Always difficult to write about smells ... I wonder if we'll ever be able to "snap" a smell, like a picture, or audio ?#
This is in our cloakroom - one toilet and a washbasin.
Anyway, noticed smell a few weeks ago. It's not a "wet" damp smell. Nor is it a "foul" damp smell. It's not chokingly fetid, or retch-inducing, not is it a musty smell.
I immediately investigated, and discovered a tiny leak from the concealed cistern feed. I duly removed, replaced the fibre washer, reconnected and that's that. Bone dry.
The water had made a little pool on the concrete floor. It was a small patch about 4" in diameter. I duly lifted the vinlay, and left it all open with door and window open for a week, which seemed to clear it. Put it all together. However, since then, every so often, we catch a whiff of the same smell. It's maddening, as it comes and goes. I've double checked every part of the floor and can't seem to find it. The basin u-bend is OK. The floor is bone dry. The pan to soil-pipe connection is solid and intact (I changed it back in Feb for a combined waste and soil pipe).
Sometimes, you go into the room, no smell, and it hits you a few seconds later.
Nothing obvious outside the window.
It's only this room ... nowhere else in the house.
Can anyone suggest anything ? Please. We have scrubbed the walls and floor with bleach. All we could smell for a few days was bleach, and then the smell crept back. Same for spirit vinegar.