Smoke & Odor Testing
American Rooter’s Drain Cleaning Department provides effortless appointments and transparent pricing. We also send a friendly, experienced, and knowledgeable team member! We aim to ensure your drains are unclogged and flowing correctly, help you avoid disruption, and maximize your peace of mind.
- Pinpoints the exact source of sewer odors
- Finds cracked, broken, or disconnected drain lines behind walls, under slabs, and in crawlspaces
- Identifies faulty venting issues that cause gurgling drains, slow drainage, and recurring smells
- Detects illegal or unsafe connections
- Helps locate leaks that can attract pests and allow sewer gas into the home or building
- Provides clear next-step repair recommendations after testing
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When sewer odors won’t go away, American Rooter can trace the source instead of treating symptoms.
American Rooter, the Plumbing and Drain Experts, provides CT smoke and odor testing to locate hidden sewer gas leaks, broken venting, and compromised lines—especially when smells are coming from walls, floors, or hard-to-reach areas. We serve major towns and cities statewide, including Litchfield, Waterbury, Watertown, Hartford, New Haven, Bridgeport, Stamford, Fairfield, Danbury, Torrington, Canaan, New London, Middletown, Tolland, and Windham. Calls are handled quickly by trained customer service reps and routed to experienced technicians who test, pinpoint the issue, and recommend the proper repair.
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SMOKE AND ODOR TESTING
Where is that odor coming from?
Odor Detection and Smoke Testing
American Rooter uses smoke testing equipment and camera inspection tools to detect the causes of sewage smells inside a home or building. Sewer smells in a house or building can be embarrassing, annoying, unhealthy, and in some cases dangerous. Since sewer smells can smell like gas or propane, you should always call the fire department first. Fire departments are equipped with gas sniffers to detect dangerous levels of explosive natural gas, propane and lethal methane.
Common causes for clogged pipes:
- Dried up traps for sinks, showers, tubs, or floor drains not used often.
- Cut pipe in walls
- Open clean out caps covered by flooring
- Cracked pipes or broken pipes in walls
- Cracked or broken plumbing in floor
- Vent pipes too close to fresh air supplies
- Buried man holes
- Clogged sewer pipes
- Failed studor vents
- Abandoned drain pipes in a ceiling or floor
- Clogged plumbing vent from bees
- Clogged breather pipe from animals
- Septic needs pumping
PLUMBING
Installs & Repairs | Plumbing Leaks | Hot Water Heaters | Sinks, Tubs, Toilets | Frozen Pipes | Appliance Installs | Sump Pumps | Ejector Pumps | Remodels
DRAIN CLEANING
Drain Snaking | Water Jetting | Broken Pipes | Clogged Drains | Drain Backups | Pipe Inspections & Locating | Mark-Outs & Map-Outs
JETTERS, PUMPERS & VACS
Storm Catch Basin Cleaning | Hydro-Excavation | Lift Station Cleaning | Septic Tank Cleaning/Pumping | Grease Trap Cleaning | Pump Station Cleaning | Flooded Basements | Jet-Vacs | Trailer Jetters | Portable Jetters | 1″ to 48″ Diameter Pipes
PIPE LINING & EXCAVATION
Excavation | Construction | Septic Systems | Sewer Systems | CIPP (Cured-in-Place) | Ambient | UV | Steam & Hot Water | Inversion | Spot Repair | Pull-in-Place | Brush Coating | Pipe Bursting | Slip Lining
FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
Nausea, headaches, and dizziness are common with long exposures to sewer gases. A high level of methane, a common odorless gas in accompanied sewers, is lethal and causes many deaths each year so don’t delay if you smell sewage gas.
To find the source, American Rooter has to close off the drain system and pressure test it with smoke testing tools. When the smoke appears in an area of the building, it’s usually close to the sewer smell source.
A sewer smell is often reported strongest in certain area of a house or building like a cellar, closet, ceiling or room. Since it only smells once in a while, many customers ignore these gas smells for years before they call a professional to diagnose it.
American Rooter uses smoke testing equipment and camera inspection tools to detect the causes of sewage smells inside a home or building.
Don’t wait to call American Rooter, The Drain Experts™ to fix the sewer smell inside or outside a house or building, even if other plumbers or contractors have failed to find the problem. Countless times, American Rooter has determined the gas smell issue where other plumbers have not.