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Cannot solve shower sewer smell

  • 01-07-2011 9:48pm
    #1
    batman1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 605 ✭✭✭


    I have n en suite which, as you walk in, has shower on the right, sink styraight in front, and toilet to the left. Distance betwee each is about 4 feet.
    I have a problem with a smell through the shower which I cannot find.
    The manhole for the waste is just outside the room window and when I run the shower/sink/toilet, water comes out as expected.

    However, if I run the sink and let it drain, when the last of the water goes down, it gurgles but a few seconds later the shower gurgles, which sounds 'echoey' as if it's gurgling down the pipe somewhere.

    Have tried evry unblocker and have had a garden hose down the waste pipes but to no avail.

    I am now thinking the trap in the shower is playing up.

    I cannot see how but it is all I can think of.
    The shower is on the ground floor so I am wondering is replacing the trap a big job, as in shower tray coming out etc?


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  • #2
    Solnskaya
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭Solnskaya


    Unless somthing is fundamentally fecked with regards to no trap, trap installed wrong, trap partially blocked with scum etc, just get an air admittance valve and whack it onto the waste from the sink. That should knock the gurgling on the head. If the waters all heading out to the access junction outside, shouldn't be any real issue. I saw a funny one this week, awful smell in the bathroom the homeowner said, come and have a look. I checked traps, pipes, drains etc, all clear, nothing doing, all was as it should be. I had a good sniff round, and he smell was coming from the shower unit itself, so I opened it up. Inside were 3 dead and rotting mice, electrocuted when they got into the shower body. This shower was only a year old.The lady of the house(and I reckon she was right)insisted on binning the shower and installing a nice new Triton t90, which I did. Smell gone, problem solved!
    edit, and no, I didnt install the original mousey shower.


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