The strong smell can quickly fill your bathroom with an unpleasant odor.
How to get rid of stinky bathroom drains.
Smelly bathroom drains can be caused by a number of things that can stick to pipes including dead skin rubbish food a build up of soap scum and solidified liquids like oils.
Dodgy pipes can also cause odours particularly if you live in an older house as pre 1980 pipes were made of clay joined with cement.
Determining the cause of the sewer smell can help you prevent it from returning in the future.
So try this simple method to clean the drain first and see if it solves the problem.
While it may smell dangerous the sewer smell usually consists of problem that you can fix yourself.
Rinse away the bleach with a gallon of hot water dumped slowly down the drain.
If the problem persists you may have to disassemble the p trap and.
Stir a couple of drops of liquid dish detergent into two quarts of very hot water and pour this down the drain.
Next pour bleach down the drain close the bathroom door and allow to sit for two hours.
Rinse the drain with a gallon of hot water wait 15 minutes then rinse with cold water for ten minutes.
Luckily keeping the drain clean and odor free is a fairly easy task and requires only a couple of inexpensive household ingredients.
Close the bathroom door and allow the mixture to sit for two hours.
A sewer odor that emits from the bathroom sink drain can cause you to panic.