Oddly, my bathroom has an intermittent stench. It comes and goes, and it’s pretty foul. I have tried candles, opening the window and keeping the little exhaust fan going. Apparently the stench is a pretty common occurrence here, as I have noticed it in bathrooms in other places. I think it’s coming from the drain in the floor. Sometimes it’s pretty powerful, other times it’s not even there. It’s a plumbing mystery. It’s only in the master bathroom. I hope this doesn’t interfere with Jacuzzi bath time, as that would be unpleasant. Stench and bathing should not go together. Mostly I just keep the bathroom door closed and hope for the best.
In other apartment news, I recently acquired a lovely green plant. It came in a heavy clay pot and it must weigh 30 to 40 pounds. I carried it 3 or 4 blocks home and had to keep stopping on the way to rest it on posts and trash bins as I’m not in Olympic gold medal plant lugging shape at the moment. It’s nice to have something else alive in my apartment that doesn’t require a lot of care, leave hair or bodily fluid on my furniture, eat my cereal, get upset if I leave for a vacation for a few weeks or disrupt my nap schedule. All important factors in determining what I allow to live in my house. I hope it will have a long and happy life.
You could try pouring water down the drain regularly. If there is a leak in the water trap (if there is a water trap) and it drys out, sewer gases can travel back up the pipe. This is the reason for that little loop of pipe you see under the sink.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the tip. Poured some water down there when I got home from work. Hopefully it will stop smelling like something yucky died down there really, really soon.
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