Horrible smell around toilet- help!

[Mummyk1982]

Hi all

Over the last few weeks there's been a really horrible smell like stale urine/public loo smell around my toilet in the en suite. The loo is flushing fine, there's no apparent blockage. I've cleaned the bathroom 3 times in the last week with different smelling cleaners to try and 'lift' the smell, I've used toilet duck, smelly candles and of course thoroughly washed the toilet countless times- but I can't shift te smell.

Annoyingly we are hoping to exchange contracts this week and hope to move a week on Friday so I need to get this sorted!

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!!!

I would be looking more at the floor area or maybe walls if they're close to the toilet as well as the waste pipe at the back. Can you take the seat off and give the hinges a good scrub?

Could there be a hole in the pan connector or something? Maybe not big enough to cause an obvious leak.

Our downstairs loo is right next to a radiator and sometimes I have to give the radiator a thorough clean

Yep, cleaned the hinges. Not sure I can access the waste pipe as it's all tiled in :-/ eeks!!

This happens sometimes in our downstairs loo.

I have to get a scourer and reach right up under the rim (where the water comes out) - it seems to evade regular cleaning, and only a proper scrub shifts the grot. This seems to work.

Is the water level in the pan low?

When this happened to us, it was a tiny leak which we couldn't see. I put one of those blocks that turns the water blue in the cistern and then we could see the leak. We needed a plumber to fix it.