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Negative.Does your septic tank have a filter?
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Negative.Does your septic tank have a filter?
Check the floor drain for your furnace condensation. It should have a trickle feed to keep water in the trap.Depending on how tight your house is, maybe due to the cold weather, your furnace is working harder and turns on more often. It could possibly be pulling air through your vents/traps even though they have water in them.
Do you have a floor drain somewhere you haven't' looked? Like under a boiler, or water heater?
I have also had smells, and it was always a floor drain that dried out.
I’d also be suspicious about the toilet flange/wax ring, maybe there is some cold expansion/contraction gap allowing gasses to burp.Finally a plumber determined that it was a cracked toilet flange that was allowing gaseous emissions without allowing liquid leakage. New flange and reseat the toilet stool and we’ve been fine ever since.
We have a pond rather than a leech field. A pump lifts the tank outflow up to the pond.I’d also be suspicious about the toilet flange/wax ring, maybe there is some cold expansion/contraction gap allowing gasses to burp.
On a side note, in still, cold weather I often get a waft of sewer smell in my yard, that I believe is caused by sinking air pulling fumes from roof vents downward. I never notice that in the summer.
Alright guys, you’re a group of smart guys so help me out with where to start/ continue my search for why I have a sewer smell in my house.
Every time it gets cold out(today is about -5) I get a sewer smell in My house. My roof vents are not froze over and my traps all have water in them. I’m on a septic system. It started happening about 3 years ago when I finished my basement and installed a full bathroom. The basic plumbing/drains for the basement bathroom had been there for 10 years prior as it was installed in the concrete when the house was built. Obviously the venting for the bathroom was plumbed in at the time of finishing the basement. I’ve read some about the cold air basically creating a down draft and not letting the warm gases escape out the stacks, settling back down the stacks instead. I never have this problem until it gets cold.
Give me your ideas and solutions.
When I read sewer smell, this was the first thing that popped in my head , I know , I’m not much help
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