Smelly bathroom plumbing

[charlesey]

I need instruction. There is an unclear unpleasant odor creating in our bathroom. There are no leaking pipes, the sink and bathtub are used all day, so no water stands in the P-traps. Commode flushes usually. And yet there is this pale odor of manure! It’s a little bathroom, so I can’t even find where the smell creates. What could be the source?

 

[James Henry]

Dirty bath towels.

 

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[Reach4]

If you can cover fixtures with cheap thin plastic drop cloths, after a time sniff under each to see where the smell is strongest. Similarly, you can partition the room with the plastic to separate section if you cannot localize the smell to a fixture.

If the smell is the sink, try putting chlorine bleach solution into the overflow holes.

 

[Sylvan]

Buy some oil of peppermint mix it with hot water - pour it down a vent line above this bathroom and the person handling the oil of peppermint stays out of the house

Then have someone sniff around and this normally will let you know if a vent line is broken

 

[HolmesStephanie]

I need instruction. There is an unclear unpleasant odor creating in our bathroom. There are no leaking pipes, the sink and bathtub are used all day, so no water stands in the P-traps. Commode flushes usually. And yet there is this pale odor of manure! It’s a little bathroom, so I can’t even find where the smell creates. What could be the source?

If an odor is coming from your drain or bathroom water, it might be because of sulfur. To be specific, hydrogen sulfide gas creates an unpleasant smell. It is produced because of bacteria and can be in places such as the ground, the sewage, and/or contaminated water and pipes.