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We've lived in this mobile home for 20 plus years and never had this problem until the sewer/lines was moved from back to front. The odor started first in the shower but soon quit and moved to the laundry room. Sometimes the smell is worse like when I'm washing clothes and when the septic tank in emptied. Then after the tank is emptied it will get better for about 2 weeks and then real bad again after that. I think it's getting worse because now I believe the smell is coming off on our clothes. We own the house but not the land so we're not sure where the problem lies and who is responsible for fixing it. I just know something has to be done but not sure what? Please help with replies...Thank you!
Yes as far as I know. There are about 3 or 4. We have 2 bath rooms also. The thing that I don't understand is this problem didn't start until they re- routed everything. The sewer and lines are in the front now. Immediately after we started having the problem. We have dealt with it for about 6 years now but the smell is not going away on it's own. I read some other replies with another thread that was similar - wrapping rags around the hose, etc; but this smell is also coming from inside the washer too, I think. and I don't see how the rags would stop the inside smell.
The washer has a flexible hose that sticks into a vertical drain pipe. If the hose sticks too FAR down in the pipe, the force of the drain water can literally push the water out of the trap underneath that vertical pipe. Try either lifting the hose up some, or cutting it off so that only about 18" goes into the vertical pipe.
My guess would be when they moved the sewer the vent pipe got disconnected. A vent pipe allows the gs to escape outside and if it's absent it could cause a lot of other problems, if for example you flush the toilet it can suck the water right out of a trap allowing the gases to flow into the house.
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