Help - Smelly toilet - despite obsessive cleaning!

[katy may]

I hope someone can help! For the last week or so a horrid smell has been lurking in the bathroom. I think it smells like stale urine, my partner says it's more like silage. After blaming him and my daughter for poor aim, scrubbing everywhere with bleach and generally being obsessive about hygiene I'm beginning to think the smell is actually coming from the toilet itself. The pan doesn't move, the cistern is working and there are no blockages (or at least not as far as my hand reaches). The stack pipe seems to have a cage over the top so wouldn't be full of bird's nest? The only things I can see that might be different is a) that the water level in the pan looks a little low - although I wouldn't swear to it it's not something I generally take much notice of, and b) the next door neighbours overflow is running (they've promised to fix it) on to my rook and down the drain Any ideas would be gratefully received, it's driving me mad!

 

[jobloggs]

As long as the water in the bowl is higher than the top of the outlet in the bowl the water seal should prevent smells from that direction.

Other possibilities:

Check that the U bend in the bath is full of water. In houses where people shower rather than bath the water seal can be lost over time.

Have you carpet in bathroom.? Hubby's bad aim. Wee boys are big trouble in this respect anyway.

By the way a rook that has not the sense to move out of the way of an overflowing pipe is not worth having as a pet.

 

[JPC]

Check that the U bend in the bath is full of water. In houses where people shower rather than bath the water seal can be lost over time

what, even if the shower is over the bath !

have u a leak at the back of the toilet where it joins the pan connector and soil pipe etc ?
or a hole in it ? ....i saw a flexible pan connector with a split in it on the top...it did not leak but could chuck out so smells