Fishy Smell In Bathroom

Aliphatic amines have a fishy smell and are liberated when plastic electrical fittings get over warm and particularly as they age.

Fishy smell in bathroom. One thing worth checking is believe it or not the light fitting. To get rid of the smell but nothing seemed to shift it. Typically 13 amp plugs are in fact unable properly to handle 13 amp loads i e 3kw and will always get warm if handling such loads. Trimethylaminuria fish odour syndrome trimethylaminuria tmau is an uncommon condition that causes an unpleasant fishy smell.

It s also called fish odour syndrome. We had that in a house we moved into. So the fish smell was greatest after having been in the bathroom with all of the lighting on for 15 20 minutes. Old ones can emit a horrid fishy smell when they get hot.

A fishy smell can be a sign of electrical circuits overheating. For a few days our bathroom has smelt horrible like rotten fish. It drove us nuts trying to work out what it was because it only seemed to be a problem at night. I thought the drains were playing up so i tried bleach e t c.

Of course with hindsight that was when the light was turned on. As it turns out taking a shower just exacerbated the faulty electrical switch because the bathroom wiring was routed through that outlet. Fishy smell in bathroom was actually melting wires in shower on off switch.