Musty smell in new MH

[Ken&Carol]

Hi
Hope someone can solve this mystery!!!!! MH only a couple of months old we have been out a few times including a week away recently. The MH is cleaned everytime we get home.

We have noticed a musty sort of smell when we go into it and we are unsure of why or where this is coming from, has anyone any ideas?

The only thing we can possibly think of is, is the smell coming up through the sink from the waste water tank? This is always emptied?

I hope someone out there has some ideas.

 

[pappajohn]

Strangely it is really noticeable if driving with window down and no plug in.

That due to a slight vacuum in the van caused by the open window, its drawing air from the grey tank up through the plughole.
The outside air passing the open window has the same effect as air passing over an aeroplanes wing.

 

[stevec]

New van, two weeks old. Smelt a bit musty this morning. Washing up scourer had been left damp in the sink.

 

[Allanm]

New van, two weeks old. Smelt a bit musty this morning. Washing up scourer had been left damp in the sink.

We left our van for a week unused once and had a faint musty smell in it when we opened it up. We too had a left a damp dishcloth in the sink! Normally, it smells of nothing when we open it up, but the last few days with the sunshine on it, it started to have that new van smell again...

 

[jezport]

Simple,
Just put your nose to the sink and shower plug holes, If the smell is worse there you have your culprit.

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[Hils and Glenns]

We had a musty smell in our van and it was getting worse by the minute. After a lot of investigating drains plug holes, loo rubbish, everything, it turned out to be our washing up sponge. Just a thought.

 

[Bobby22]

The MH is a Swift Escape.

I have a Swift escape and i have had the dreaded smell you descrbe....... I asked on here as to how to get rid of it.

In my case it was the waste water tank.......my solution is when i'm returning from a trip i make sure the tank is emptied, i the put around 5 litres of water with a cup of bleech and a capful of bio washing liquid down the between the drain pipes.
When i get home i drain the tank and leave plugs in the drains.

I'm pretty sure this will be your problem and this sorts it for you.

 

[Speve]

We used to have an Autotrail Tracker that had the musty drains smell used to flush it out with Milton and that seemed to work

 

[Trout bum]

Hi anyone changed the waste water and fresh water flexible pipes for drawing both , I'm thinking of modifying to solid pipes with a slight run on them and use the same taps on the ends , flexibility pipes keep leaking