A smell of ammonia in the room bathroom not only offends your nose, could indicate a serious problem with the toilet. Ignoring the problem will only lead to worse, this may jeopardize the health and safety of anyone living in the house or use the bathroom.

Hazards

Although the ammonia odor in your bathroom is probably not ammonia, which is dangerous to inhale, the smell can still pose a danger to you or to anyone else in the house. The odor may be of sewer gases, which are harmful to anyone who inhales for a longer period of time. Sewer gases may also be flammable, which leads to a possible fire or explosion in the house.

Dry trap

The trap or curved tube at the bottom of a toilet bowl is designed to keep sewer gases out of the house. The curve literally trap traps water in the pipe, creating a block sewer gases. When not using the toilet for a long time, the trap is dry. The speed with which the trap to dry depends on the humidity levels in the house, with the water off, sewage gases entering the bathroom. You can prevent this by flushing toilets less used periodically to maintain complete trap.

Broken seal

A broken seal between the base of the toilet and the bathroom floor can lead to escaping sewer gases. The seal is formed by a wax ring is compressed between the bottom of the toilet and a flange which is anchored on the floor of the bathroom and the basement. Any seal will break if the bathroom is not anchored firmly enough and allowing the bathroom rocking or moving in any direction.

The placement of the wax ring, so that the curved side faces the flange and not the toilet also leads to leaks. You can repair the broken wax ring toilet and removing the damaged scraping ring and then installing a new ring. To repair a broken flange, you must repair a belt anchor on the rim.

Sewerage agencies

The organisms living in the sewer may find a way through the trap bath, especially if it is dried for a period of time, and take up residence in the bowl. The organisms live just below the rim, through the portholes where water from the reservoir flows into the container each time you rinse. The water runs through agencies may leave some odors. A toilet brush and toilet cleaner will not remove the organisms. You must pour several cups of bleach in the drain pipe of the toilet, located in the tank, to kill microorganisms and odor.