What could be causing this ammonia smell?

What could be causing this ammonia smell?
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Do you have old wallpaper and/or the old type of plaster? Like the kind over lath (sp?) board? I think it’s called horsehair plaster. We lived in an old house that we ripped all the walls down from and put in drywall and peeeyoooo did it stink in the summer!
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