Help ... Get rid of bad toilet smell!?

Question

We have toilet for guest in hotel and mens toilet smels for a mile! We tried everything, washing of course, pipe draining products, bleach, salt, baking powder, matches, coffee, everything we could find in internet! Help! Air freshner and candles do not cover that.

Ok folks, more details to make it easier: tiles on tha floor and walls aswell, no way to take them out :)
i tried advices, washed everything again and again. I want to mention that the toiles is SPOTLESsss... its not old or neglected. It was drained bleached many times, vinegared also. It helped for few hours only! We thinks it comes from urinals. How about that?

Answer 1

Get the whole bog gutted and start again. Wallpaper/paint. Look under the floor tiles, and Dettol Dettol Dettol it big style!

Answer 2

Sounds like a dumb question...by toilet do you mean the whole bathroom? or the whole toilet fixture? or in the toilet bowl. Different places use different phrases.

First off, the no-brainer answer. If there is carpet, I can 100% guarantee you that the odor is either inside the rug, or in the padding underneath.

Start with the bowl. Drain the water from the toilet, and use straight vinegar to clean up the bowl. If there is rust or ring around the usual water level, or other deposits, get those too because the odor causing germs stick better to those. Vinegar removes these as well, but if you have trouble, use a pumice stone such as you would use for calluses on your feet, and gently scrape the limescale off the toilet bowl.

Then get the tank, take off the back cover of the toilet and clean the inside surface. This would help if there was a backwash or sorts flushing icky water back into the tank and also would indicates a problem, because this water is supposed to be clean.

Then get all around the toilet. Men can't aim!! Make sure you get every nook and cranny. Outlines of pipes, under the seat, near the screws where the seat is attached, by the faucet where you shut off the water supply, up underneath where you can't reach...everything in or near the toilet fixture.

Check for gaps in the hole where the toilet was seated, gaps in the flooring by the wall behind the toilet, any slices or nicks in the flooring, or the grout, and holes or stains on the wall where there might be a stinky mess.

After that you may need to tear up the floor and see what's going on underneath. If there are wetness stains in the wood subfloor...there is your answer.

Throughout the bathroom, pay special attention to porous surfaces that would hold smells: wood, many types of tile, especially unglazed (matte finish), grout, fabric, rubber, and some sealants and caulk. About the only thing in a bathroom that doesn't hold in smells over time, is chrome and porcelain and glass/mirrors.

You don't need harsh or weird chemicals to get rid of a bathroom odor. You can get it neutralized with baking soda, OR vinegar OR ammonia. Ammonia might sound weird since the urine smell is just like ammonia. Well, that's true, and long story short is that this is why it works so well. Like removes like...just like if you have an oil stain, you need an oil based stain remover.

Hope this helps!

Answer 3

Try using this one proven household staple in your food cupboard, White Vinegar, just pour in one cup of White Vinegar, scrub the toilet with the brush, let stand for a few hours then flush twice, you can even pour a half cup of vinegar inside the tank and leave for about an hour and half then flush again twice, this should rid the toilet smell, also don't forget to scrub under the rim of the toilets real well as bacteria can form under them and cause odor if not cleaned and removed and disinfected. Good Luck !

Answer 4

erm my i used to work in a nite club where they used to hav this problem try scrubbin out with disinfectant or toilet cleaner with a toilet brush then put these cinstern block cubes where u can get frm any cash and carry or places like that. place at the bottom of the urinal and every time the urinal flushes or someone uses the urinal the cubes let out a smell of pine or lemon witch ever scented ones uv bought these last 4 weeks . i hope this helped x

Answer 5

Yes Bathrooms can be easily invaded by foul odors from urine and feces. They are also an ideal breeding ground for bacteria, mold, mildew, and fungus that also generate odor. Unfortunately, most ventilation systems only recirculate room air and remove large particulate matter such as dirt, dust, Covering up nasty bathroom odors with perfumed deodorizers often times only result in even more offensive smells.
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Good luck!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 6

It'll be under your flooring....soaked into the floorboards. When we bought our house from an elderly man we had the same problem....we took up the floor boards around the loo and replaced the suite , we then put flooring down and the problem has gone.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

The smell could be coming from Dry Urine on the floor

Answer 9

I could suggest you go to the department of health, it could be a dead animal or rat in the drainage pipes.

Answer 10

Did you hear about the curtain rods? I will look it up and post it, or someone who remembers it could probably post it here now. It is very interesting. Probably could explain the smell.