after spending the weekend working on 'yucky smells' (possibly just 'old wood'), i have found the following...
1- two rooms of my house have crawl spaces with a strong old wood smell in the crawl space (the rest of the house sits on concrete). the 'wood smell' is similar to some antique shops i have been in. i first thought the smell was animal/bug related but after crawling both of them and spraying a bleach solution i found one space free of all signs and the other had tremendous signs of poop piles and cacoons carcasses. the one with no signs had plenty of the odor so after a while i realized that both crawl spaces had a strong 'old wood' smell that is not pleasant. the odd thing is that one of the rooms has a strong draft of air coming into the house thru the crawl space covering where the other didn't (each crawl space is seperated by the rest of the house sitting between them)...i'd like to eliminate the wood smell and then eliminate the inflow of air from the crawl spaces. advice?
2nd discovery was that bleach didn't get that same 'old wood' smell out of my cabinets (which only have wood tops beneath the formica attached to metal cabinetry), what will eliminate odors from old wood?
3rd question - does attic conditions cause air to flow into your home (possibly thru a crawl space) and if so 'how do you isolate the attic and the interior so they are independanly vented'?
4th question - should crawl spaces be vented to out side air to keep odors down?
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