Bathroom smells?

[AudiSport]

Our bathroom has a bad drain smell... If bought some pipe unblocked to use before I call in the plumber - any tips guys?

[condor]

Not too sure what your sentence means - but I'll go with the smelly plug-hole interpretation. I'd suggest putting something like 'mr Musle' drain unblocker or a similar type brand down it and wait and see if it goes away.

[RemainAllHoof]

Or freshly boiled water down everything. Are there any units you may not have used eg separate shower and you prefer the bath or the other way round? The U-bend may have dried up.

[Cogcog]

I find bleach does the trick and I pop a bleach tablet down the overflow. Onky last a week or so before the mix of soap, hair and chemicals create another wiff but the tablet are 18 for £1 .

[Rickyy]

Your are probably losing the water from your traps.

Do you get a gurgling sound from the basin when the bath drains or vice versa?

Push a pencil down the plug hole of your basin, bath or shower and use it as a dip stick to see how much water is in the trap.

[neilsie]

had similar here - trap wasn't retaining sufficient water and you could feel breeze coming up through it.

reason for it, it met with the toilet waste which appeared to be causing sufficient vacuum, so that when the toilet was flushed, it dragged water out of the shower waste trap. In the end, changed the trap - as part of refitting the shower tray.

[Gingerbread Man]

Rickyy said:

Your are probably losing the water from your traps.

Do you get a gurgling sound from the basin when the bath drains or vice versa?

Push a pencil down the plug hole of your basin, bath or shower and use it as a dip stick to see how much water is in the trap.

Had to take down a ceiling to fix this exact problem with a shower the other day. Keyhole surgery and cutting through ply wood, making good someone else's mistakes.