Hey guys we're gon na get to the video in just a second before you do anything. Please click that subscribe button, so you can be informed with all the videos we put out. Thank you: hey guys, Joshua Griffin here serving the middle Peninsula and the Northern Neck for all your heating and air, and plumbing needs wanted to do a quick, video, a little tip that we don't run into a whole lot. But if it's something you're experiencing you, probably if you found this video, maybe you searched for this problem and that is: are you receiving some sort of odor from your plumbing okay? So if you have a sink or tub something that's putting off some sort of an odor and just had a few tips to throw out there before you, you know before you call a plumber and all of that now, let me say before I go any further: If you're experiencing an odor issue with a garbage disposal, you will want to watch the video we did on garbage disposals, so garbage shows are a different animal.

Entirely people put things down them. Sometimes maybe they even should not, and I did a whole video on how to clean it, how to make it smell better. All that good stuff and I'm gon na put a link to that video right now, and so you know, click that if you, if you have a garbage disposal and that's what you're having the issue with but talking about, say like a tub or a sink. Something like that just about all plumbing fixtures, including a toilet, have what's called a p-trap or some sort of variation of a trap, and essentially all the trap is, is it's a place in the plumbing back? That goes uphill for just a moment.

So you know you have your pipe coming down and then it goes back up for just a moment and then in that, where that little loop there will be a little bit of water sitting in that pipe or you know the toilet or whatever. That's why your toilet holds a you know, there's always a little bit of water in the bottom of the bowl. That's the side of the p-trap, if you will, and so the trick is, if you're watching this video, if you, if you search this and you found us your sinks, putting off an odor, you want to just run the water for a moment. Okay, so if that p-trap, if it's no longer got water in it, methane gas can come back up and that's what you're smelling coming out of your sink so just running the water for a moment fill up that p-trap of water and that should stop it now.

One thing I will say: if you have like a bat-like, for example, we have a bathroom, that's in. We have a guest bedroom and they're in the bathrooms attached to that it only gets used if someone's staying with us. You know if you have some sort of a bathroom like that, maybe you have a bathroom say in your garage and it just it doesn't get it used as much or whatever. If you have some sort of a bathroom like that, you know those you, I would say every couple weeks every month, just turn on the faucet for a second just enough to fill that p-trap back up with water and that should take care of your issue.

The water water will evaporate in a p-trap. It takes a long time, but it will happen. I've seen it happen, especially in warmer climates, ok, the other thing I was going to say is: if you are experiencing this issue periodically often ok. I actually personally had this happen to me.

When we bought our house, we had a bathtub, but it just every couple days. It would smell bad and you know I would go in there and I'd run the water again and it was you know it would stop the issue, but it just seemed like every couple days. It would happen again and so what I found was we actually had a venting issue in our house. I actually found a there was a under the sink Studer event that had been that failed, and so we, you know replace that, and everything was fine, and so what's happening is if again, if you're you're having that issue, what might be happening is imagine you're drinking A coke, so you got your straw you're drinking the coke.

You cover the top of the strolling. You lift the straw up out of the coke, how the coke stays in that straw right, Plumbing's, the same way. You know if there's something covering the top. You know of that straw, if it's not being able to vent properly, then every time you flush or some sort of use, your plumbing in some way shape or form it can actually the this suction the you know, because it's got negative pressure now with with no Venting it'll actually pull those p-traps drive, and so I've seen that before.

So. If, if neither one of these things fix your issue, you may have a venting issue, but you could also have a bigger issue. Maybe a natural leak in your plumbing your drain somewhere. Maybe even under under that bathroom or something like that um, so you're gon na want to get a pro in there to get that resolved.

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