Kitchen smells

[tiggerblue10]

I have a problem with my kitchen sink. For some reason during the summer it stinks. Its a smell I can't really describe. Sometimes my plates and cutlery smell of it after I wash them even with lots of Fairy liquid. I've tried cleaning it with bleach, Cif, Zoflora, Soda Crystals etc. Not all at the same time though.

What else can I do? Please help, it's driving me mad.

[Ethel]

If it makes your washing up smell it's not the drain, which was my first thought.

Do you dry your washing up straight away or leave it to drain?

[tiggerblue10]

Most of the time I leave it to dry but recently I've been washing them twice and drying them.

It is definitely not a drain smell. Bleach usually gets rid of drain smells so I can deal with that. This is smell that you can sometimes get when you're near a fishing harbour. I know it sounds crazy but that's what its like. I've tried using vinegar but that doesn't work as the smell is very strong.

[bizzylizzy]

It's not chlorine is it. I know our local water authority flush the pipes late in the evening and seem to inject shedloads of chlorine into the water supply. If you fill a glass with water just before you go to bed at night around here, the smell of chlorine is v strong.

[tiggerblue10]

It's definitely not chlorine. I know that smell well and I can only drink bottled water because of it. I have to admit I have got a strong sense of smell. In fact I probably have OCD when it comes to smells. I can smell bleach/chlorine a mile off.

The only other time I can smell this smell is on cutlery and plates that have had egg on them and they haven't been washed properly afterwards if that makes sense!

[tiggerblue10]

Thank you all.

[RATTER15]

Check under and behind you sink, washing machine etc for leaks.

[RATTER15]

Another thing!! You do have a waste trap under your sink don't you? if that has been dispensed with during some sort of bodged DIY project that will cause your sink to stink!!!!!!!