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    May 17, 2012, 03:33 PM
    Smell under bathroom sink..
    Have had a bad odor for a few days under bathroom sink. Drain is clean and water runs smoothly. Today I disconnected the pipe under the sink and the smell seems to have disappeared. What would cause this?
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    May 18, 2012, 09:25 PM
    It could be number of things ranging from spilled water to toiletry stored under the sink. Hard to speculate now when odor is gone. Milo
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    May 19, 2012, 12:45 AM
    If it smelled like sewer, it could have been that the p trap wasn't functioning correctly. I'm not a plumber, and I wasn't there ofc, but I know that sometimes if it doesn't hold water like it should it might smell badly.
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