The Mysterious Stink

So Nick and I have been getting a whiff of funk every once in a while in  our house for the last couple weeks.  We thought maybe it was the cat litter so we were ultra cleaning it.  We thought maybe it was the hall bathroom.  Kept cleaning it.  Maybe the trash.  Kept taking it out.  Maybe a cat pooped somewhere hidden.  Looked everywhere.  We'd spray Febreze and the smell would disapate.  Well the last 2 days I could smell it almost constantly and I usually can't smell much of anything.  So I knew it must be bad.  Nick's super nose totally agreed.  SO we changed the litter, took out the trash and I scrubbed down the toilet in Mama's bathroom.  Still stunk. We are at a loss.  Well at 11:45 last night I went on one last kitty poop hunt. I opened the closet in Mama's den. Phew!!!  That's where it was coming from.  So I woke Ma up and had her help me empty the closet.  We sniffed everything but it all smelled fine.  So I sniffed the carpet, maybe someone peed in there.  Carpet smelled like...carpet.  Then I sniffed the wall.  UGH!  So I went to get Nick who had just had a nice relaxing evening in the hottub and was now in bed.  He wasn't happy but he knew I was making a stink about the stink it had to be bad.  So he narrowed the stench down to the bottom of the closet wall.  So all 3 of us are in the den and Nick decided the drywall had to come out to see if we could find the cause of the stink.  Now her den closet wall has her bathroom behind it.  So he thought maybe the vent stack.  So he cut there first, nothing there.  So then moved over on the wall to the toilet, smell worse but still nothing, then over to the tub.......OH MAN!!!!!!!!!  So by now the smell is overwhelming.  Sure enough there it is, there's a little plastic lined pit where the plumbing for the tub is and apparantly the tub has been leaking.  There was sawdust  in the cavity probably from when the house was built and tub installed.  It was soaked and rotten, there were tons of dead bugs in it and probably goo from my recent oatmeal bath.  A few inches deep and DISGUSTING!!
So Nick goes out to get the shopvac.  Its not there.  So I called Holly at her trailer and woke her up.  (By now its 1 am)  She says its over at the house they're liquidating.  So I called and woke up Paul and Mike who are staying at that house for the sale this AM.  Paul said it was there and that he'd open the garage and wait for me.  So I run over...thank goodness its so close...and bring it back.
Well when we started vaccing its shot the smell into the air and of course revealed the bottom of the pit and even MORE smell.  By now the entire HOUSE STINKS!  We had all the windows open and fans on.
So Nick and I were toting the glop out to the back lot and dumping it.  Nick said it felt like we were sneaking out to dump a dead body... I said that's what it smelled like.  So he cleaned and cleaned and cleaned.  We threw a whole gambit of stuff at it to make it smell better, finally ending in bleach water.  We left the window open and the fan on in there.  This morning....MUCH better.  Phew!
So by the time we were done it was 4 am.
The END!