How to Get the Stink Out of Bathroom

coolmom42 wrote:

TechWriter wrote:

Pineapple Kid wrote:

I spent a month trying to get rid of a nasty toilet smell . . . I attacked the problem full on . . .

• first thing I did was to climb up on the roof and remove the vent roof seal plastic cap thing and when I did the 1 1/2" abs vent pipe shot up in the air about 2".
  
• Not wanting to drop the Black tank I cut a 8" 10" hole in the paneling behind the toilet at floor level to take a look and sure enough the vent pipe was out of the tank and just sitting on the 2X2 floor joist. The vent pipe had been improperly installed at a cockeyed angle so it could not be fully insert into the collar anyway ( guess the skilled Amish at Jayco put the roof hole about 4" over to far for proper alignment ?)
  
• I heated the pipe a bit with a heat gun and bent it enough to fit down snug into the collar
  
• then filled the wall void around the pipe with a can of spray foam to keep it in place
  
• then Gorilla glued the cut out wall section back in place.
  

Oy veh!

While it's a good thing that you ended up fixing your defective Jayco, I can't imagine putting this much effort into curing the stink.

Long before cutting an 8' x 10' hole in my RV's wall, I would have just nuked the black tank with bleach.

Which would only fix the problem until the next time someone used the toilet.