Curry like smell from bathroom sink hot tap

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This is a genuine post.

Been getting a really strong curry smell in our flat bathroom this past 2 weeks and thought the new neighbours underneath just liked cooking curry 24/7.... we washed all the towels, shower curtain, bath mats, thoroughly cleaned the sink, bath tub, taps, tiles etc, put bleach in the bath and sink overflow holes and even scrubbed the bathroom floor until our hands hurt...

....but still a definite curry smell

Noticed it even more when bent forward to either clean teeth or run hot tap for a wash.

If you went in the bathroom now, it doesn't smell, yet run the hot tap for 30 seconds then you can smell curry (or something equally as pungent).

It sucks. It smells horrible. We had enough.

I can take a day off work and call the council to investigate but would get laughed off the phone saying our taps smell of curry so am taking the chance of posting on here to see if anyone has ever had something similiar happen, and how did you cure it?

Could it be something in the basin sink trap?, but we have tried bleach and copious kettles of boiling water.

Totally baffled and sick of the smell

Thank you.

-taff

not sulphur is it?

Hintza

Can you get the heat right up the boiler and then drain it?

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-taff wrote: »

not sulphur is it?

Hi, pretty sure it's not sulphur - if that's the rotten egg smell.

Saw elsewhere on google people saying it could be sulphur smell, but this really is like someone has put never ending curry powder in the tap

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Hintza wrote: »

Can you get the heat right up the boiler and then drain it?

Sorry, what do you mean get the heat right up and then drain it?

I can go and put the water temp on the combi boiler right up to the max right now if you think it would help, but as for draining it, you left me way behind! Sorry - bit thick me.

It's a council flat and I have a combi-boiler if that helps?

:think:

paddyrg

Could it be that the drains are smelling, and running the hot water into the drain exacerbates it? Does a clean glassful of hot water still smell of curry?

vaio

paddyrg wrote: »

Could it be that the drains are smelling, and running the hot water into the drain exacerbates it? Does a clean glassful of hot water still smell of curry?

Try one from the kitchen sink/any other hot tap as well.

My bet is drains too

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paddyrg wrote: »

Could it be that the drains are smelling, and running the hot water into the drain exacerbates it?

Does a clean glassful of hot water still smell of curry?

Never thought of that, thanks.

paddyrg wrote: »

Does a clean glassful of hot water still smell of curry?

Clean glass full of hot water doesn't smell, I filled one up and took it into another room.

Just smells when the hot bathroom sink tap runs..... weird.

btw we live in a top floor flat above shops. 3 levels of flats below us, with bathrooms one above another.

Why doesn't the hot bath tap make the smell or the kitchen hot tap?
They all run into the same soil stack i think it's called....

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vaio wrote: »

Try one from the kitchen sink/any other hot tap as well.

My bet is drains too

No smell from filling a glass of hot water from any of the hot taps, just when it's running. Totally weird but gross

vaio

pour a kettle or two of boiling water down the plug hole, it'll wash out the crap that's accumulated in the sink trap

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vaio wrote: »

pour a kettle or two of boiling water down the plug hole, it'll wash out the crap that's accumulated in the sink trap

Thanks but have already tried that, and bleach

I would try and get the trap out, but it's not readily accessible like the one under the kitchen sink. This one is really tight, up against the column of the bathroom sink basin (stating the obvious there!) and would need tiny hands to unscrew it...

Cheers though.