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Smell in a toilet that's go me confused.
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<blockquote data-quote="Midnight plough boy" data-source="post: 3248400" data-attributes="member: 12071"><p>Apologies for the longish post.</p><p></p><p>Ok, I have a cottage on the farm with a downstairs loo right by the back door. The tenants contacted me complaining about a smell. There is a smell there, nasty, but not what you'd expect coming back up the drains from a klargester. It's as acrid but not the same as the smell in the manhole to the klargester just outside.</p><p></p><p>The smell comes and goes, and apparently is worst in the early hours of the morning.</p><p></p><p>All there is in the room is a basin with a u bend underneath, then the waste is piped into a drain outside, but the waste stops over the drain and there's an air gap so no real way a smell can come back that way.</p><p></p><p>The only other thing in the room is the toilet, one of the older style porcelain ones where the waste exits vertically into the floor. About an inch above floor level the toilet waste fits inside the terracotta type main drain which is sealed with cement. I thought it was the cement perishing and letting the smell up through here, but I've now totally sealed this with silicone and no difference. Toilet cistern is clean. Oldish carpet is bone dry. No sign of leaks anywhere.</p><p></p><p>Anyone have any ideas? I'm stumped.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Midnight plough boy, post: 3248400, member: 12071"] Apologies for the longish post. Ok, I have a cottage on the farm with a downstairs loo right by the back door. The tenants contacted me complaining about a smell. There is a smell there, nasty, but not what you'd expect coming back up the drains from a klargester. It's as acrid but not the same as the smell in the manhole to the klargester just outside. The smell comes and goes, and apparently is worst in the early hours of the morning. All there is in the room is a basin with a u bend underneath, then the waste is piped into a drain outside, but the waste stops over the drain and there's an air gap so no real way a smell can come back that way. The only other thing in the room is the toilet, one of the older style porcelain ones where the waste exits vertically into the floor. About an inch above floor level the toilet waste fits inside the terracotta type main drain which is sealed with cement. I thought it was the cement perishing and letting the smell up through here, but I've now totally sealed this with silicone and no difference. Toilet cistern is clean. Oldish carpet is bone dry. No sign of leaks anywhere. Anyone have any ideas? I'm stumped. [/QUOTE]
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