After putting holes in the bathroom wall and seeking to find a bad shower connection, I've concluded that it's not the bathroom.
The smell pooling in the hallway is coming from inside or just outside the furnace closet.
One day after years of logging in my calendar "Wet Mop Smell; no rain"..... "Wet Mop Smell; nobody doing laundry upstairs".....
Water started drizzling out of the vent near the furnace closet. Hallenlujah! The source at last!
I was out of town, but it was reported to me that one or two units upstairs (there are four units in all; I'm on the ground) had a water heater failure (simultaneously?). They blamed it on the developer, saying his crew never put a pan under the unit, or installed the pans wrong.
But additionally, they also just discovered that the unit immediately above me had the hose to their built-in furnace humidifier disconnected. So if the humidifier dial was turned up, there was a water source with a hose to nowhere. They reconnected it.
So with new water heaters upstairs and a reconnected humidifier hose, why suddenly the wet mop smell all over again?
We had some hard rains, but we've had the smell during and after a lengthy drought.
A new tenant just moved into the unit immediately above. There was a period of vacancy through August, during which time the mustiness was at a minimum. Maybe just residual.
Now it's fresh and toxic and something to worry about.
So I ordered a camera on a long snake to attach to my cellphone.
Where should I drill holes to start looking upward from the furnace closet and hallway in my house?
Thank you. Rox
The smell pooling in the hallway is coming from inside or just outside the furnace closet.
One day after years of logging in my calendar "Wet Mop Smell; no rain"..... "Wet Mop Smell; nobody doing laundry upstairs".....
Water started drizzling out of the vent near the furnace closet. Hallenlujah! The source at last!
I was out of town, but it was reported to me that one or two units upstairs (there are four units in all; I'm on the ground) had a water heater failure (simultaneously?). They blamed it on the developer, saying his crew never put a pan under the unit, or installed the pans wrong.
But additionally, they also just discovered that the unit immediately above me had the hose to their built-in furnace humidifier disconnected. So if the humidifier dial was turned up, there was a water source with a hose to nowhere. They reconnected it.
So with new water heaters upstairs and a reconnected humidifier hose, why suddenly the wet mop smell all over again?
We had some hard rains, but we've had the smell during and after a lengthy drought.
A new tenant just moved into the unit immediately above. There was a period of vacancy through August, during which time the mustiness was at a minimum. Maybe just residual.
Now it's fresh and toxic and something to worry about.
So I ordered a camera on a long snake to attach to my cellphone.
Where should I drill holes to start looking upward from the furnace closet and hallway in my house?
Thank you. Rox