The flush valve on my Thedford Aria Deluxe failed a couple of years ago and I replaced it myself. Lately I have been getting odor in the bath, especially when a ceiling vent in ANOTHER PART of the RV is on. I emailed the company and explained how I had re-installed the toilet with new seal.They said that if the toilet is holding water then the odor was likely coming from the roof vent. Well, that does not make sense because I get the odor even when the ceiling vent in the bath is CLOSED. The odor HAS to be coming from the toilet, and no it is not the autovent on the grey tank - checked that.Just curious if anyone else has worked on their similar toilet and had any such problems and how you solved it.

All the drain traps in the camper have water in them, like the sinks and shower?Jim

This rig is a 1.5 bath unit and this toilet is in he half bath. The odor is originating there and yes the lav there gets used quite a bit so always water in the trap, and as I said I have checked the autovent on that lav as well. The odor is not coming from the kitchen or the rear bath. I am confident it is this toilet.

There are vent things under the sinks. If they get old they may fail to keep odors out. We have had to replace ours as they were letting odor into the rv when any water was put down the sinks or shower. Replacements were cheap and they just screw in/out. There is some kind of baffle inside that opens and closes and if it fails to close you have odor. (Sorry, don't know technical name for it.) And the smell was as bad as a black tank or worse. It smelled like black was wasn't.

doxiemom11 wrote:There are vent things under the sinks. If they get old they may fail to keep odors out. We have had to replace ours as they were letting odor into the rv when any water was put down the sinks or shower. Replacements were cheap and they just screw in/out. There is some kind of baffle inside that opens and closes and if it fails to close you have odor. (Sorry, don't know technical name for it.) And the smell was as bad as a black tank or worse. It smelled like black was wasn't.Right - those are the autovents to which I have referred as not being the current problem.

If you have verified that the autovents aren't the problem and the toilet holds water, that doesn't leave much but the seal between the toilet and holding tank. JMO

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tkcas01
Explorer
Jun 13, 2013
doxiemom11 wrote:
There are vent things under the sinks. If they get old they may fail to keep odors out. We have had to replace ours as they were letting odor into the rv when any water was put down the sinks or shower. Replacements were cheap and they just screw in/out. There is some kind of baffle inside that opens and closes and if it fails to close you have odor. (Sorry, don't know technical name for it.) And the smell was as bad as a black tank or worse. It smelled like black was wasn't.

Right - those are the autovents to which I have referred as not being the current problem.
doxiemom11
Explorer II
Jun 13, 2013
There are vent things under the sinks. If they get old they may fail to keep odors out. We have had to replace ours as they were letting odor into the rv when any water was put down the sinks or shower. Replacements were cheap and they just screw in/out. There is some kind of baffle inside that opens and closes and if it fails to close you have odor. (Sorry, don't know technical name for it.) And the smell was as bad as a black tank or worse. It smelled like black was wasn't.
tkcas01
Explorer
Jun 13, 2013
This rig is a 1.5 bath unit and this toilet is in he half bath. The odor is originating there and yes the lav there gets used quite a bit so always water in the trap, and as I said I have checked the autovent on that lav as well. The odor is not coming from the kitchen or the rear bath. I am confident it is this toilet.
HiTech
Explorer
Jun 13, 2013
All the drain traps in the camper have water in them, like the sinks and shower?

Jim

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