We've got a strange smell in the bathroom of our new-to-us 2000-year truck camper; I've searched the archives and can't find anyone complaining of quite what we've got, perhaps someone's got some ideas....First of all, it's a smell that builds up in ...
"Plastic" might not be quite right, either. Sour plastic. Clearly I'll never make a living selling wine. So my wife just took her super nose out there, might be a red herring but she thinks it's strongest right at the flush handles. I mean, I had my...
Old-Biscuit wrote:GMandJM wrote:But after 15 years it still smells that strongly?Could be the fact that it is 15 yrs old that it SMELLS.Plastic breaking down from age.Time for new top coat spray sealant :HThat might be. Or pull the whole thing out, I...
GMandJM wrote:Wow - I really thought the problem was fixed. No way of narrowing down where it might be coming from such as up top (ceiling area) or down low (floor area)?Is the toilet holding water? Sometimes a new seal smells like a new tire. Anyway...
Sort of an update: I pulled the toilet and fitted a new floor gasket, just in case that was what was going wrong. And I got to learn a lot about the toilet and how it works, which is never a bad thing -- took it apart, cleaned it, and put it back tog...
westend wrote:Do you have air admittance valve on the sink drain plumbing? They are known to fail and will admit odor inside.Nope, looks like just a drain into a trap into the tank. There's an air admittance valve in another cabinet under the kitchen...
