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Christopher B (VA)
I live in a 10th floor apartment in a building that I estimate was built in the 1960s. I have lived here for 10 years and this problem is very recent. In the single bathroom, the toilet produces a rotten egg smell that varies from faint to very strong. It also varies in when it's present and when it's not present, with no pattern that I can figure out. One morning I get up and go in the bathroom and the smell is awful, but the next morning I go in the bathroom and it doesn't smell at all. Same variation during the course of a day if I'm home all day, one time it will smell and the next time I go in it won't smell. I have thoroughly bleached and scrubbed the bowl and the inside of the toilet tank with no result. It's not a urine smell or a sewage smell, more of a rotten egg smell. I have no problem with the toilet draining or re-filling, no problem with the shower draining (the shower and toilet merge into a common drain somewhere downstream). I am at my wit's end trying to figure out why the smell comes and goes with no pattern related to toilet use or etc. And also how to correct it. I do not have my own water heater or anything in the apartment, just toilet, shower and sinks.
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KCRoto (MO)
Call your apartment maintenance and ask them to replace the wax ring under the toilet. If that is where the smell is coming from, that will solve the problem. It is also possible that one of you neighbors is using chemicals and you are getting the vapors. I know of people that have been caught making illegal drugs in bathtubs of hotels, so anything is possible. Sulfuric acid and muratic acid in particular can produce very strong odors.
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srloren (CA)
KCRoto is right on with his suggestions. In order to determing if the smell is coming from the base of the toilet, use a 1/4" tubing to smell with, this will concentrate the smell to better determing if this is the location of the smell. Good luck.
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