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sewer odors in bathroom periodically (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have a bathroom that is usually odor-free but occasionally sewer odor creeps in. When it does, it’s usually not intense but on rare occasions it’s intense enough to smell from the next room.

Any ideas? ~~I cannot connect it with any activity.~~¹ It seems to hit randomly. Traps are good. It seems to close to the toilet connection to the pipework but there are no waste water leaks in sight.

Do I need to remove the toilet and dig up the tiles? I could hire a plumber to scope the drain, but that would likely cost more me digging up the bathroom myself. Should I look into renting a drain camera? Or would it make sense to rent an infrared camera and pour hot water in the drain?

I think the kitchen drains may be upstream from the bathroom.

¹ (update) the odor seems to hit after I run hot water in the kitchen just upstream to the bathroom.

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