The smell of your home plays a crucial role in keeping you happy and comfortable! It is the right kind of fragrance that transforms a simple house into a relaxing haven; better yet, the right scent can enhance your home life, enhancing your emotions, and satisfying your senses.

It is fairly easy to add perfume to the house; all you need is an essential oil diffuser, a scented candle, or a room refresher spray. It is sometimes difficult, however, to maintain a fresh-smelling home due to several factors.

What to do When Your Home Smells Bad

It would be nice if your home always smelled fresh, but this isn't always the case. Everybody would want to experience the sensation of entering a luxury hotel room and having that wonderful smell greet them. It is, however, more challenging than you might think to achieve something like this at home.

While the smell from your pet, garbage, and dirty clothes can all be easily removed, the odor from your toilet or sink is more difficult to eliminate. If you smell a funny smell whenever you are in the bathroom, kitchen, or toilet, you might have a sewer gas problem, which calls for a more complicated solution.

Causes of Sewer Gas Smell

If you smell sewage in your home, there may be a deeper problem that may lead to fires or explosions, which would require a costly fire restoration. By detecting and fixing sewer gas smells right away, sewer gas smells can be prevented.

To avoid any accidents requiring disaster restoration, try these tips for detecting  and removing sewer gas smells:

Check Your Water Traps

Most water traps are located near floor drains and laundry tubs underneath the sink. These traps trap water and block gas from entering the house. In the event of drying out, the sewer smell will have a direct path to the sink, which will lead into your home. 

The sink may be the source of the sewer gas smell. If this is the case, run the water briefly. You may want to pour a pitcher of water down the drain if the problem is an odor coming from a floor drain.

Be sure to check the clean-out plug

In order to prevent sewer gas from escaping into the house, the clean-out plug needs to be in good condition. If you notice a smell, make sure you replace the plug.

Consider having a sewer or septic line examined by an expert 

In addition to being more difficult to diagnose and harder to repair, sewer or septic lines are one of the more complex causes of sewer gas leaks. The issue should be handled by a professional.

Pungent gases can also enter your home through loose connections along the sewer line or vent pipe. Unless you're an experienced plumber, you should not attempt to fix loose connections that are inside a wall or ceiling.

Gas smell from the sewer is more than just an unpleasant odor in the home. Depending on what caused it, the smell could indicate a serious problem that could lead to a fire! In order to prevent an unfortunate situation where you have to call for fire damage recovery, make sure that the problem is resolved as soon as possible.

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