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Recently bought a house and sewer smell is coming out of floor drain. Any cheap fix you guys can recommend?
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Try flushing every drain point, sinks, showers, Laundry, toilets, outside, with a heap of water, and chemicals to if it will make you feel better, Drano worked for me in my old place.
I think there's no P trap installed so no point of pouring in water and chemical.
Unless someone has built it super dodgy there most certainly would be one, if not near the inlet of the drain then certainly before the sewer big old cast iron thing, probably underground, if you live in town. if you're brought an old farm house that old mate built himself then lord only knows
I am sure the previous owner got some dodgy plumber to save some money. He was an Italian guy and was living an awful life in that house. None of the windows worked , shitty paint etc. I am trying to fix all one by one. Also, I live in the city , its a duplex.
There would still be one in the ground, would of been put in probably when the main sewer line was put in, like 100 years ago depending on where you live, anyway waters cheap so I'd say give it a ago, at worst it's not gonna fix it.
I have tried water, bleach, soapy water , detergent etc but the smell is still there. During summers it gets worst. Its weird that the smell comes from just this one drain. Fuck the plumber who did it. Most of these TAFE guys with mullet are fucking idiots. I am planning to cut open the drain and may be pour in plumbers putty.
Yer it's wired that it's only one drain, There could be a jagged edge somewhere down the pipe that could have caught a mass of something that's slowly rotting away, you can get hand cranked pipe snake there a few metres long, probably 30bucks, might get you outta trouble,
I am sure the smell is from the sewer and not something rotting. I have noticed when its windy outside that when I notice the smell so definitely sewer. How can I check if theres a P trap in there ? I tried using a torch but can't really see properly. Should I just cut open the floor drain?
Is there an outlet vent outside? Check to see that it's not blocked by something, insect nest, or spider web or something, that's the only place I can think of that the wind cause possibly get in. If you can get under the house you can see what is going on, maybe a inspection camera? You'd feel it with a drain snake.