Hello everyone. I could really use some advise with this one as basement/plumbing are foreign to me. Well…I live in a very old home (built in 1908) and a few days ago my basement started to smell like rotting animals…the next day I smelt a slight fuel odour and today I’m smelling sewer odour. It’s getting so bad that I can smell it when I walk in the front door on the first floor. I’m not sure who I should be calling to help me out with this one so any advise is greatly appreciated. Thanks to anyone with a suggestion. JG
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put sme water and a cup of vegetable oil in yur floor drains..
traps maybe dried out..
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Does your house have a natural gas hookup? They include an additive that smells like rotten eggs to aid in realizing there is a leak.
Other sewer smells can occur if the drains are backing up into the basement. Or if there is a drain trap that doesn't have water in it (to block the sewer gases).
or any of several other causes.
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1908 isn't very old around here - where is here for you?
Do put some info in your profile so others can help you better.
If you really think it might be sewer, your town Public Works may come out and take a look if you call.
Do you run a dehumnidifier down there?
the oder - more like???
rotten eggs..
dead onions..
fuel oil..
natural gas...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming
WOW!!! What a Ride!
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
Edited 9/20/2006 3:02 pm by IMERC