"effi" wrote in message
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"Jim Beaver" wrote in message
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My house was built this year.

assuming you mean 2005 (see below)

I have several medicine/linen/towel cabinets in and around the bathroom.
All of them constructed at the same time, presumably from the same wood.
All of them painted at the same time, coat for coat. All but one are
normal. The abnormal one smells, from day one till now, 12 months later,

sure your house wasn't built last year (2004)?

as though the paint isn't quite dry or something. It's an unpleasant
smell that has not faded much in a year. The cabinet directly below it
has no smell, despite being done exactly simultaneously with the same
materials. There's nothing in these cabinets. They're empty. Except for
the smell in one. What the hey?

Jim Beaver


solution: remove smelly cabinet, wait a few days (or weeks) and see if
smell abates, then replace with nonsmelly cabinet if cabinet is indeed
source of smell

House was built in 2003-2004, cabinetry installed and painted in 2004. This
is not a unit medicine cabinet like you'd install in a hole in your drywall,
it's a built-in cabinet, really more of a linen closet. I only called it a
cabinet because it is not floor-to-ceiling in height. It's 4 feet high, 17
inches deep, 27 inches across. There's another one roughly the same size
directly beneath it, built and painted at the same time, but which doesn't
smell. Removing either would involve ripping it out down to the studs,
removing casing, etc. -- in other words a task equivalent more or less to
removing a small closet from any room. Not very practical.

I'm just trying to figure out if anyone has an explanation for one
closet/cabinet smelling bad and the one below it not smelling, when built
and constructed identically and simultaneously.

Jim Beaver