Hot Attic Smell

Step 1 wear a pair of rubber gloves safety goggles a long sleeved shirt and pants to protect yourself from mold and its spores.

Hot attic smell.

The musty mold odor can creep down from your attic and take up residence in other areas of your home. Microbial volatile organic compounds mvoc are stinky gasses produced by attic mold. And infiltrate the airr in the duct even though it s not running. A little sealing up in the attic will do wonders.

I have a shop in my attic for some of my hobbies and it get s very hot in the summer. Sealing up your building envelope is the only way to go. I live in northern virginia hot humid climate in the summer and use heat pumps to heat and cool my house throughout the year. I have large attic with ridge vents and screened vents at either end of the attic to maintain air flow.

If you notice this type of odor coming from your attic avoid entering it unless you are wearing a proper respirator. Rodent droppings urine. This is a combination of lumber insulation shingles all getting cooked in this hot attic air. I would say eliminate the smell through ventilation.

Musty dirty animal and moldy smells in an attic create an unpleasant surprise when you go up to this easily overlooked space in the house. It might be you have a gap or air leak in the returrn air duct that is allowing this smell to get into ductwork. Where those wires punch through to the attic are rarely sealed properly or at all and that is just one more path for hot air to travel down into your house bringing that lovely odor with it.