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Quick note to thank you for advice John. After cleaning and sinking a couple of bleach blocks in the cistern, smell is much less and seemingly on its way out. Thanks again for your help.

Excellent work John with the pictures and description - with my username also. Thanks I'm going to get serious with the cistern and it's overflow, this weekend on your advice. I may even try and discover where the overflow goes but that might involve knocking walls down, so might not. If this...

The lid is quite shiny and new I'm afraid. The bathroom is spotless and has been bleached out and scrubbed by me a couple of time since moving in. If I put my nose down to the bowl (great fun) it smells stronger. Where does this water go to when flushed.? Could the smell be returning from there?

what's a cistern overflow? What does it look like? Forgive my ignorance

Hi John, I'm sure it's the water as when I lift the lid, this is where the smell seems to be coming froms from. I had the whole flat treated for damp before moving in (plaster hacked off, extreme job) -so it should not be damp. The smell is specific to the toilet. When I open the lid it is...

The water in the toilet of my basement flat has a sort of musty smell that seemingly varies in strength day-to-day. Or maybe that is just my sense of smell adjusting or being different day-to-day! All I have done so far is to keep the lid down, put one of those freshener blocks in the cistern...

Thanks John. I'll take a look and report back

I live in a basement conversion flat and am gradually working my way through the many and various problems with it. Next on my list is the fact that when I turn on the hot water tap in the bathroom, the water that comes out (though clean and normal looking and hot) is accompanied by a smell...