It's back....and I'm stumped
Last week I replaced the closet flange seal on my Thetford toilet because I was getting odor in the bathroom when driving or when my fantastic fan was on. At the time it seemed to have worked, but I ...
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dieharder wrote:
When the fan is on, or if you're driving down the road with the roof vent open, you're creating a low pressure zone in your bathroom. It could be pulling air up from the tank through a leaky seal between the toilet and the tank and have nothing to do with the flush/flapper seal at all.
If you have your fantastic fan or the bathroom fan on and you flush the toilet it will draw odor up thru the open vslve in the toilet bowl, leaky seal or not. There's nothing you can do about that but shut off the fans when you flush. And really, closing the toilet lid under those circumstances isn't a bad idea. Putting a Tee or the venturi type that swivels will definitely help will going down the road or anytime its windy. But if I have my fantastic fan on in the bedroom and the bedroom window open and the toilet is flushed it will draw the odor in thru the window.
