Floor Drain Smells Like Sewer. You have a water trap under a floor drain laundry tub or wash basin that has dried out from lack of use. Smells can waft into a room if a drain pipes water trap has gone dry and solving the problem is as easy as running a little water.
Most of the time when you can smell a sewer or sulfur smell coming from the floor drain in your laundry room it is because the trap underground has dried up. If the trap dries out smells will creep up into the basement and eventually into the rest of this house. Indeed we have had cases of under-floor drain lines that were leaky sending sewage odors into the building.
This tool directs sewage water to flow down into the sewage pipe rather than collecting it inside of the drain itself.
Once youve identified where the odor is coming. Fortunately one of the most common causes of sewer odors in drains is also the easiest to fix. Up to 7 cash back Description. Another common source of sewage smell in your floor drain may come from the cleanout plug.
