Need some assistance in diagnosing\/fixing a smell in the front of my basement. Not sure what it is, and before I start ripping up the floor or punching holes in the walls to see behind them for mold, I could use an expert to come and help determine the origin of the smell.<\/p>\n
Mold? Not sure, but it doesn’t smell musty to me. Something else.<\/p>\n
From the heating valves? Perhaps dirty water in the steam heat system is coming out of the valves in the front of the basement and making the smell?<\/p>\n %<\/span><\/span> | %<\/span><\/a> | %<\/span><\/a> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Need some assistance in diagnosing\/fixing a smell in the front of my basement. Not sure what it is, and before I start ripping up the floor or punching holes in the walls to see behind them for mold, I could use an expert to come and help determine the origin of the smell. Mold? Not…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24399,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-28235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-odor"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/01\/diagnosing-a-sm-1\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"diagnosing a smell in basement","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/01\/diagnosing-a-sm-1\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/01\/diagnosing-a-sm-1\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Odor","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"ctfiii"}],"creator":["ctfiii"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2009-01-28T12:08:05Z","datePublished":"2009-01-28T12:08:05Z","dateModified":"2009-01-28T12:08:06Z"},"rendered":"