Odd smell in bathroom ...

Jethro · 2011-09-28T16:28:26+00:00

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.

Sep 28, 2011 32 Replies

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Tim Streater 14 years ago

It does what?

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ARWadsworth 14 years ago

Only in customers houses. At home I piss in the bath.

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Mr Pounder 14 years ago

Stinks.

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Mr Pounder 14 years ago

I once had a piss in a lift.

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Tim Streater 14 years ago

Really? Could you elaborate a little?

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Mr Pounder 14 years ago

I could elaborate a lot. If I did you would get all upset. Don't tempt me. Just accept that I detest everything about the great shithole of the south of England, it's cardboard box houses, filthy water, the most ignorant, stupidest and filthy people I have ever met. Can we still be friends Tim? Gosh, I really hope that I have not upset you.

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Tim Streater 14 years ago

Gosh, not prejudiced are you?

Personally I don't find any significant variations across the country, certainly any such will be dwarfed by the variations *within* an area.

I think you need to get out more.

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News 14 years ago

In message , Mr Pounder writes

And you claim Southerners are 'the most ignorant, stupidest and filthy people I have ever met' ...

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PeterC 14 years ago

Makes the coal hiss when put on the fire, does it?

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Mr Pounder 14 years ago

Bitter experience.

I find huge variations.

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Tim Streater 14 years ago

Well you prolly would if all you do is look for the negative in people. You should get out more.

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Mr Pounder 14 years ago

Are you a bible thumper?

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Mr Pounder 14 years ago

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