Odor Coming From Toilet

hvac1000 · Dec 23, 2008, 04:03 PM

The wax gasket under the toilet might be defective allowing sewer gasses into the bath room.

letmetellu · Dec 23, 2008, 06:27 PM

Do you have a son, and if so how old also do you have a husband of a male living in the house. Men miss a lot, a good way to improve their aim is to let them clean the commode and floor.

mygirlsdad77 · Dec 23, 2008, 07:10 PM

Letmetellu nailed it. The yellow around the toilet is due to someone's bad aim. The smell is most likely going to remain because the urine has gotten under the toilet. If it were a bad wax ring you would be smelling sewer gas, not urine. Young boys, and older gentlemen are usually the cause of this. However, any age male could be the factor, or a really drunk woman(have to be drunk for a woman to miss that bad,lol). May look at pulling toilet, cleaning area very well, replace wax ring, and start making the males in the family clean up their mess.

mygirlsdad77 · Dec 23, 2008, 07:14 PM

Hvac, Good to see you are taking some interest in the plumbing page, Maybe I can help you learn for once,lol.

hvac1000 · Dec 23, 2008, 07:27 PM

That is a good possibility. I think they also need to caulk around the base between the base of the toilet and the floor to seal that area so if urine gets there again it cannot get under the toilet where it cannot be cleaned. My father did some plumbing and he taught me a lot of old ways especially what he called piss plates. Every toilet in this house has one. Some are stainless and some are marble but that and the caulk always kept the bathrooms here from having that problem.

Now doing the lead pipe joints is another story. LOL I still have his torch, ladel,wooden oil paddles,catchers,okum and all the other junk in a big box. The torch pump still works and burns using white gas/Coleman fluid.

mygirlsdad77 · Dec 23, 2008, 07:36 PM

Some folks like to caulk toilets, some don't. I'm the latter, unless it is necessary to stabilize the commode. The only problem I have with caulking the toilet, is it makes for a heck of a mess when replacing wax ring, or installing a new toilet that doesn't match old toilets dimensions.

Im glad I'm young enough to have missed out on the lead and okum days. Only have to use it rarely for repair work. That stuff was used back in the day when you didn't mess with a plumber, cause if you did, you were going to get hurt.

hvac1000 · Dec 23, 2008, 08:41 PM

I kind of like the caulk. I use Dap the Jap as I call it in the small tube. It helps stabilize as you said but it also prevents and PP from getting between the base plate P-plate and the base itself. Last unit I serviced here a friend of mine invented a new style wax ring. Actually it is not wax at all but a plactic adapter with large O rings and a durable rubber style flap around the area that the base ring fits into. I believe they are sold now by some companys. It has worked well. He sold the patent some time ago and collects residuals plus some up front cash. Many small inventors cannot bring there product to the market due to start up costs.

Milo Dolezal · Dec 23, 2008, 09:12 PM

Agree with Letmetellya: Do you have small boy in your family who is using this toilet ? What type / kind of flooring do you have in that bathroom ?

Pivoman · Dec 23, 2008, 11:09 PM

Caulk is not needed, if the installation was done properly. If you want to seal the toilet. Put a bead of plumbers putty under the perimeter of the toilet.......It works wonders.

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