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Hi All
In a very off-putting development in our household there is a dead rat under my kitchen somewhere. 99.9% sure its a deceased rat as we had poison down, the poison disappeared and now the kitchen smells vile. I've checked the easy to reach spots like behind kickboards and so on but I'm pretty certain its in the very cramped narrow crawl space under the kitchen floor.
I have never done it myself before but I do know that its possible to access the crawl space via the hall and then sniper-crawl to the underneath the kitchen as we had a plumber manage this once a few years ago. I am really not very keen on doing this at all, yet alone to try and locate a dead rat.
But, I'm not sure what other options there are. I am thinking of buying a cheap bore-hole camera off Amazon so I can at least try and see what the hell is going on down there first.
I guess my questions are this:
Is it worth grimacing my way through this horrible job or should I just wait it out until it decomposes and mummifies itself?
Also, assuming I can even get to it, if the carcass is a disgusting pile of goo and I cannot bag it, is there something I could add to it to break it down/cover the stench? (i.e that I can legally procure and don't need to get off the dark-web).
Please tell me I'm not the only one this has happened to...I can't lie, its really put a damper on my week so far.