Bad smell from toilet waste - any advice?

[benunited]

Wonder if anyone can help!?

I'm doing my bathroom and removed my toilet a week ago. I stuffed a towel down the waste pipe, bagged it and taped it up.

Thing is, the room has started to stink and I think it may be spreading. It seems to be coming out of the en suite and I think it may also be coming out of the airbricks outside the house.

Smells like a horrid gas. Any advice much appreciated!

 

[tamz]

Get a move on and get the new one fitted or buy a drain plug

 

[benunited]

Thanks - that's the plan

Just wondering if the smells in the house are likely to be from the waste pipe?

Also, went to plumbers merchant and asked if there was something I could buy (like a drain plug) and they said there wasn't.

 

[tamz]

Of course there is. You probably spoke to a numpty. (Merchants are well known places to find them.)

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[benunited]

Thanks!

Any idea why the smell seems to be going round the house and through other pipes?

 

[Guest123]

Are you sure that when you took out your old toilet, that you didn't disturb the soil/drainage connection? Sounds like a broken pipe if it's smelling that bad or even a partial blockage somewhere. As water is not going through it, the smell could be from something lying inside the drain.

Plug a few electric air fresheners in and get the soil pipe checked out before fitting the toilet.

 

[tamz]

Maybe a ventilation issue. Hard to say without seeing it as is.