Ever since we bought this house, it’s had this really weird smell.
- It’s not a bad smell.
It’s just a weird flowery smell that I don’t particularly care for. We have the carpets professionally cleaned and we wipe down all of the surface areas but the smell remains. We couldn’t figure out where it was coming from until we finally changed the air filter in our HVAC system. That’s when we discovered that the air filter had a little air freshener clipped onto it. It seems like the air freshener was made for this exact purpose. Needless to say, the air filter and air freshener went into the trash. Our new air filter has carbon in it so it should remove the remainder of the flowery smell. but now I’m starting to wonder why old homeowners needed an air filter air freshener to begin with. I hope there’s not some underlying stench in his house that we haven’t noticed. Probably not though. I’m hoping they just like the smell of fake flowers. I think we would have noticed it if there was mold or decay in the house by now. We are thinking about getting the ductwork all cleaned out in our HVAC system though too. That hasn’t been done yet. I don’t like the idea of somebody else’s old dust blowing around in my home. It’s time to make this house completely ours. We’ll probably get the whole HVAC system cleaned and oiled while we’re at it. it seems to be in good shape and we’d like to keep it that way. Owning our first home is stressful but I’m so glad we did it. Now we just need to get one thing done at a time.