I had an issue last year with a rotten smell in my bathroom (council flat) it smelled like sewage (or something equally as disgusting) so I was worried there was a leak from the toilet somewhere. The smell wasn’t constant, it would come and go which was really annoying when it would ‘pop up’ just as I’d stepped into a nice bubble bath.
The council sent a plumber who inspected the whole bathroom and said there was no leak, no wet patches and even more annoying when he visited, no smell! (typical) he put some stuff down the bath and sink incase there was something blocked in the drains and said if the smell came back to phone him. I immediately went out to collect the kids from school, got home, opened the front door and the smell hit me (sometimes the smell wafts out of the bathroom if the bathroom door isn’t shut) I phoned the plumber who came out right away. He was able to witness the smell and then said it smelled like a cat litter tray and asked if I had cats. I said no but I think the downstairs neighbour had one. He said that was the likely culprit. Apparently our showers (the walls behind them) are connected and it’s behind the panelling it’s just open space so if the neighbours cat little tray is being kept in the bathroom that’s what I’ll be smelling. He said I’d need to contact the council to report it and they’d inspect the property.
Obviously it’s awkward and I don’t want to embarrass the neighbour but I’ve mentioned it a couple of times in passing ‘there’s a horrible smell coming from behind my toilet can’t you smell anything in your bathroom? The plumber said it might be connected?’ and she swears blind there’s no smell in her bathroom (maybe she’s immune to it?) Its getting on my nerves now because even if there’s not a sh!t smell, there’s a rank dirty litter tray smell and it’s getting into other areas in my flat. I don’t mind the neighbour having animals but I shouldn’t have to deal with the smell of it surely!
AIBU phoning the council and asking them to sort it?