@Peggie Hall HeadMistress
Twice we have been hit with a very foul odor from the head. Once when filling the toilet with water and once when flushing. Using the head for pee only. Fresh water fill only.
Here's some history:
This is our first season with our 93 C30.
The holding tank was pumped out during the sea trial when we bought the boat.
The surveyor identified the toilet as an old PAR/Jabsco. The pump leaked, he recommended replacing. I replaced it before launch this spring.
We had been filling the bowl with fresh water from a jug. This had worked well.
I pumped out the holding tank once late June. I was getting fuel and there is free pump out service at the dock so I took advantage.
Then last weekend I had finally fixed the leaking spigot so I tried the "filling the sink with fresh water and using that to flush the bowl" trick. The sink drain was already T'd into the head water intake line.
I tested it, seemed to work well. It flushed some black flakes from the rim of the bowl so I figured it would work better/easier than just dumping water into the bowl.
Then the Admiral and I went sailing for the day. I used the head, no problem.
She needed to pee and I hadn't showed her how to fill the bowl so I went to the head and filled the sink, then used that water to fill the bowl. For some reason this caused the foulest stink to come out of the bowl. While I was quickly opening every hatch and port, the Admiral was gagging in the cockpit from the fumes coming from the cabin. That ended our day of sailing.
Thinking the odor came from the old, probably original toilet, I installed the Raritan Sea Era QC fresh water flush toilet. Replaced all associated water hoses and discharge hose to the holding tank.
I flushed it 3-4 times. No odor. Great, time to go sailing.
While sailing yesterday I used the new toilet for the first time. No problem.
When it was the Admiral's turn I showed her how to fill the bowl with water prior. Then how to flush. When she flushed we again got hit with that same awful stench.
The smell is similar to a low tide type of smell, rather than a sewer smell. It isn't the same smell we had when we had the leaking macerator and I removed it or the smell we got from the hot water lines before we flushed them.
I also did't get any noticeable smell when changing the discharge hose between the toilet and holding tank.
I've treated the fresh water tanks (2) with bleach as recommended by your book, when I filled them and again while I was installing the new toilet.
What's really confusing me about this issue is:
1. When I used the fresh water in the sink to fill the toilet, the water in the sink didn't smell. Only when I pumped it into the head did the smell hit.
2. When replacing the discharge hose between holding tank and toilet I got no smell from the holding tank.
Any and all suggestions are appreciated.
Thanks
Twice we have been hit with a very foul odor from the head. Once when filling the toilet with water and once when flushing. Using the head for pee only. Fresh water fill only.
Here's some history:
This is our first season with our 93 C30.
The holding tank was pumped out during the sea trial when we bought the boat.
The surveyor identified the toilet as an old PAR/Jabsco. The pump leaked, he recommended replacing. I replaced it before launch this spring.
We had been filling the bowl with fresh water from a jug. This had worked well.
I pumped out the holding tank once late June. I was getting fuel and there is free pump out service at the dock so I took advantage.
Then last weekend I had finally fixed the leaking spigot so I tried the "filling the sink with fresh water and using that to flush the bowl" trick. The sink drain was already T'd into the head water intake line.
I tested it, seemed to work well. It flushed some black flakes from the rim of the bowl so I figured it would work better/easier than just dumping water into the bowl.
Then the Admiral and I went sailing for the day. I used the head, no problem.
She needed to pee and I hadn't showed her how to fill the bowl so I went to the head and filled the sink, then used that water to fill the bowl. For some reason this caused the foulest stink to come out of the bowl. While I was quickly opening every hatch and port, the Admiral was gagging in the cockpit from the fumes coming from the cabin. That ended our day of sailing.
Thinking the odor came from the old, probably original toilet, I installed the Raritan Sea Era QC fresh water flush toilet. Replaced all associated water hoses and discharge hose to the holding tank.
I flushed it 3-4 times. No odor. Great, time to go sailing.
While sailing yesterday I used the new toilet for the first time. No problem.
When it was the Admiral's turn I showed her how to fill the bowl with water prior. Then how to flush. When she flushed we again got hit with that same awful stench.
The smell is similar to a low tide type of smell, rather than a sewer smell. It isn't the same smell we had when we had the leaking macerator and I removed it or the smell we got from the hot water lines before we flushed them.
I also did't get any noticeable smell when changing the discharge hose between the toilet and holding tank.
I've treated the fresh water tanks (2) with bleach as recommended by your book, when I filled them and again while I was installing the new toilet.
What's really confusing me about this issue is:
1. When I used the fresh water in the sink to fill the toilet, the water in the sink didn't smell. Only when I pumped it into the head did the smell hit.
2. When replacing the discharge hose between holding tank and toilet I got no smell from the holding tank.
Any and all suggestions are appreciated.
Thanks