Nobody wants to have unpleasant smells wafting through their home. If you keep a clean house, but then start to notice foul odors coming from the drains, you’ll want to have the problem taken care of immediately. This is a smart idea, since not only will this eliminate the smells, it can also prevent huge issues from developing within your home\u2019s drainage system or the sewer lines.<\/p>\n
There are a number of potential causes for bad-smelling drains. Below are the 3 most common, in order of severity of the underlying trouble.<\/p>\n
The p-trap is the professional plumbing term for the curved pipe under a drain. The purpose of this curve shape is to trap an amount of water that serves to block sewage gas from drifting up the pipe and out the drain. If there’s a sink in your house that doesn’t receive frequent use (such as a laundry room sink, or the bathroom attached to a guest room), the water in the p-trap might evaporate, leaving no barrier to the sewer gas. Try running water down the drain for a minute to restore the p-trap. This may stop the bad odors.<\/p>\n
This is a common issue for kitchen drains, which handle large amounts of food waste. A build-up of fat, oil, grease, and other organic waste inside drainpipes can start to smell awful when it rots. To solve this, call our plumbers for thorough drain cleaning.<\/p>\n
Is more than one drain in your house sending out terrible odors? Then it’s likely that the trouble lies deeper down in your plumbing system, possibly in the sewer line. A blocked sewer line will start to push sewer gas back up through the drains. The sewer line could also be broken. Repairing a sewer line is a large task, but you need to have professional plumbers do it as soon as possible, since the consequences for your plumbing and your entire house are substantial.<\/p>\n
Ken Neyer Plumbing, Inc. offers drain cleaning<\/a> and sewer lines services<\/a> in Cincinnati, OH and the surrounding areas. We’re available 24 hours a day for emergencies.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nobody wants to have unpleasant smells wafting through their home. If you keep a clean house, but then start to notice foul odors coming from the drains, you’ll want to have the problem taken care of immediately. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[81],"tags":[87,46],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neyerplumbing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neyerplumbing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neyerplumbing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neyerplumbing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neyerplumbing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.neyerplumbing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":659,"href":"https:\/\/www.neyerplumbing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions\/659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neyerplumbing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neyerplumbing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neyerplumbing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}