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Posted by freedee (My Page) on Sun, Aug 2, 09 at 22:01
| I can not find the source of the occasional sewer odors that I smell in my basement, and sometimes in other areas of my home. The place I smell it most is in an area that has a waste water pipe. The plumber said that if there was any opening in that pipe, there would be wet (yuk) comming out. There is no evidence of that.
I was thinking of using one of these things, see the link below. There is another company that make a similar product. Has anyone used them? Is this a band-aide that will just cover my problem? |
Here is a link that might be useful: sewer odor solution?
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RE: Sewer odor problem, anyone use this?
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| These are installed in the vent line, which if you need one of these, you are smelling gas escaping at the roof level that doesnt explain the smell in the basement. Assuming your plumbing and vents are done correctly. You need to find the lack of seal in a drain, trap or leak that is causing the smell. |
RE: Sewer odor problem, anyone use this?
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| A friend who is in charge of maintainace at a church and school came by to look at our problem. He said the same thing that the plumber said. This shouldn't be happening. If a p trap was clogged, the plumbing fixtures would be draining slowly, that's not happening. The place that we smell the odor is not near any plumbing fixture. This odor is comming from the basement. These gasses don't normally sink down. This doesn't make sense. The man who replaced the septic field last year came by and offered to put a mushroom vent on the clean out that goes from the main sewer pipe, into the septic tank. I said I don't want those odors by my front door. Here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to pop one of those filter vent things on the clean out and see what happens. |
RE: Sewer odor problem, anyone use this?
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| OK boys and girls. Here's what happened. Your not going to believe this. The plumber came and spent a long time snooping around. He discovered that an area in the basement, where I intended to put a sink, but never got around to it. The waste pipe had a vanity pushed up to it, but it was not sealed. He sealed it up. It's not very close to the area where we smell it the most, but it's on the same level. We'll see if that make a difference. In any case, I would like to do a smoke test anyway, just to make sure there isn't something else going on. |
RE: Sewer odor problem, anyone use this?
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| From the very first reply: "You need to find the lack of seal in a drain, trap or leak that is causing the smell. " |
RE: Sewer odor problem, anyone use this?
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| YUP, thats what I was thinking too B |
RE: Sewer odor problem, anyone use this?
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| Bad news! That didn't solve my problem. We are planning to do a smoke test in mid september. It's a really big deal. We have to have people up in the attic and basement. We have to have somone on had ready to cut open sheet rock. (EEEKKK) If we could figure out the cause before then, we won't have to do it. I was thinking that the exhast fans in the bathrooms might be the problem. If the ducts inside the walls opend up during the renovation, that might provide a place for odors to escape. Somehow, I don't think that's it. Does anyone have any other ideas? Thanks soo much for your help. I really hate to open up walls at the end of this renovation project. |
RE: Sewer odor problem, anyone use this?
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| One time in the dim past I seem to remember a bad seal on a toilet causing this type of problem. Any chance one was replaced or reinstalled during the renovation? |
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