Sink problem
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I'm going to have a big party with balloons, hats and those annoying things that sound like ill geese and give out a prize to the 100th person to make that joke.
They have made me an appointment for Friday morning. No idea what for, I was infuriated by that point but I do hope it works. I still fail to see how letting a tennant sit in the smell of sewage for 2 weeks is 'not an emergency'.
If it wasn't already the cheapest (new development) place in town I'd be out of here.
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Its not an emergency.
Keep the plug in the sink and block the overflow.
If you're getting a smell from a kitchen sink then either the water in the trap (u bend) is draining away and letting the smell in or it's emanating before the water trap aka a washing machine or dish washer.
Keep the plug in the sink and block the overflow.
If you're getting a smell from a kitchen sink then either the water in the trap (u bend) is draining away and letting the smell in or it's emanating before the water trap aka a washing machine or dish washer.
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That's the thing, I've since stuck my head in the sink and it's not coming up through that. The overflow isn't connected to anything, it's just a hole to the cupboard beneath. Found that out to my cost when I first moved in. The dishwasher and sink have both had a ton of soda crystals through them, u-bends and traps have been checked.
It admittedly seems better after all the soda crystals etc but I won't know until I get home later. I have to keep the window shut because the rain got in and tripped my electric once.
Well, i vote dead rat somewhere then.
I'd still remove the waste hoses from the washing machine and dishwasher and soak them in boiling water and strong bleach solution in the bath for an hour or two.
whilst thats being done i'd remove the plinths from the kitchen units and trying to find this smell.
I'd still remove the waste hoses from the washing machine and dishwasher and soak them in boiling water and strong bleach solution in the bath for an hour or two.
whilst thats being done i'd remove the plinths from the kitchen units and trying to find this smell.
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This was my first thought too and I did all that. Took the backs of the cupboards off, the bottoms, pulled all appliances out, checked all pipes. There's nothing to find here.
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It's now the only plausible theory.
I had a rotten smell one spring when I moved into my home 20 years ago and it was the chimney (not used) but not bricked up only some hardboard over it behind my kitchen oven, a seagull chick fell out next and died and was rotten away.
When my father pulled out the oven and the hardboard it was the worst smell I have every smelled, maggots everywhere.
It was latter bricked up properly and the chimney pot vented above (nothing can get down it now but has airflow to stop dampness) when I got a new kitchen fitted later.
When my father pulled out the oven and the hardboard it was the worst smell I have every smelled, maggots everywhere.
It was latter bricked up properly and the chimney pot vented above (nothing can get down it now but has airflow to stop dampness) when I got a new kitchen fitted later.
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I don't remember, it may have been early february.
The smell appears to have gone for now. My dad had the back of the washing machine off tuesday night and it smelled even worse. He put it all back together yesterday and the smell seems to have gone, he says he didn't clean the filter because he couldn't get to it so not sure what happened.
He is still wearing your moms panties (they both got dressed in the dark in a hurry when your dad came home early.
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He is still wearing your moms panties (they both got dressed in the dark in a hurry when your dad came home early.
And damn it do they stink.
Srsly I have no idea what happened to this smell, we didn't do anything that managed to get rid of it unless it takes the soda crystals a few days to work or something.
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Yeah it seems to have done, I cleaned the washing machine spotless and tightened everything up and that seems to have done it. Nice to sit in a room that doesn't smell like arse.
Moving the washing machine may have dislodge some poop in the waste pipe that was stinking? It's a common issue and is often caused by the pipe being crushed or forced into a bad angle thus not allowing the filth from your cloths through the pipe in its entirety.