no, but I know how to kill snakes and get the mould to leave.... 
strange fishy smell
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No electrical item is going to smell for six years, the material would wear away.
If it comes back in summer when the ground is drier then it's linked to something drying out that is wet in winter. Is the house built on an old tip? Was it once industrial site and selenium contaminated the land?
If it comes back in summer when the ground is drier then it's linked to something drying out that is wet in winter. Is the house built on an old tip? Was it once industrial site and selenium contaminated the land?
Perhaps it was about a different plaice.
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Only been smelling for about four years she intimated. Then only in the summer, so really could be electrical.
That said, I am thinking paint. Not mould or snakes.
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Yep I'm with Col and John on this. Get ya fatha (your father), to check lightbulb sockets, mains socket etc. You'll probably find it's the source of your fishy problem... unless as col says..... no better not go there!
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Can't be. The smell you smell are particles from the plastic - but it runs out and turns to charcoal. When the particles have all gone ( aromatic hydrocarbons) then the smell goes too. Just like a room deodorant. It's schoolboy chemistry.
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Joe, any other time I would agree with you 100% but about 9 years ago we lived in a house and experienced the same issue for years and years. To be fair I was only at home now and again so I wasn't that bothered/interested. When I stopped working away and spent more time at home it really did get to me. I decided to investigate one evening and that's when I discovered this similar smell to the OP was coming from a Light bulb fitting.
I must admit, I never believed the wife either or was that interested in investigating the source until I actually spent any time at home.
I must admit, I never believed the wife either or was that interested in investigating the source until I actually spent any time at home.
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I lived there Joe (admittedly intermittently), it happened.
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