I have an issue in my basement where I smell a faint odor of sewage. I found it to be coming from my sewer caps. The caps are so rusted that the they can’t be threaded back on. I was told to get some 4″ lead caps and bang them into place. My question is whether or not this is a good idea and if so, where do I get them and what are they called?<\/p>\n
Additionally, I was told to replace the cover of the whole area (it’s sunk into the ground about 12 inches with a lip to hold the cover) with something other than the piece of plywood that is there currently with something sturdier like a metal hatch of sorts. Any ideas of what should be used for this and where to go get it?<\/p>\n
Thanks for your help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I have an issue in my basement where I smell a faint odor of sewage. I found it to be coming from my sewer caps. The caps are so rusted that the they can’t be threaded back on. I was told to get some 4″ lead caps and bang them into place. My question is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[198],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-18475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plumbing"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2008\/01\/sewer-caps\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Sewer Caps","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2008\/01\/sewer-caps\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2008\/01\/sewer-caps\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Plumbing","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"pwhite"}],"creator":["pwhite"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2008-01-07T15:33:41Z","datePublished":"2008-01-07T15:33:41Z","dateModified":"2008-07-28T16:27:48Z"},"rendered":"