Hi,
I am having this issue with a stinky toilet... I clean my house every Saturday and this includes my bathroom/toilet. I usually clean with bleach. This 'stinky' problem started about 2 months ago and no matter what I do, I cannot seem to find the 'stinky' problem... do you have any suggestions? I just re-did my bathroom last year, could there be a problem leftover from that? Thank you, I appreciate your attention...
Sheryl D.

Can you be more specific about the "stink". Is it a smell of sewer ? Does it smell continuously or only certain days, or time of the day ?

Hi Milo,
Thank you for responding so quickly... And to be more specific; it seems that the smell is constant throughout day & night. It also seems that the smell is coming directly from the bowl itself. I just got under the rim with a mirror to see if any of the holes were plugged and it is not the case. I also just emptied the tank & poured some bleach and then flushed. The smell is still there! It smells 'crappy' (could it be stagnant water)? And to remind you, I just had my entire bathroom redone about 1 1/2 years ago, could they have done something wrong with the toilet?
Thank you,
Sheryl

Toilet seats on Wax Ring. Wax Ring is installed between Toilet Ring ( the hole in your floor ) and toilet bowl. Its function is to create positive seal between rough plumbing and toilet. If that ring is missing, or is not thick enough to create positive seal, than sewer gases will escape thorough there and will enter your room through base of your toilet.

To replace wax ring, you have to lift your toilet. We sometimes have to use 2 rings to make positive seal. That is especially true after remodeling, when new tile floor was installed. New tile will creates larger gap between toilet ring and toilet. To compensate for that difference, we use second wax ring. Then, when you are setting the bowl you have to feel that bowl first touches the wax rings. You have to push on bowl a bit to squeeze wax rings. Then, bowl will touch finish floor.

Also, by our Plumbing Code, all toilets have to be caulked along side of the base of toilet to prevent accidental sewer gases to enter the room.

Hi Milo,
Thanks again... however, I am smelling the 'stink' up under the rim of the toilet or in the toilet bowl itself... can the sewer smell escape through the holes in the rim? In the bowl itself?
Sheryl

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Originally Posted by sheryl64

Hi Milo,
Thanks again...however, I am smelling the 'stink' up under the rim of the toliet or in the toilet bowl itself...can the sewer smell escape through the holes in the rim? in the bowl itself?
Sheryl

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Hey Sheryl,
It sounds more like a bacterial infestation than a faulty wax ring to me. OK, let's try this. Purchase a coulple of gallons of bleach. Tonight, before bedtime, shut the water off to the toilet and flush it. Now dip and sponge all the water you can out of the tank and bowl. Pour the bleach in the tank and scrub down the walls. Now flush the bleach down into the bowl and let it set over night. Next morning turn the water back on and flush the bleach away. The bleach will have flushed through the tank, rim holes, the bowl and the trap. Do things smell better now? Let us know. Tom