Toilet woes (en suite)

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I am so sorry if this is tmi(!) but I hate the toilet smells in our en suite! Namely the poo smells 🙈

My DC and I both prefer using it to the family bathroom as we have small DC and have a toddler seat set up in there and they are in and out using it etc so we predominantly use the one in our en suite.

Does anyone have a good solution for masking the smells and making their en suite/ loo actually smell nice??

I have tried different things and nothing seems to work for long, bought reed diffusers and at the start is good but it’s not long before the scent disappears or is undetectable (I don’t get it!) tried room sprays etc.

I don’t want to waste more money, so thought would ask on here in case anyone has found a good - and long lasting - solution

I agree with pooing in the family bathroom. We’ve managed with the 4 of us for the past 15 or so years.

I can see why people have such aversions to ensuites if they have only experienced ones like yours. What a terrible design, poor you! Banishing poos is probably your only option to prevent the smell. If you use bleach, a little squirt in the pan after a poo might help kill bacteria causing smells.

I love my ensuite, as the always open trickle vents in the window and the extractor running on for 15 mins deals with any smells in mine. No wafts of poo while in my bed.

Bleach is a terrible thing to use all the time in the toilet, and so unnecessary. Our toilet never smells of shit. However the strong smell of urine is hard to shift. It's just the miasma in the air you need to shift. And if there's a ventilation issue, and this sounds like what it is. Then you are going to be stuffed. No masking with other perfumes or harsh detergents is going to cover it.

Thank you so much for your advice everyone - definitely a few ideas to try!

Yes the ventilation is definitely an issue I think, this is our first en suite so haven’t had the no-window situation before. Wherever possible we will switch it up to using the family bathroom I think, which has windows.

I guess my only question is does anyone use a room fragrance they like? Not a spray, but something that continually releases a little bit of nice fragrance (in any room not necessarily just a bathroom). I’d still quite like some kind of nice smell to permeate the en-suite, as it is such a tiny room and the stale water from shower drain whiffs a bit (it is a poor design imo and promotes stale water pooling even with regular cleaning). The reed diffusers just don’t cut it and don’t want to buy more as is a waste if they don’t release fragrance for long. No plug sockets in there it being a bathroom so can’t do plug ins.