More in the ongoing toilet smell saga...
In another thread here I documented the beginning of our stinky woes. I had the trailer here for a few days and thoroughly cleaned the black tank and let it sit to see if it began to smell again. It d...
Forum Discussion
Well... That was a little adventure...
I popped the bolt covers, undid the nuts, removed the water supply pipe and moved the toilet. Only to have my foot covered in a foul smelling mixture of pee and water. Upon turning it upside down it appears that there was about half a gallon of this stuff inside the toilet...
It turns up that the Dometic toilets aren't just hollow but they have a large opening right behind the lump behind where the seat and lid attach. After cleaning and disinfecting it it was time to try to determine how half a gallon of pee and water got there. It's all a bit baffling until you turn the toilet upside down and look "up" the pipe. There's a seal that you can't see from above that holds the curved plate that the ball seals against.
My best guess is that it has a small leak and one of our family "courtesies" that has transferred from the home is the root of our problem. You see, in the night, if we get up to pee we don't flush so that we don't wake others up. It works fine at home with a good old porcelain bog but in the trailer if it's left to sit I think it's slowly leaking out of that seal into the body of the toilet. Then, to make things worse it seems that now it got quite full travel allowed some of it to splash out but by the time we opened up the next day for cleaning etc. it had dried up and was therefore un-noticable.
Lot's of scrubbing alternating vinegar and Pine Sol has gone a long way to fixing that so the toilet has been replaced and the bathroom closed up and left until tomorrow to see how good a job I did...
Hopefully it will be all spiffy and new again...
But I haven't put away the cleaning stuff yet... Pee can be a bugger to get rid of.
I popped the bolt covers, undid the nuts, removed the water supply pipe and moved the toilet. Only to have my foot covered in a foul smelling mixture of pee and water. Upon turning it upside down it appears that there was about half a gallon of this stuff inside the toilet...
It turns up that the Dometic toilets aren't just hollow but they have a large opening right behind the lump behind where the seat and lid attach. After cleaning and disinfecting it it was time to try to determine how half a gallon of pee and water got there. It's all a bit baffling until you turn the toilet upside down and look "up" the pipe. There's a seal that you can't see from above that holds the curved plate that the ball seals against.
My best guess is that it has a small leak and one of our family "courtesies" that has transferred from the home is the root of our problem. You see, in the night, if we get up to pee we don't flush so that we don't wake others up. It works fine at home with a good old porcelain bog but in the trailer if it's left to sit I think it's slowly leaking out of that seal into the body of the toilet. Then, to make things worse it seems that now it got quite full travel allowed some of it to splash out but by the time we opened up the next day for cleaning etc. it had dried up and was therefore un-noticable.
Lot's of scrubbing alternating vinegar and Pine Sol has gone a long way to fixing that so the toilet has been replaced and the bathroom closed up and left until tomorrow to see how good a job I did...
Hopefully it will be all spiffy and new again...
But I haven't put away the cleaning stuff yet... Pee can be a bugger to get rid of.
