Hi. Started getting some nasty smells in the bathroom. I think they're coming from the toilet plumbing. Does this look right? At first I thought that the flexible connector/pipe had come loose from the hard grey soil pipe it joins on to. I thought that I had to jam it on to provide a tight friction join. But I can't do it, and it doesn't really look like that it's possible. On the other hand, surely smells would escape from a join that was not airtight. What do you think?
Toilet smells
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The smells I come across most frequently come from basin/bath/shower waste traps, when the wind blows the water out and they need more adding.
Right, didn't know about them. Anyway they're not there. If I pull out the flexi completely and look into the soil pipe I see a rubber ring sitting in the pipe. It looks like it may have been a kind of gasket/O-ring put over the flexi pipe end to form the seal when pushed into the soil pipe. Perhaps it's slipped off. I'll have a play around in a bit. Thanks for that.
Yea, I understand that, but at the mo I don't think it's from there.
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Do you have a vented stack or air admittance valve?
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Double check that toilet connection then and any traps which may have induced syphoning.