Whats that smell in the closet?

On Friday we responded to a call about an odor in a closet. When we arrived we could tell that it was definitely a dead animal odor. The tech went into the attic and retrieved a female rat and 4 young. He then treated the area with enzymes to eliminate the odor, problem solved!

Or not, on Tues the customer called back and stated that she was away for the weekend and when she returned the odor was still present. We sent our tech out again and yes the odor was definitely still present. Again we went up into the attic and after looking and looking we finally found it…on the other side of the closet there was a nest of baby rats.  So, we treated it again with enzymes and problem solved….

Or so we thought once again…..Thursday morning the customer phones in again and stated that the odor is worse than ever..so we took another trip out there….we met the customers daughter…there was low to no odor….in the closet..in the attic there was NO odor!! But, the customer wanted us to cut a hole into the interior wall of the closet so we did…but even with the hole cut there was still NO odor coming from the wall…she did however have an ionizer running in the closet to circulate the air.We think that the filter on the ionizer was holding and emitting the odor…so we suggested that she not run that for a few days and see if the odor dissipates.