sewer smell coming from tub???
We just had a clawfoot tub installed in a bathroom that previously had no tub. Donnato plumbing did all the work and now there is a sewer smell emanating from the overflow and drain pipe of the tub. You can actually feel the air coming out of the overflow. Can this be fixed? If so…
We just had a clawfoot tub installed in a bathroom that previously had no tub. Donnato plumbing did all the work and now there is a sewer smell emanating from the overflow and drain pipe of the tub. You can actually feel the air coming out of the overflow. Can this be fixed? If so – how?
We had our our water to our bathtub turned off for a couple of weeks-were away for about a week of that time. Yesterday (had been home for 8 days, I flushed toilet and had to use plunger and then noticed sewer gas excepting from tub overflow (hole? not sure of correct terminology).
We had loosened the pipes, going to the clawfoot tub, so my husband tightened them and turned the water back on but when we flush the toilet, which seems to be working fine now, there is still gas escaping from tub overflow. Any suggestions of how to solve problem. Should we put something down the toilet. Thanks for any suggestions.
I hope that they connected your piping to the roof vents, call them to verify, I am sure that Donato would do the right job, especially since this sounds as common practice.
If so & you still have a smell problem, maybe I can help you, I have some chemicals used to treat sewer lines, they are safe and would be poured down your drain lines and down your basement trap. We use this product regularly, we treat a senior citizens center on Court Street monthly.
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You might have a trap but did they vent it? Without a vent, water can siphon out of the trap. Try trickling a little water into the drain and see if that breeze and smell goes away. If so, you’ve probably got a venting problem.
As Tybur6 already pointed out, sewer gas can be toxic. Why try to diagnose this yourself (except for it being a weekend)? Call Donato’s emergency number and ask them to come back and check their work. This link has some info that might be useful, and some that is far afield from Brooklyn: http://www.askthebuilder.com/599_Sewer_Gas_Smell.shtml
If there is a trap… which you say there is (I don’t doubt you!) I wonder if nybk01 is on to something. Some bleach to kill something rotting in the drain.
But if you are “feeling air” then…. umm… i would have to go back to the no trap theory. You see something similar to the following coming from the bottom of the tub?
http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/how-to-replace-a-drain-trap-1.jpg
You can clearly see the plumbing from the downstairs closet?
I really wouldn’t think a licensed plumber or ANY halfway intelligent person with a pipe wrench would bypass a trap, but ya never know. The only drain that doesn’t have a trap is the toilet drain (because the trap is in the toilet itself… that’s why you stuff the hole with something or cap it when you remove a toilet.
Seems strange.
On a slightly different topic, are you happy with the tub, and if so, where did you buy it? We are interested in buying a new clawfoot tub to replace the very old dilapidated one we currently have, and aren’t sure where to begin looking.
It seems to have a trap, the closet below is opened up to the beams and we can see the plumbing…there is what looks like a trap there. Donnato is a licensed plumbing company, would they really install not to code? If there really is a trap, as there visually seems to be, what then?
I’m willing to bet that it has no trap.
Pour bleech down the drain…this happens to us once a year and the bleech always kills it.