Things that I have learned tonight.
 

Things that I have learned tonight. 1. Lazy plumbers that leave teflon tape rolls under houses will often cut vent screens to allow pipes to be passed under the house. 2. I really do have a ton of black widows around my home at night. 3. That I'm 6' tall and 195 pounds and I REALLY don't like to go under my house with 16" of crawl space in the dark. 4. That "that smell" that doesn't go away in a week really does get stronger over time. 5. If you use an infrared thermometer you can tell if the Skunk that might be sleeping is the same temp as the ground that it's "sleeping" on. 6. The top side is the "best side of the ground temp skunk. 7. a towel wrapped around your nose drenched in Vanilla extract will cover up 70% of the stench.

Only thing that smells worse than a skunk is a dead skunk. ;)
Would have been money well spent to pay someone to do this.

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Oh man, what a horrible scenario! Good luck. Too bad you can't get that plumber to take care of it. I hate black widows.

+1 more night of the smell. and missing some work hours while dialing for dead critter removal

Joanna told me to send Cole, my 45 pound cattle dog down to fetch it. I think that he would have just rolled in it.

I always like peppermint or wintergreen for covering foul odors.

Organic vapor cartridge in respirator. Full size trash bag on arm. Grab skunk and roll bag over skunk. Twist end of bag and knot the twist.

Typar suits are also nice for about ten dollars. The ones with booties and hoods will keep the spiders off...

Black widows suck, the rest is a tolerable situation. IMO

Man you know how to PARTY!

I spent a long day under my old house digging a trench under the AC vent lines to get access to the kitchen area of the house. I saw a lot of strange turds down there. I think they were coon droppings. I did a very solid job of sealing up the vents.

I am happy to have a house on a concrete slab now.

Hopefully you have cured your problem. :eek:

I'd probably suck it up and go get the dead critter but only after checking and being disgusted with the price an exterminator would charge to go in and do it for me.

BTW, raccoons are carriers of a little nasty called Raccoon Roundworm (baylisascaris). From what I understand, millions of eggs are shed in the droppings. After the droppings desiccate, these eggs can become airborne if disturbed. They can cause all sorts of problems up to and including blindness and death.

So, if you go under your house again, Glen, wear, at a minimum, a respirator if you indeed have coon droppings down there. I'd even go as far as to maybe put down a plastic barrier.

We have a large colony of buzzards that hang out around the college.

Last winter, over the 2 week break while the college was closed one of them died. Up on the roof. Next to the fresh air intakes for the AC system for one of our buildings.

Took a few days to find after we all came back from the holiday... they had the fire department out thinking it was a leak or something bad from one of the chemistry labs in the building, etc. Awful.

Thanks, I learned that AFTER I was out. That was over 25 years ago so I think I survived the worms. I have a slab house now. I will not be going under a house anymore. BTDT.

I heard that the only thing in the world that smells worse than a sardine was female sardine's .......

naw I better not. never mind.

Here ya go:

French Fried Skunk Recipe - Food.com - 75396

Let us know how it turns out....:D

When that happened to me...
Crawl/jump suite, respirator, cheap watchman's cap, crawled under the house with a long handled shovel. Scooped up dead critter, crawled out dragging it behind me, deposited in trash bag once out.

You won't if you have a leaky pipe. ;)

Ask me how I know.

Just in time for the week-end! the smell is gone inside of my house!