If you are using your bathroom regularly in Singapore, then foul odors in it can be a regular event, but if you are not using it frequently or at all, there must be some serious reason behind its foul odor. In such a situation, before calling cleaning services to clean it, you should first off all know the reason behind it.
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There can be many reasons behind the foul odors in your bathroom, including the scent of highly flammable methane gas coming through the municipal sewage system. But the good thing is that you can quickly and inexpensively eliminate these stinking smells that can create breathing problems after identifying their source.
Some of these reasons can be managed by you by making some easy efforts whereas some need the help of professional cleaning services if you are unable to amend yourself the faults causing it. So to know the type of fault, you must investigate your bathroom to find the real cause behind the bad odor.
First, you should find the source of foul odors in your bathroom by going closer to the shower, sink, and toilet drain. If any of them is stinking, even if you have cleaned them one or two days earlier, scrubbing them repeatedly may not help eliminate foul odors.
But if you have not cleaned them in the near past, then you can use a good toilet cleaner to scrub clean the toilet bowl, sink, and shower to eliminate the foul smell in the bathroom. If the smell persists, you should call cleaning services for this purpose.
Plumbing problem
Faulty plumbing can be one of the main reasons for foul odors in your bathroom. If you know the basics about the working of plumbing systems, then you can easily detect the reason behind these nasty smells. The waste pipes of various accessories in your bathroom, including sink, toilet, shower, etc., are linked together before connecting the plumbing of your home with the municipal sewage system, and a vent is opened at your roof to allow the sewage gases go out through it in the sky.
If any of these connections get blocked, your bathroom will start stinking.
Moreover, the P-traps under these accessories retain some water to obstruct the backfire of nasty odors caused by sewage gases. If the water in the P-traps had dried up with time, even then, your might have a horrible smell as in standard condition gases flowing back pass to your roof through vent pipe instead of stinking your bathroom.
If drying water in the P-traps of your bathroom is the main reason for foul odors, you can quickly fix it by pouring some water into them to their required level. If you are remodeling your bathroom, you can put a cap on the open drain pipe until the installation of a new fixture to stop the in-flow of the foul smell of the sewage system.
But suppose the bathroom you regularly use stinks even after cleaning it periodically, or sewage odor persists after pouring plenty of water down the drain. In that case, you should focus on leakage around the P-trap to find its source. Sewage gases can leak into your bathroom even through a small crack in the plumbing system. You can also resolve the problem of
terrible smell without calling cleaning services by blocking this leakage.
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Specific other simple methods can be tried to eliminate the bed smell in your bathroom without calling cleaning services. These methods may include:
- Cleaning the bathroom thoroughly by using good cleaning agents
- Opening the window and installing a vent
- Spray a good air freshener
- Light a non-scented candle to neutralize the odor
- Remove the substances blocking the flow of water in your sink or tub drain
- Keep the bathroom door open to ventilate it when not in use
- Check mildew, molds, and rain leaks in the window
- Change your old and defaced shower curtain
- The wax seal on the floor under the toilet can be changed
- Check the overflow service panel of the tub or shower in the wall to see whether it is dry or wet
- Bleach the bathmats, laundry, and towels as directed by their manufacturers
- Clean the outdoor duct of the exhaust fan to through away foul odors properly
But you cannot detect the reason for the problem of foul odors in your bathroom or cope with it yourself. You should quickly call sewage cleaning or plumbing service providers to manage the situation.
Calling the cleaning services or plumber
If you cannot find any crack in the plumbing system or the water in the P-trap has not dried up to cause foul odors in your bathroom, then calling the cleaning services or plumbing services can be the only solution for you.
Sometimes it becomes tricky to find out why the smell comes from inside the bathroom as the actual problem exists somewhere else. It may be due to blockage of the vent caused by the stuffing of leaves, ice, snow, or bird’s nest, which prevents foul air from going out to the sky and fresh air from entering your plumbing system.
Improper installation or cuts in the vent pipe can also be one of the reasons for foul odors in your bathroom. It may be easy to track down the crack in the vent pipe concealed in the wall if you are professionally trained for such activities.
In such conditions, only cleaning services or professional plumbers can help you eliminate foul smells in your bathroom in Singapore. They can quickly locate the main reason behind the problem as they are trained for it.
