Water Smells

Are your traps running dry? When you run water in your sink and shower, does the smell go away or does it persist?

If the property is in regular use and the traps are drying out, then the likely cause is siphoning, usually when a toilet is flushed. Fitting anti-siphon traps would be a solution.

 

Yep, could be a host of things.

 

hi Hannibelle. I’m having the same problem and the plumber is saying I just need to use the shower but it’s been 3 weeks and the smell keeps coming back every day and I’m using the bathroom (newly fitted) every day. did you get an answer?

Any response you have would be greatly appreciated as I feel like I’m being fobbed off by the bathroom fitters and it’s so upsetting as we spent all our savings getting the new bathroom.

 

Do you know if the shower has a trap fitted and is it of adequate size?

 

When my new shower was fitted it stank the whole bathroom out, the trap was drying out and letting the drain smell into the bathroom, the water in the trap keeps the smell from the drains getting out, my problem was the cup inside the trap not sitting right, this left the cover sitting too high creating a nice air way for the trap to dry out, pushed the cup in and cover down and no stink since, if you are lucky it could be that simple.