Help with bathroom odors?

[southgeorgia]

Originally Posted by southernnaturelover

And if you have plywood floors the pee will soak into the plywood and not go away no matter how much you recover it.

I was thinking the same thing.


We remodeled a house once that someone died in, and we couldn't get their smell out until we ripped up and replaced the subfloor. It had absorbed all their fluids (person was in the house for about a week before being found). You may have to do the same.

[Woof Woof Woof!]

Originally Posted by southernnaturelover

My house used to belong to my grandfather before he passed away. He was elderly and disabled so many times he didn't exactly "ring the bowl". What happened was the pee went into the crack under the toilet, so even though everything visible in the bathroom was cleaned, the pee was still under there. When I moved in I decided to gut the whole bathroom, and when I pulled up the toilet I discovered that the pee had gotten under the linoleum and soaked into the plywood subfloor. I replaced all of the subfloor and the smell was gone.

I was going to say, young men and older men often miss. And with older men, their "valves" don't work as well, so there is dribbling that occurs.

[southernnaturelover]

Originally Posted by southgeorgia

We remodeled a house once that someone died in, and we couldn't get their smell out until we ripped up and replaced the subfloor. It had absorbed all their fluids (person was in the house for about a week before being found). You may have to do the same.

Oh my! I'm not sure I could handle that.

[vicket]

Thanks, everyone! I am off to buy a wax seal! Keep your fingers crossed.