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Help!!! When I came home tonight, I noticed a strong, horrible sewer odor in my bathroom. I’m pretty sure it is coming from the bathroom sink.

The same exact thing happened about a year ago and drove me insane because I could not figure out where it was coming from and didn’t know what to do. I basically scrubbed my entire bathroom with bleach and water (even though it was already clean) and poured bleach down all of the drains. None of this seemed to help but after a few days the smell did eventually disappear as mysteriously as it came.

The odor seems much worse this time. Does anyone have any ideas why this is happening and if there is anything I can try to do until I call maintenance tomorrow and they get around to checking it out? The maintenance department of my coop will probably not consider this an emergency and will not rush right over.

Thank you.