i’m freaking out a bit. we’ve just moved into our new brownstone after doing some cosmetic renovations for the past several months and there is a fairly strong urine-y smell coming from the toilet area in the kids bathroom that just won’t quit. there is also a 4 inch shallow hole behind the toilet where with the pipes, where the previous owners must have done some repair work, but never closed it back up again. my fear is that the kids before ours regularly peed in the hole either on purpose or accidentally, making me wonder how the smell can be dealt with. we’ve had professional cleaners come over, and i’ve scrubbed the tiles\/walls at least 10 times with every cleaner out there and it’s still there. can we blow some kind of foam in there to seal it? will the smell ever go away? i’m ready to rip out the entire bathroom and just start over, but, of course, would rather not…what can i do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
i’m freaking out a bit. we’ve just moved into our new brownstone after doing some cosmetic renovations for the past several months and there is a fairly strong urine-y smell coming from the toilet area in the kids bathroom that just won’t quit. there is also a 4 inch shallow hole behind the toilet where…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-13344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2007\/06\/urine-smell-in\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"urine smell in bathroom won’t go away","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2007\/06\/urine-smell-in\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2007\/06\/urine-smell-in\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Brokers","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"anon"}],"creator":["anon"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2007-06-21T21:33:19Z","datePublished":"2007-06-21T21:33:19Z","dateModified":"2008-07-28T16:27:34Z"},"rendered":"