In the words of the bard...

..."Bidet -- or not bidet -- that is the question."

Had to do a little more home repair here at "the Halls" the other day. Despite frantic disinfecting and cleaning, we'd been getting a really bad port-a-potty odor in the upstairs bathroom lately.

After a failed effort at isolating the smell to any one of our drains, I pulled the toilet and installed a new wax seal on the drain.

Strangely enough, the smell got worse the next day.

In a desperation move, I dumped a few pailfuls of water down the never-used bidet... thinking that sewer gas might be meandering up through the empty p-trap.

The problem is... for the moment... fixed... but I'm wondering whether it's actually the bidet, or maybe a plumbing system main vent issue?

Anybody out there ever run into this?

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