Foul Odor in a Mobile Home|Help Needed

[batsears]

Hello, My name is Tommy. My family has lived in this trailer for years, and never experienced the foul odor that we do now.

Here are the variables:

- The Mobile home was vacant for around a year, and was then moved back into.

- Before moving back in, My uncle and I did some work to repair some busted pipes and plumb the house for hot water, which it was without before.

- For the first 6 months there was no odor at all.

- The odor is noticeable throughout the entire structure.

- The smell seems to intensify anytime that water is used.

- The "Stink Pipe" Or "Vent Pipe" extends upward out of the roof and is capped by a cut off bottle.

- The trailer had two bathrooms to begin with, but one was taken out when we first moved in, but we never experienced the smell until now.



. . . Today I crawled under the trailer to get an angle on what was happening. I had been advised that the stink pipe from the old bathroom might be causing the problem. When I looked at the plumbing for the one existing toilet it seemed that there was not a vent pipe for the old bathroom, or at least not one that was connecting it to the old bathroom that was removed.

In reading some of the questions posted by other users I found that the problem is most likely in a dried up pipe. Is my sense right? If it is, how should I go about fixing this problem, could it be anything more than this. Should I pour water down the pipe on the roof as other answers have suggested?

Please advise.

Thank you so much!!!!

 

[LiQuId]

dont "cap" your vent pipe with anything, and Hire a plumber... This is easyer solved by someone who does this work and problem solves.

 

[phishfood]

Hello, Tommy.

Sewer odor smells can be difficult to trace down in person, and even harder over the internet. But I will do what I can.

First, the vent pipe does more than let the bad smell out. It allows the drain pipe system to "breathe", and helps to prevent just such odor problems as you are describing. So your first step is to get the bottle off of the vent pipe.

Next, look around under there for ANY open pipes. Even if the pipe has a Ptrap on it, it needs to be capped. You mentioned that a bathroom has been removed, and that makes me wonder if the drain piping was all removed and capped off.

Let us know how this goes.