1. Have you ever used bamboo charcoal bags to eliminate an odor? Do they work?

2. It says to activate them in the sun for 2 hours. Can that be inside with light coming through a glass window or does it have to be sun outside? (It is winter, I live in an apartment.)

Thanks. Scoop is below if you have any other suggestions.

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We live in a prewar apartment building. We've spent three weeks sleeping, working, and eating in our primary bedroom because it is the only place in our apartment that has not smelled.

A pipe burst upstairs 3 weeks ago and leaked into a wall cavity next to a closet. Severely damaged the closet wall. Our super ripped out the drywall and has the cavity open now to remove moistuer. The wall cavity contains pipes that go into our kitchen sink. There is a gap between the back of the cavity and the back of our cabinets. This gap area concerns me.

The smell was horrific both in the room with the closet and in our kitchen, under the sink. Room with closet, closet, cavity, and under kitche sink smelled horrific. Cavity now just smell a bit like a slightly musty basement. Kitchen still smells like hell if we close the windows. Here is what we've done:

- Placed a dehumidifier in closet next to the wall cavity. Pulled lots of moisture first few days but now hardly any. Put it next to kitchen sink cabinet and pulled nothing.

- Had mold company test - tests were negative. More mold in kitchen than in cavity but both were well below the threshold. Moisture meter detected no moisture on kitchen cabinet, kitchen walls, closet walls.

- Have had windows open for three weeks, fans in the windows. It is winter in NYC and getting too cold. When we close the windows sometimes it is okay and other times the kitchen smell comes back full force.

- Odor wafted into the living room for a week and ran our hospital grade air purifier in there.

- Have a container of Damprid under sink and container in cavity.