Smoke & Odor Testing
The cause of sewage smells in a home or building can be embarrassing and frustrating. Many times the cause isn’t easy to pinpoint on your own. The Drain Experts at American Rooter can identify the odor at its source and determine the solution with our Smoke & Odor Testing Services.
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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 a 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
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.