This may be kind of a weird subject for WordPress, but I’ve got to get it out there because it took me a while to figure it out. If you’ve got a bidet attachment — one of the budget clip-on ones especially — and your bathroom has a faint smell you can’t track down no matter how much you scrub, take the bidet off and look underneath it. That’s where it is. Stuff gets past the seal, especially with men or kids in the house, and it pools in the gap under the unit where it never dries out and you never think to look. You can bleach the entire room and the smell just… stays. Because you’re cleaning everywhere except the one place.
I went weeks on my own before it clicked. Cleaned that bathroom top to bottom more than once. Figured I was losing my mind a little.
I think the reason it took me so long is the same reason roofs fool people. I’ve been doing this around Canton for fifteen years, and the number one thing I’ve learned is that the problem is almost never where the problem looks like it is. A ceiling stain shows up in the living room; the actual leak is fifteen feet away, uphill, where the water got in and ran. People point at the stain. The stain is just where it finally came out.
So now I look under things. The roof, the bidet, whatever. It’s not deep or anything. It’s just that the obvious spot is usually the wrong spot, and I’ve stopped trusting the obvious spot.
Anyway. Go check under your bidet.
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