Sewer Smell/Plumber says not vent -- A/C cause?
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Sewer smell in vents only AFTER furnace has run
Comments (4)Chances are your furnace fresh air intake is drawing in the odor from the vent pipe. The reason you only smell it at the end of the heating cycle is because when the burner is running the air coming through the intake is being used for combustion. But once the burner shuts down, and the blower continues to run for 2-3 minutes, then that air is being sucked in and not burnt off, so the smell continues out through your registers. Solutions include making sure your drain traps are refreshed, filling and priming your furnace trap, and reducing the amount of time the blower is on after combustion ends....See MoreSewer Smell In Bathroom, need help!
Comments (4)I had the same problem in a house I lived in 18 years ago. I finally called a plumber. He went into the crawl space under the house and said it had a lot of standing water with sewage in it. We had to have the toilet removed and the line augered to fix a drain previously, and the line may have damaged by the augering process, causing it to subsequently leak into the crawl space every time it was flushed. We had also had a freeze the winter before, and the drain pipe may have frozen and then leaked. He couldn't tell which, just that it was split and leaking. The second part of the problem was the screening over the entrance to the crawl space. "Critters" had gone there and there was a lot of critter poop under there. That, combined with the leak, created our own sewage treatment pond, without the treatment part. He pumped out the crawl space, scattered lots of lime under the house, fixed the pipe, and rescreened the crawl space entrance. Problem solved!...See MoreSewer gas smell in the basement bathroom
Comments (5)We also just had one bathroom with a "sewer smell". In our case, when the water was first turned on in the sink, there would be a blast of the foul odor. First I thought it was the water itself, but then I decided to catch the water in a pot - no smell then. But when I poured it down the drain, up came the smell. Aha, perhap ssome bacteria, etc down the drain. So I poured a bit of bleach down the drain and that took care of it. Hope this helps solve your problem. (BTW, if that wasn't the cause, my next step was to pour some bleach down the sink & tub overflow drains.)...See Moresewer smell in whole house
Comments (3)The post clearly states the washer pumps up to the drain line, therefore I think we can rule out floor drains. That leaves me with two questions: 1. How did they connect the washer to the drain line? 2. What is the diameter of the drain line that is receiving the discharge?...See Moresimgirl
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