to say the least and driving me whacky to figure out how this could happen.
I have 2 questions
1) How in the HECK did this animal (assume mouse or mole) get in a interior wall in the middle of my house with the wall having NO contact with a exterior wall, plus 2x4s every 12 inches or maybe 16, I'm not sure? The house is only 16 months old, so could whatever it is been there during construction and was boarded up in the 2x4 wall?
2) How long should I expect to have this odor? My wife as put one of those scent units in the closest electric outlet and it overcomes the bad odor, but curious how long the bad odor will last.
This is strange to say the least and driving me whacky to figure out how this could happen.