Gonrod
Dec 8, 2007, 04:20 AM
Hi,
We've been re-doing our upstairs bathroom, and therefore have been using the bath rather than the shower while we re-tile.
We've noticed an increasingly strong smell in our utility room downstairs, emanating directly after we empty the bath, and dissipating after a couple of hours. The utility room is an addition to a 1953 house, basically a room linking the house with what was an outside toilet. While there is a toilet in the room downstairs, the smell doesn’t seem to be emitting from it.
The bath is draining into a drain on the back wall of the house. It’s not clear where the toilet in the utility room drains to – the soil pipe goes straight down into the floor. The upstairs toilet goes into a soil pipe that goes down the external wall of the house. There is no adverse smell in the upstairs bathroom, even when we didn’t have the toilet connected.
Could anyone suggest where we start with identifying the source of the smell? The fact that it’s in a completely different part of the house is stumping me! All help appreciated.
Cheers, G
We've been re-doing our upstairs bathroom, and therefore have been using the bath rather than the shower while we re-tile.
We've noticed an increasingly strong smell in our utility room downstairs, emanating directly after we empty the bath, and dissipating after a couple of hours. The utility room is an addition to a 1953 house, basically a room linking the house with what was an outside toilet. While there is a toilet in the room downstairs, the smell doesn’t seem to be emitting from it.
The bath is draining into a drain on the back wall of the house. It’s not clear where the toilet in the utility room drains to – the soil pipe goes straight down into the floor. The upstairs toilet goes into a soil pipe that goes down the external wall of the house. There is no adverse smell in the upstairs bathroom, even when we didn’t have the toilet connected.
Could anyone suggest where we start with identifying the source of the smell? The fact that it’s in a completely different part of the house is stumping me! All help appreciated.
Cheers, G