Dead beastie under my decking....

[Dover Nige]

I have a dead beastie under my decking. There's no way I want to start pulling up the boards and there's no real way I can physically get under there.

I think it may be something a local fox has had as there's been one knocking around my garden some time now. As a result, the area around the decking stinks of rotting something or other and a zillion flies are lurking. Luckily the area in question is away down the bottom of the garden next to my shed.

Any suggestions..? Do I leave it to decompose or do I really need to start pulling boards up..? Can I spray disinfectant or something to help get rid of it...?

Cheers chaps.

[annodomini2]

Just wait for it to turn into a Zombie and it'll walk off on its own

[jeff m]

Enhancing the decomposition of previously living things. Lime.

Pulling up one or two of the boards may be a little quicker.

Note to Mods, could someone check on his wife

[Dover Nige]

Wife..? What wife..?! My ex lives back in Wales, 250 miles away and although she'd on occasion be a good candidate to vanish under my decking I wouldn't waste the petrol on going to get her down here to Kent.....lol!

I'm going to give it a week, then if it's still whiffy, I think the boards will have to come up.

I wonder what it is under there....

[geordieelvis]

Rats absolutely adore the conditions under decking, its damp and humid and dark.
I would put money on that your smell is coming from a dead 'un

[Scraggles]

get a long rake or squirt lots of bleach there...

[rlw]

In this heat the smell should go off in a couple of days as the corpse dries out completely so I reckon leave it until Saturday afternoon and then see.

We came back from 4 days away and our house was not a nice place to be - very hot and very smelly - and after a bit of poking around (and noting the black fur all over the dining room carpet) a very small decomposing mice was found. God they smell..........