my bathroom smell has gone, YEAH BABY, YEAH BABY, YEAH BABY. i can even leave the door open and while i watch the tv downstairs i don't have to smell that smell. again, YEAH BABY!!!!!!!!!

I'm happy for you, but what's it about?

Did you air out your bathroom? If so, well done!

listen, do you want to know a secret, do you promise not to tell.........
stink pipe darling, works a treat...........

What is a stink pipe? Is this something you smoke while in the bathroom?

you wish!!!!!

no, i'm inglese, in the uk we have a stink pipe. we also have our sewage outlet pipes on the outside of the house, so we refitted the bathroom and realised there was no u bend on the bath so the stink, which will rise to it's highest point, was coming up through the bath overflow and also as we flushed the toilet it would quickly come through the toilet water as it was flushed, i have a very good nose, i've had four kids, anyways, we replaced the sink, bog and bath, installed u bends on all of them and put the waste pipe outside the house on a t junction, the waste goes down and the stink from the septic goes up, the waste pipe goes up above the roof line along with the stink, hey presto, the kids don't get shouted at for leaving the bathroom door open anymore and the stink has gone with the wind darling.....no charge.....

Thank goodness. I had pictured you puffing a hookah whilst taking a massive.

i think you'll find the correct spelling is hooker........lol!!!!!
and i, like the queen, never take a massive or carry money.

I've suggested those U-pipes to my girlfriend when she complains about the smell that sometimes comes from the bathroom when neither one of us has used it! Can't quite figure out why they aren't used as much in Europe.

Quick story though... I did work on an album a few years back just outside of Montreal with a talented lad who's great-grandfather (or something like that) patented that stink pipe (or something like that)... It explains why the family lives on a well groomed piece of land larger then some countries! It took me an entire day and an ATV just to discover all four of their lakes!

Congratulations on getting your stench sorted!!!

I have a bathroom problem of my own today. Our whole flat is covered in scaffolding and, even though we are on the first floor, I currently have builders at the bathroom window working on the window frames...and I really need to go to the loo! I can't even go down to the bar as my son is sick and is in bed.

I would laugh but I need to keep my legs crossed!

Every place I've lived in Europe (Germany 1982-85, UK 1993, Italy 1994-2008) has had traps in the drains. The only place I've lived that didn't have traps was Korea (1989-1991).

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Originally posted by Bill 2:
Every place I've lived in Europe (Germany 1982-85, UK 1993, Italy 1994-2008) has had traps in the drains. The only place I've lived that didn't have traps was Korea (1989-1991).

And how many of these places in particular were not affiliated with the U.S. military?

All of them. I've never lived on a military base overseas.

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Originally posted by Bill 2:
All of them. I've never lived on a military base overseas.

Does that mean all of them were in no way affiliated with the military or the bases in which you worked? Just trying to get to the bottom of this one as my experiences have been quite different... mostly in Italy. Germany on the other hand sure likes a clean well running bathroom in my experience!

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Does that mean all of them were in no way affiliated with the military or the bases in which you worked?

Yes. They were rented by German and Italian landlords to the general public. The house I bought here in Italy was being sold by an Italian family to the general public.

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Originally posted by C in Bo:
Congratulations on getting your stench sorted!!!

I have a bathroom problem of my own today. Our whole flat is covered in scaffolding and, even though we are on the first floor, I currently have builders at the bathroom window working on the window frames...and I really need to go to the loo! I can't even go down to the bar as my son is sick and is in bed.

I would laugh but I need to keep my legs crossed!

I feel your pain... I hope they finish in this lifetime!

Before I left a while back they started to redo the roof on the palazzo where my girlfriend lives. I told her, "Oh no... you know they will be working on this for 6 months!" She said, "Ma no... they will finish in a few weeks" Here it is a few months later, I'm back and there's junk from the roof and other materials everywhere around the place... they're still not done up there and today with no rain in Bologna there is only one guy up there walking around. What does he hope to do up there all by himself?!

I think I have this problem now. Except it's a little different... it's not my bathroom that smells, it's the stink pipe (hence the name) which unfortunately is located above my bathroom window, so the odors come into my bathroom/room! Is there anyway to fix this? Hook up another pipe to it to move it higher? Ugh.

Yes, have an idraulico extend the vent pipe a meter or so higher.

usually the pipe is above the roof line, you can put bends on the pipe and get it above.