{"id":18778,"date":"2021-02-16T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T17:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marathoncoach.com\/?p=18778"},"modified":"2024-03-27T13:51:28","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T21:51:28","slug":"marathon-how-to-keep-bad-smells-at-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marathoncoach.com\/2021\/02\/16\/marathon-how-to-keep-bad-smells-at-bay\/","title":{"rendered":"Marathon How to: Keep Bad Smells at Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18632\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marathoncoach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/How_To_02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marathoncoach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/How_To_02.jpg 1800w, https:\/\/www.marathoncoach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/How_To_02-300x102.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Even when not in use, maintaining your Marathon is important. If it\u2019s been a while since you\u2019ve taken a road trip, the water in your P-traps \u2013 the U-shaped pipes under your sinks \u2013 can evaporate. It\u2019s not fun being greeted by unpleasant smells after being away from your coach for a while. Instead of trying to mask that stench with air freshener after the fact, you can prevent those bad smells from ever happening.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to prevent odors from a dry P-trap:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Once per month, turn on the faucet.<\/li>\n<li>Pour water into your sink.<\/li>\n<li>Make sure the P-trap still has a good seal in it.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Watch Marathon Coach Sales\/Service Support Technician Dave Bash demonstrate how to keep a good seal in your P-traps.<\/p>\n<div class=\"arve\" data-mode=\"normal\" data-oembed=\"1\" data-provider=\"youtube\" id=\"arve-youtube-kaij7yeuxdu662d6bed7365b282714451\" style=\"max-width:640px;\">\n<span class=\"arve-inner\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"arve-embed arve-embed--has-aspect-ratio\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"arve-ar\" style=\"padding-top:56.250000%\"><\/span><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen class=\"arve-iframe fitvidsignore\" data-arve=\"arve-youtube-kaij7yeuxdu662d6bed7365b282714451\" data-src-no-ap=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/kaIJ7yEUxDU?feature=oembed&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;autohide=1&amp;playsinline=0&amp;autoplay=0\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-presentation allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/kaIJ7yEUxDU?feature=oembed&#038;iv_load_policy=3&#038;modestbranding=1&#038;rel=0&#038;autohide=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autoplay=0\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18632\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marathoncoach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/How_To_02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marathoncoach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/How_To_02.jpg 1800w, https:\/\/www.marathoncoach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/How_To_02-300x102.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Even when not in use, maintaining your Marathon is important. If it\u2019s been a while since you\u2019ve taken a road trip, the water in your P-traps \u2013 the U-shaped pipes under your sinks \u2013 can evaporate. It\u2019s not fun being greeted by unpleasant smells after being\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":18781,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[72,76],"tags":[2056,2557,432,33,2580,1729,1858,1859,487,126,2790,2661,1278,277,386,19,265,20,21,2777,2248,156,2556,238,1809,2789,2788,23,423,1515,193,2778,1750,455,1537,1805,476,2660,354,2642,1541,813,1727,1055],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marathoncoach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marathoncoach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marathoncoach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marathoncoach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marathoncoach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18778"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.marathoncoach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18780,"href":"https:\/\/www.marathoncoach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18778\/revisions\/18780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marathoncoach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marathoncoach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marathoncoach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marathoncoach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}