Well, I'm not sure if my own situation is *worse,* but it certainly *stinks* more than yours, Chris.
You see, me, Dad, and my sisters pooled our money to buy Mom a new electric oven for Christmas. The old gas range has always been a bit flaky, and with new
grandkids in the house often (one of whom is FEARLESS -- climbs on on stoves *that have the burners on* in order to play with the overhead cupboards), we
wanted one with knobs up on the back instead of in front -- none of the gas ranges that were options offered rear knobs. Plus, the glass-top range is *neato
keen.*
So, we got it before Christmas, kept it hidden, did a fast install Christmas Eve eve while Mom was out shopping, and everything worked great -- the
"burners" go from zero to HOT HOT HOT in about 1.7sec flat. Wowsers.
But we didn't use the *oven* for over a week, due to holiday eating patterns. So when we finally tried to bake something... the entire house was filled
with an indescribably rank stench like the cross between a overflowing porta-john on a 90deg August day and a freshly-turned compost heap.
Now, the range has the extra warranty, and the manual actually *says* that a "foul odor" is *normal* until the insulation "burns in"
(choice of words mine, not theirs), but *this* is... Well! Being well equipped Handy Men, Dad and I proceed to disassemble the range as far as we can w/o
risking leaving evidence that would void the warranty (not too much, as it turns out). And find...
A stamping hole, purpose unkown, in the back panel of the oven, where the nice soft fur-like insulation is visible. As are the hundreds and hundreds of mouse
turds, and the spreading brown stain that appears to have been liquid feces or urine, probably both. And without disassembling the oven even further, it's
impossible to tell how much further inside the "between spaces" of the oven the mice got, leaving little... gifts. What we *do* know is that the
oven's self-cleaning feature won't get rid of this, since it's outside the oven proper, on the wrong side of the insulation.
Gah. Mice. Hate 'em. Must've got in during warehousing...
So, of course, I gotta wonder if the warranty will cover *this*.
(odd story about my family and Weird Smells -- many years ago, my mother ran over a long-dead roadkill skunk, which was, ah, *ripe* enough to *explode* on
contact... just coincendentally leaving its scent glands atop our car's catalytic converter. You wouldn't think the smell would penetrate the inside
of the car so easily. Every time the engine ran for more than a minute. For three. Whole. Months....)
You see, me, Dad, and my sisters pooled our money to buy Mom a new electric oven for Christmas. The old gas range has always been a bit flaky, and with new
grandkids in the house often (one of whom is FEARLESS -- climbs on on stoves *that have the burners on* in order to play with the overhead cupboards), we
wanted one with knobs up on the back instead of in front -- none of the gas ranges that were options offered rear knobs. Plus, the glass-top range is *neato
keen.*
So, we got it before Christmas, kept it hidden, did a fast install Christmas Eve eve while Mom was out shopping, and everything worked great -- the
"burners" go from zero to HOT HOT HOT in about 1.7sec flat. Wowsers.
But we didn't use the *oven* for over a week, due to holiday eating patterns. So when we finally tried to bake something... the entire house was filled
with an indescribably rank stench like the cross between a overflowing porta-john on a 90deg August day and a freshly-turned compost heap.
Now, the range has the extra warranty, and the manual actually *says* that a "foul odor" is *normal* until the insulation "burns in"
(choice of words mine, not theirs), but *this* is... Well! Being well equipped Handy Men, Dad and I proceed to disassemble the range as far as we can w/o
risking leaving evidence that would void the warranty (not too much, as it turns out). And find...
A stamping hole, purpose unkown, in the back panel of the oven, where the nice soft fur-like insulation is visible. As are the hundreds and hundreds of mouse
turds, and the spreading brown stain that appears to have been liquid feces or urine, probably both. And without disassembling the oven even further, it's
impossible to tell how much further inside the "between spaces" of the oven the mice got, leaving little... gifts. What we *do* know is that the
oven's self-cleaning feature won't get rid of this, since it's outside the oven proper, on the wrong side of the insulation.
Gah. Mice. Hate 'em. Must've got in during warehousing...
So, of course, I gotta wonder if the warranty will cover *this*.
(odd story about my family and Weird Smells -- many years ago, my mother ran over a long-dead roadkill skunk, which was, ah, *ripe* enough to *explode* on
contact... just coincendentally leaving its scent glands atop our car's catalytic converter. You wouldn't think the smell would penetrate the inside
of the car so easily. Every time the engine ran for more than a minute. For three. Whole. Months....)