I smelled an acrid, foul smell in my closet, thinking it was a bat in my attic, I hired a contractor to remove the bats.
Much to my surprise, it turned out that my closet had a plastic light fixture that had cracked and was emitting formaldehyde fumes (formaldehyde stinks when heated).
The contractor replaced the plastic light fixture with a ceramic one, and the toxic smell is gone now.

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says...

I smelled an acrid, foul smell in my closet, thinking it was a bat in my attic, I hired a contractor to remove the bats.
Much to my surprise, it turned out that my closet had a plastic light fixture that had cracked and was emitting formaldehyde fumes (formaldehyde stinks when heated).
The contractor replaced the plastic light fixture with a ceramic one, and the toxic smell is gone now.




Lots of plastics contain formaldehyde.

You can say that the polysester in your cloths do also.

On 8/17/2019 12:50 PM, Ralph Mowery wrote:
In article ,
says...

I smelled an acrid, foul smell in my closet, thinking it was a bat in my attic, I hired a contractor to remove the bats.
Much to my surprise, it turned out that my closet had a plastic light fixture that had cracked and was emitting formaldehyde fumes (formaldehyde stinks when heated).
The contractor replaced the plastic light fixture with a ceramic one, and the toxic smell is gone now.




Lots of plastics contain formaldehyde.

You can say that the polysester in your cloths do also.

OMG, my clothes? I'm going naked from now on. Not taking any chances.

In alt.home.repair, on Sat, 17 Aug 2019 13:23:27 -0400, Ed Pawlowski
wrote:

On 8/17/2019 12:50 PM, Ralph Mowery wrote:
In article ,
says...

I smelled an acrid, foul smell in my closet, thinking it was a bat in my attic, I hired a contractor to remove the bats.
Much to my surprise, it turned out that my closet had a plastic light fixture that had cracked and was emitting formaldehyde fumes (formaldehyde stinks when heated).
The contractor replaced the plastic light fixture with a ceramic one, and the toxic smell is gone now.

Versatile contractor. That's good.




Lots of plastics contain formaldehyde.

You can say that the polysester in your cloths do also.

OMG, my clothes? I'm going naked from now on. Not taking any chances.

Just carry an open bottle of negative formaldehyde with you and you'll
be okay.

On 8/17/2019 11:16 AM, micky wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on Sat, 17 Aug 2019 13:23:27 -0400, Ed Pawlowski
wrote:

On 8/17/2019 12:50 PM, Ralph Mowery wrote:
In article ,
says...

I smelled an acrid, foul smell in my closet, thinking it was a bat in my attic, I hired a contractor to remove the bats.
Much to my surprise, it turned out that my closet had a plastic light fixture that had cracked and was emitting formaldehyde fumes (formaldehyde stinks when heated).
The contractor replaced the plastic light fixture with a ceramic one, and the toxic smell is gone now.

Versatile contractor. That's good.




Lots of plastics contain formaldehyde.

You can say that the polysester in your cloths do also.

OMG, my clothes? I'm going naked from now on. Not taking any chances.

Just carry an open bottle of negative formaldehyde with you and you'll
be okay.



I will use anti-formaldehyde. That will stop the odor.