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Posted by House Maven on November 27, 2006, 5:18 pm
I am a professional handyman with the need for some advice.
A female customer says she smells sewer gas when she flushes the toilet
in a small powder room.
I don't smell it.
The toilet is an full volume Kohler.
I changed the flapper because it was not working right. Works perfectly
now, but she says the smell is still there.
I don't think it is the wax seal because the toilet is rock solid with
no water leaks. Also, wouldn't you smell it at other times if the seal
was leaking?
Ideas??
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Posted by robson on November 27, 2006, 5:29 pm
House Maven wrote:
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> I am a professional handyman with the need for some advice.
> A female customer says she smells sewer gas when she flushes the toilet
> in a small powder room.
> I don't smell it.
> The toilet is an full volume Kohler.
> I changed the flapper because it was not working right. Works perfectly
> now, but she says the smell is still there.
> I don't think it is the wax seal because the toilet is rock solid with
> no water leaks. Also, wouldn't you smell it at other times if the seal
> was leaking?
> Ideas??
She may have a partial blockage and when you discharge the toilet the
liquid hits the clog and bounces back sending a bubble of air ahead
that belches out of a fixture trap. So it could be coming from the sink
(mistaken for the toilet). We had a problem similar and it was coming
from the shower drain when the toilet was flushed. Snake out the toilet
and get rid of the clog.
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Posted by Goedjn on November 27, 2006, 6:12 pm
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>I am a professional handyman with the need for some advice.
>A female customer says she smells sewer gas when she flushes the toilet
>in a small powder room.
>I don't smell it.
>The toilet is an full volume Kohler.
>I changed the flapper because it was not working right. Works perfectly
>now, but she says the smell is still there.
>I don't think it is the wax seal because the toilet is rock solid with
>no water leaks. Also, wouldn't you smell it at other times if the seal
>was leaking?
>Ideas??
Pour peppermint oil into the DWV stack, cap it, and see if
that smell shows up in the bathroom either before or
after flushing. If it doesn't then I'd guess she's
mis-identifying some other smell as "sewer".
Is it only the toilet, or does the sink smell too?
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Posted by gotcode on December 1, 2006, 2:32 pm
My downstairs bathroom does this. It ended up being because I would
use the toilet down there, but never the sink or shower. Running the
shower for 10 minutes every month "solves" the problem.
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Posted by nospambob on December 2, 2006, 5:14 am
Pour a little oil in the drain/trap that ends up floating on the water
and doesn't evaporate as fast as water.
On 1 Dec 2006 11:32:04 -0800, gotcode@gmail.com wrote:
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>My downstairs bathroom does this. It ended up being because I would
>use the toilet down there, but never the sink or shower. Running the
>shower for 10 minutes every month "solves" the problem.
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> A female customer says she smells sewer gas when she flushes the toilet
> in a small powder room.
> I don't smell it.
> The toilet is an full volume Kohler.
> I changed the flapper because it was not working right. Works perfectly
> now, but she says the smell is still there.
> I don't think it is the wax seal because the toilet is rock solid with
> no water leaks. Also, wouldn't you smell it at other times if the seal
> was leaking?
> Ideas??