Smell from Bathroom Sink

keystone

DieHard wrote: »

Keystone thanks for all your help and advice but I am not interested in being insulted so you can forget it. Also, thank you for being polite in your replies.

OK lets drop it but in his defence (and I'm not making excuses) it can be excruciatingly frustrating when you spend time on here giving advice and genuinely trying to help peeps and they seem to ignore you. Granted that sometimes its difficult to be able to separate the wheat from the chaff - some peeps post "advice" which is painfully inaccurate and woefully inadequate.

There was a guy on here not do long ago who had a problem and was asking if a solution proposed by him would work. Despite being told by several people that he should not do it (as its downright dangerous) he was still going on about implementing it and on that occasion it was me that gave him a bit of a slap but still offered help. A huff drew up and he went off in it only to come back two months later and say "I've found this as a solution". Which is all well and good but it took two months longer than it needed to just because he wasn't prepared to listen or to be on the receiving end of answers he didn't want to hear. Sometimes we all have to let off steam a bit

In your case LDs original thoughts very much mirror my own albeit expressed several posts later. Don't forget that I cannot see, smell, touch your problem, I can only go on what you write. So if sometimes questions may seem a bit daft they aren't really being born of a certain amount of experience.

Anyway - take a chill pill, relax and when you have release the waste from the basin (pleease not sink) give it a good clean up, smear of LSX or similar on the washer underneath the basin, realign and tighten it up again, fit your new trap and it should be OK ubless you do have probs associated with Post 6 of course.

Cheers

DieHard

To me his reply was uncalled for since I didn't insult him. It appeared to me like he was insulting me because he was offended by me ignoring his reply.

I didn't ignore his reply on purpose. I saw the reply about trying an anti vac trap and decided to try that and so far it has worked in that there is no smell (although I don't know if it will work in the long run).

The only problem is that because I was working blind (so to speak) it appears as if I have broken the seal when I was taking off the old trap and putting on the new trap. I didn't touch the nut that connects the pipe up to the plughole so I assume it just loosened when I was taking off the old trap on putting on the new one. I have used my mobile to look at it and it seems like it has some yellow stuff smeared around it (Plumber's mate or is it LSX).

It was leaking a bit at first but tightening the nut seems to have stopped the leak to a slight weeping but obviously the water is draining from the sink even when the plug is in. It seems like the majority of the water is still going down the the pipe.

To be honest my main concern was the smell and if that goes away I will be well chuffed.

ListysDad

You see DH there in lies the rub.

By ignoring people with genuine experience and doing that which they tell you explicitly is ineffective you effectively 'insult' their intelligence and undermine their efforts at helping you.

This is rare for me so frame it. I apologise for jumping at you.

That said, it is incumbent upon you as the original poster to sort the wheat from the 'well meaning' chaff and you do this by looking at what other things a person has posted. It would take you no more than two mins to investigate what Keystone, Keithgillyon and myself do and that little effort would have saved much.

Good luck.

DieHard

Fair enough, it seems like the anti vac trap has worked though (well so far anyway).

The problem with the water draining even when the plug was in has been solved with a new plug.

I think it would not have been a problem if the pedestal had not been concreted in.

I tightened up the nut as much as I could but it is still weeping a little bit. I might try some silicone but it is so slight it is not a major worry.

yvonne13_2

OP have you tried Buster?