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I was blown away by a foul smell. I use a gun safe to house my collection and somehow got a mouse stuck in my safe and die. The smell is overwhelming. I found his (or her) corpse entangled in a three ring binder I quickly disposed of. I wiped down the vinyl pages with Clorox disinfectant wipes and dried them off. I did find a 1/2" bolt hole in the floor meant to bolt the safe down (it is bolted to concrete but had an extra hole). I filled the hole with a spray in foam rodent barrier. I put an automobile "fabreeze" air scent in it. It is carpeted. My wife suggested some Lysol spray on a day I can empty the safe and air it out.
Any other ideas please on getting rid of the dead mouse smell.
I also put a snap trap in it so at least the next one will be easy to find.
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Valued Member
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vinegar will take the smell away.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Now that's a good story. Acetone, in this instance, won't do any good!
Thumbs up for vinegar.
Edited by ijn1944
05/02/2023 9:53 pm
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Valued Member
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Just squirt vinegar with spray bottle on the carpet?
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Valued Member
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Soak wipe & scrub, then repeat.
Soak overnight add more vinegar then scrub/absorb.
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Pillar of the Community
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Go to your local funeral home or call a corpse cleanup service . Both are able to help !  |
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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A very long soak in acetone should do wonders for the mouse.
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United States
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Activated charcoal. John1  |
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Pillar of the Community
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Dead rodent smell is the worst. I was on vacation in Atlanta & had a rat crawl into my car's cabin air vent in a parking garage. Somehow it got stuck & died....probably when I turned the AC on. This was over a long 4th of July weekend, the AC wouldn't blow cold air due to the blower motor being jammed, & the car started to reek after a couple days. When I got back home the mechanic I used was able to pull a bit more than half of the corpse out of the system. I ended up parking the car against a tree where I knew an ant bed was & leaving it until the 8-lane ant trail into the car disappeared. That got rid of the smell but every time it rained for the next several years a little bit of eau de death would ease out of the vents. Did I mention the car was less than 6 months old when this happened?
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Pillar of the Community
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I once picked up a mint package of Canadian coins, the person was a smoker and the smoke smell permeated everything. I ended up putting it in a plastic bag with activated charcoal from a fish tank filter. Took a few days for the smell to go away. Activated charcoal works as does sodium bicarbonate (Baking soda), they do take a while and you have to keep the safe closed. Be careful with vinegar or other chemicals as some can tarnish coins (DO NOT USE WINDEX or anything with ammonia)
Edited by hfjacinto
05/03/2023 09:00 am
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United States
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I tried the acetone soak. The mouse is still dead.
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Yikes!  Remember that episode of Seinfeld, "The Smelly Car?" You might have to solve this problem a similar way.  |
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Did you carpet the safe yourself? Maybe just replace the carpet.
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Replacing the carpet, as kbbpll suggests, may shorten the process of getting rid of the smell. Quote:
I tried the acetone soak. The mouse is still dead. |
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