Smelly shower?

[Big Daddy]

A while back I started noticing a moldy smell in our bathroom. I'm mostly deaf but my nose is very sensitive. I traced it to the shower. I tried cleaning all that black and green stuff off the walls, but the smell persisted. DW poured some bleach down the drain and it went away for a while. I'm worried about killing our septic tank with bleach. Any ideas on something else that may get rid of the smell without harming the septic system?

 

[Dace]

I don't have a septic so I can't advise....Just bumping this back up till someone who knows what they are talking about can address it!

 

[inchworm]

Do you think the drain is the source? Have you checked the trap? We have to unscrew the plate on the back of our tub periodically and unwrap the 20 pounds of hair that sheds from dd's head. It is amazingly gross and stinky.

 

[k0xxx]

Not know how your home and plumbing is constructed it may be hard to say, but if your tub has a "gooseneck", check to make sure that it is holding water. The gooseneck keeps smells from your septic and piping in check. If it is leaking, it may also cause mold and rotting damage also. Good luck.

 

[FarmerChick]

My second bathroom shower isn't used much yet by Nicole. She gets her bath in the master bathroom all the time for now......and since I don't use it much I noticed a smell in her bathroom also.

It was the drain in the tub. So every day I turn on the water to rinse it and I poured a TON of vinegar down there and did not rinse. I let it sit for about 3 hrs and then flush rinsed. Then I poured a TON of bleach down it...and let it sit for like 3 hrs. and then rinsed.

No more smell.


If you didn't have the smell before---and it is a newer current smell then it isn't the plumbing probably.

Pour vinegar first, let sit, then pour bleach and let sit. Then see if that works for your problem.