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  2. Weird sounds and smells in your home you should never ignore

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    The plastics, polymer and rubbers used to insulate appliances, fixtures and electrical outlets can emit a fishy smell when they heat up. If your house suddenly smells like low tide, start sniffing ...

  3. Deodorizing toilet seat - Wikipedia

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    It works by drawing air from the bowl, thus preventing odors from rising and wafting from the toilet bowl into the bathroom when the toilet is in use. The odors are drawn upwards through the independent overflow pipe within the cistern and then pass through the activated carbon filter, where they are totally eliminated.

  4. Air freshener - Wikipedia

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    Air fresheners from Febreze. Air fresheners are products designed to reduce unwanted odors in indoor spaces, or to introduce pleasant fragrances, or both. They typically emit fragrance to mask odors but may use other methods of action such as absorbing, bonding to, or chemically altering compounds in the air that produce smells, killing organisms that produce smells, or disrupting the sense of ...

  5. Professional Cleaners Swear You NEVER Clean These Five Filthy ...

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    Under Your Furniture. It's no surprise that the space underneath your furniture or appliance is a breeding ground for dust bunnies, but getting rid of them might easier said than done.

  6. It's Time to Ditch These 10 Cleaning Tips From Grandma - AOL

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    Soaking your shower head in vinegar overnight. Grandma isn't completely wrong here. However, we'd like to offer a modification to the process of cleaning your shower head with vinegar.

  7. Bucket toilet - Wikipedia

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    A plastic bucket fitted with a toilet seat for comfort and a lid and plastic bag for waste containment. A bucket toilet is a basic form of a dry toilet whereby a bucket (pail) is used to collect excreta. Usually, feces and urine are collected together in the same bucket, leading to odor issues.

  8. Thomas Crapper did not invent the flush toilet. [413] A forerunner of the modern toilet was invented by the Elizabethan courtier Sir John Harington in the 16th century, [414] and in 1775 the Scottish mechanic Alexander Cumming developed and patented a design for a toilet with an S-trap and flushing mechanism. [415]

  9. 'Unusual' smell prompts school closure

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    Contractors later discovered a seized motor on one of the school's convector heaters causing a burning smell to permeate the building. The school said there had been no risk of fire as the heater ...