Dead animal smell coming from Haier portable AC

[wendy.d9412]

Hi

I have a portable AC in the room and i live in the basement . The other day I think I heard something crawl through the hose tube thing that connects to the AC to the window. As I'm sure you know that for portable AC a long hose is required to be connected to the AC unit on one end and the other end is connect to opening on the window to exhaust the hot air . The other day I think I heard something crawling in the hosing , all of a sudden the fan starts making a weird noise like it hit something but then it passed. A day later I had been using my AC and nothing smelled until I turned it off overnight and turned it back on a few hours later and a horrible smell started filling the room . I'm pretty sure it's a dead animal because when I put a flashlight through the opening that the hose would be connected to on the AC , I see a fan and it has like something all over it . Like a mush or crud
I'm assuming a rodent or something crawled through the tubing straight into the fan ? Is there a way to clean this !? Should i attempt to try to open it myself or do you think it is a risk and i might mess it up or should i pay someone to clean it !? and if i do what kind of service would do this kind of job?
Help please ! And thank you

 

[Jodell88]

You have a (dead) mouse in there. :awe:

 

[ISAslot]

so you're saying a mouse popped into your air conditioner?

 

[wendy.d9412]

so you're saying a mouse popped into your air conditioner?

Well it did not just pop in there. Since i live in the basement, the window i use to exhaust the hot air is very low on the ground so it is extremely easy for a rodent of some sort to just crawl in there.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Disconnect the hose at the back of the unit and see if you can find the corpse. Probably want to wear gloves and a mask for that part. And you might consider cutting a small piece of chicken wire to put over the exhaust outside so something similar doesn't happen again.

 

[Thump553]

Chicken wire won't stop mice-it's amazing how small a space they can crawl through. Use metal window screening.

 

[futurefields]

Disconnect the hose at the back of the unit and see if you can find the corpse.

It sounds like the corpse is now a viscous brown fan-blade coating.

Might be time for a new AC unit?

Put a fine mesh grille over the hole next time so things can't crawl in.

 

[edro]

You have no idea what can of worms you just opened.

 

[dank69]

We need pics of the AC unit. With you standing next to it. For scale, obviously.

 

[zinfamous]