stevenpensacola
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Thought my experience with battling a smell from a Universal-Rundle toilet I have might be of interest to ya'll.
I'm sure that this toilet was just a contractor grade cheapie put in when the house was new, as it matches our other two toilets. Toilet is prone to clogging. Several days after clearing a clog, we began to notice a foul odor from the toilet. Cleaned and cleaned the bowl to no avail.
I then got a mirror and looked up under/inside the rim...this area was very cruddy. I then compared the water flow in the bowl to the flow in our other non-stinking toilet. The stinking toilet flow would not completely rinse the bowl...in fact it would leave the front of the bowl dry. As a result, any material deposited under the rim during a clog would not get rinsed from there, causing bad odors.
I read somewhere that muriatic acid can be used to clean the water path inside the toilet, so I used plumbers putty to seal off the entire rim, then poured acid (very carefully, while wearing PPE) into the rim via the tank.
I let this sit for awhile....this did take care of the problem....for a little while...but I'm back where I started with a stinky toilet.
This toilet does not have holes under the rim from which the rinse water flows, all the water comes from the rear of the rim...apparently "stuff" builds up under the rim and disrupts the water flow.
In the very near future, this toilet will be replaced by either a Drake, or a AS Cadet 3. Closest Toto dealer to where I live is 60 miles.
It's amazing how you can take a clog free/odor free toilet for granted.
Anyone else have trouble with their U-R brand toilets?
I'm sure that this toilet was just a contractor grade cheapie put in when the house was new, as it matches our other two toilets. Toilet is prone to clogging. Several days after clearing a clog, we began to notice a foul odor from the toilet. Cleaned and cleaned the bowl to no avail.
I then got a mirror and looked up under/inside the rim...this area was very cruddy. I then compared the water flow in the bowl to the flow in our other non-stinking toilet. The stinking toilet flow would not completely rinse the bowl...in fact it would leave the front of the bowl dry. As a result, any material deposited under the rim during a clog would not get rinsed from there, causing bad odors.
I read somewhere that muriatic acid can be used to clean the water path inside the toilet, so I used plumbers putty to seal off the entire rim, then poured acid (very carefully, while wearing PPE) into the rim via the tank.
I let this sit for awhile....this did take care of the problem....for a little while...but I'm back where I started with a stinky toilet.
This toilet does not have holes under the rim from which the rinse water flows, all the water comes from the rear of the rim...apparently "stuff" builds up under the rim and disrupts the water flow.
In the very near future, this toilet will be replaced by either a Drake, or a AS Cadet 3. Closest Toto dealer to where I live is 60 miles.
It's amazing how you can take a clog free/odor free toilet for granted.
Anyone else have trouble with their U-R brand toilets?