A problem, for shore

[Jim Rice]

(Sorry about the pun). This is a shore based experience with definite application to marine heads:We had a toilet leak in our condo. It's fixed now, but a bad smell persists. We scrubbed the floor after the old toilet came off, but the smell is still there (after a couple of weeks of using the new one).The question is: where can smells live? If your holding tank overflowed or the PortaPotti leaked, and you cleaned it up pretty well, where else would you go looking for residual smells? Cracks are one place to look, for sure. Can the fiberglass itself take up an odor?Thanks your time on this one.

 

[Peggie Hall/Head Mistress]

I'd go looking under the tile or carpet...

Cuz a leaky toilet can easily penetrate the subflooring. You should be able to get rid of the odor the same way we recommend getting rid of it after a spill on a boat: clean the area with detergent and water...let it dry (you've already done that)...then saturate it with K.O. holding tank treatment--which you can get right here on the online store. Use a lot...it won't stain, and it does need to soack into your subfloor. Let it dry....the bacteria in K.O. will "eat" all the odor and get rid of it permanently.And btw--it works great on pet accident sites too.

 

[jolie]

Holding tank foam smell

My Hunter Passage 42 sewage system had some problems and during the course of treatment, I also spilled some holding tank smelly juice into the foam around the holding tank surround area.Now I am getting some slight smell coming out of the bildge area where the holding tank resides.Do you think its some residual smell still in the foam, or is it just slight permeated hoses, or what???It sbeen about a month since the spill.Should I try the KO treatment on the foam???

 

[Peggie Hall/Head Mistress]

Yep...the instructions I gave Jim..

should do the trick for you too, Jolie.