Dead Rat Odor Removal?

opnspaces wrote:
Are you sure it's a dead animal? It seems that you said in one of your posts that the strong urine smell is in a basement compartment near the toilet. Maybe you have a toilet seal or black tank leak.

I don't know for sure that there is a carcus, only the smell and wires with the covering eaten off, lots of chewed wood on the inside of the electrical box and the floor vents where the plastic was eaten and the teeth marks are very clear.

I replaced the old toilet with a new one and the area around the floor fitting was in good shape and no hint of any issue there. This RV has two separate basements and the toilet is directly over the electrical box. The other basement, which has a heater vent is the one with the strong urine smell. there were also holes in the vent hose where the buggers ate through.

In the 2nd basement, where the bad urine smell is, there are some 6 inch diameter darkish circles where it looks like a cat pee'd. Did not find any cat hair as it looked like the basements were well cleaned and then loaded with dryer sheets.

Once the dryer sheets were removed the urine smell came back quickly.

Hopefully next week I can remove the carpet in the basements and super clean the remaining wood before installing new I/O carpet.

I received the Earth Care Odor Removing Bag today and will add it to the electrical box and heater area where the rat smell seems to be so predominate.

Really anxious to see how it works. Next plan is to obtain an ozone machine like suggested by others.