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Smelly urinals
Just (2 months ago) started a new job and the Gents is very smelly.
Long story short, they swapped out the urinals for waterless urinals (were they a fad??). And then swapped back, but didnt install the new water ones properly (I suspect they didnt install a trap(s). You couldnt make it up! |
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... Just (2 months ago) started a new job and the Gents is very smelly. Long story short, they swapped out the urinals for waterless urinals (were they a fad??). And then swapped back, but didnt install the new water ones properly (I suspect they didnt install a trap(s). You couldnt make it up! I'd have thought that traps were needed irrespective of whether they use water to flush them. There needs to be something to prevent the sewer gases venting out of the drain hole. My experience with waterless urinals is that they smell more of stale urine that ordinary ones because it dries on the surface and doesn't get rinsed off with water every so often. |
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On 16/08/2018 09:08, NY wrote:
wrote in message ... Just (2 months ago) started a new job and the Gents is very smelly. Long story short, they swapped out the urinals for waterless urinals (were they a fad??). And then swapped back, but didnt install the new water ones properly (I suspect they didnt install a trap(s). You couldnt make it up! I'd have thought that traps were needed irrespective of whether they use water to flush them. There needs to be something to prevent the sewer gases venting out of the drain hole. My experience with waterless urinals is that they smell more of stale urine that ordinary ones because it dries on the surface and doesn't get rinsed off with water every so often. The problem with many high usage "public" toilets is a build up of uric salt crystals from urine which can cause the smell. In a pub I use the problem caused by this type of blocking mechanism was well down-line from the traps attached to the urinals. The smell/blockage problem now solved. -- mailto : news {at} admac {dot} myzen {dot} co {dot} uk |
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On Friday, 17 August 2018 03:47:42 UTC+1, alan_m wrote:
On 16/08/2018 09:08, NY wrote: wrote in message ... Just (2 months ago) started a new job and the Gents is very smelly. Long story short, they swapped out the urinals for waterless urinals (were they a fad??). And then swapped back, but didnt install the new water ones properly (I suspect they didnt install a trap(s). You couldnt make it up! I'd have thought that traps were needed irrespective of whether they use water to flush them. There needs to be something to prevent the sewer gases venting out of the drain hole. My experience with waterless urinals is that they smell more of stale urine that ordinary ones because it dries on the surface and doesn't get rinsed off with water every so often. The problem with many high usage "public" toilets is a build up of uric salt crystals from urine which can cause the smell. In a pub I use the problem caused by this type of blocking mechanism was well down-line from the traps attached to the urinals. The smell/blockage problem now solved. what removes them? NT |
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wrote in message ... On Friday, 17 August 2018 03:47:42 UTC+1, alan_m wrote: On 16/08/2018 09:08, NY wrote: wrote in message ... Just (2 months ago) started a new job and the Gents is very smelly. Long story short, they swapped out the urinals for waterless urinals (were they a fad??). And then swapped back, but didnt install the new water ones properly (I suspect they didnt install a trap(s). You couldnt make it up! I'd have thought that traps were needed irrespective of whether they use water to flush them. There needs to be something to prevent the sewer gases venting out of the drain hole. My experience with waterless urinals is that they smell more of stale urine that ordinary ones because it dries on the surface and doesn't get rinsed off with water every so often. The problem with many high usage "public" toilets is a build up of uric salt crystals from urine which can cause the smell. In a pub I use the problem caused by this type of blocking mechanism was well down-line from the traps attached to the urinals. The smell/blockage problem now solved. what removes them? Nothing needs to when there is no build up of uric salt crystals from urine |
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On Friday, 17 August 2018 10:01:35 UTC+1, wrote:
what removes them? an illegal immigrant on 50p an hour. Owain |
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