My laundry room smells like a sewer!!!

Diamond Member Joined: Apr 27 2006 Age: 30 Posts: 2528

I have a little room where the washer, dryer and big sink is. I have a shelf for all cleaning stuff and 3 laundry baskets where we put dirty clothes. I also hang dry clothes in there. Usually the room has a faint smell of detergent not bad at all.
The past few days though it stinks!!!! I have nothing wet there now, dirty laundry doesntsmell that terrible, the garbage is empty so what can this be?
Oh and the room was cleaned recently. How can I find source of the smell?

Gold Member Joined: Feb 25 2009 Posts: 1313

Maybe a pipe leaked behind a machine? Or maybe something got stuck there?

Posted: Tue, Jul 06 2010, 11:09 am Post subject:

Try pouring some bleach down the drain of the slop sink. It's probably coming from there.
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Executive Member Joined: Jun 28 2010 Posts: 335

Do you have the kind with the door in the front? They sometimes get moldy around the door - water gets stuck under the rubber thing that seals the door. It helps to leave the door open a little after you're done with laundry for the night.

Posted: Wed, Jul 07 2010, 1:39 pm Post subject:

We once had some critter die in the walls. Couldn't get to it without knocking down the walls, so we sealed off the room and thanked Hashem it was winter at least, and it took a good few weeks for the stench to fade.
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Gold Member Joined: Jun 01 2009 Posts: 2307

Been there, in my case it was a blocked drain. Does it smell when the washing machine is on?

can it be the main sewer line is backed up? sometimes, my basement bathroom starts smelling really badly like u describe, even though everything is flushing but it's really bc of the main sewer, whatever that is, and I call a sewer guy and he snakes the line and then all is good for a while...
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Executive Member Joined: May 26 2009 Posts: 306

in our basement bathroom we got that smell -- it turns out the drainage pipe was cracked and water was seeping through and pooling. Our plumber was able to instal a new pipe without opening up our whole floor. BUt it could be a pipe from the slop sink. Try sniffing around to see if you can pinpoint the area.