I moved house a week ago. The assistant removal men absolutely stank – the kind that lingers metres away in the air even if you're outside. He was from India and had a distinct smell of spicy cuisine that's come out in his sweat (I'm emphatically not trying to be offensive, it's just what he smelled like).
It made me and his colleague feel sick but we were too polite to mention it in the moment. I refused to get in the van because it was unbearable, and said I'd just see them there. His boss afterwards texted me that he felt like he was gonna pass out, that the dude had been doing heavy manual work that morning, and will never hire him again cos of the smell.
When unloading my luggage, the guy only spent like 5 min total in my house. More than a week of windows open nonstop, febreze and air fresheners later, and it still reeks like he's standing in the corridor. My new housemates are complaining – the smell hits you the second you open the front door. It's possibly stuck to the entire carpet on the stairs because when I give them a sniff it's concentrated there.
I bought sprinkled 6kg of baking soda on the carpet, left it for a few hours then vacuumed it up. It was tricky to apply it to the vertical parts but with a damp cloth I got it to stick a bit. But the house STILL PONGS!!!
The landlord is coming in a few days to take a look. Let's hope he doesn't blame me and evict me for this guy ruining his house. The landlord is sceptical that a guy's body odour can stick to a carpet like that but maybe he'll understand when he sees it.
WTF do I do?!??!?! I'm traumatised