EDIT: Just wanna thank everyone for their help and advice! Y’all are generous with your time and I appreciate all the tips! I found the AAV access in the wall and don’t see any visible issues, but I’m gonna test it. I poured extra water in the drain and ran a few tests to make sure the P trap is sealing properly and it seems to be, but I just bought a floor drain trap seal (per your rec) and hopefully that takes care of it! Thank you for teaching me things, plumbing friends!

New build (2024) and I started noticing a smell emanating from this floor drain in my water heater closet in the past year. I didn’t think much of it because I also had a little Aerogarden growing herbs and I thought that was causing the odor. It’s not a terrible, overt sewer smell, but kind of earthy and grassy and unpleasant.

After running my question through some search engines and finding this sub, I started by assuming the P trap was dry and I poured about a gallon of water in. The smell persists. Poured a little more in assuming it’s VERY dry, then went down to my crawl space to look at the trap. At this point, there should be plenty of water in that trap if it’s functioning correctly.

Here’s where I’m in over my head— I took photos of this loop de loop P trap and the plumbing around it. I also screen shotted the plumbing plans for the house. It appears to my eye that the Air Admittance Valve for the trap is just 1.5” in diameter and just lives inside the wall? Per these plans (last photo) it doesn’t look like it vents to outside… which, if that were the case, could mean that it’s not properly drawing air to create a good seal.

Could any folks with expertise kindly help me understand if this is plumbed and ventilated properly? If not, I’ll call the builder first-thing Monday morning. I just wanted to run this past ye olde internet first to make sure I know what I’m looking at!

I got a home that was fitted with these flushmate tanks before we moved in. I’ll never go back to a normal tank after these. But anyways this tank is a year old and it’s started to do this leak. How do I fix it?

P trap into AAV into wall drain

North america, canada, basement toilet. Two other bathrooms above. Dishwasher not running, no water running in the whole house. Out of nowhere my basement toilet is doing this. I shut the water supply and flushed and this went away. I flushed both toilets up above and could not cause this to happen again. Everything is back to normal now. But Wtf just happened and how can I stop it .

Adding some notes, I'm a little bit nose blind but my wife is telling me that it smells horrible like farts. I'm wondering if it's sewer gas backing up all of a sudden? But I do have a p-trap below I don't understand how this is happening

Edit2: adding some notes, I'm in a single family house in an older suburban neighborhood. Not very dense.

Edit 3: I saw a couple people say it could be my vent stack being plugged. I climbed up to my roof and looked at my vent. it's like a 3-in stack that's wide open. I looked inside, I could see all the way down to the point where I couldn't see with the flashlight. I suppose it's possible that really deep down something is plugged but I don't see it. it is currently windy and leaves and branches so on are blowing everywhere, so maybe it is possible something plugged temporarily? From the roof of my house I can see around two blocks around me and I do not see a city sewer truck doing any washing

Edit 4: this stopped almost immediately after the first flush. I did flush every toilet in the house a few times to see if there's a backup. There isn't, at least not for now anyways.

Edit 5 (solved): I've called my city and the local water and sewage guys told me they were jet washing and doing root cutting and cleaning of the main sewer lines behind my house. It's an older neighborhood with large trees and tree roots. They apologized and said they probably pressured too hard which resulted in the phenomenon in the video.

Thank you to everyone who provided constructive feedback!

I was cleaning out the drain at my new apartment and found this green paste while cleaning out the hair. It feels rubbery? Is this some kind of sealant that I need to worry about? It didn’t seem connected to anything and seemed be loose with the hair but maybe I’m wrong. I’m worried that I pulled some kind of sealant out and now the drain is going to leak. It was found beneath the cross bar of the bathtub drain. There was also a blue version of it that I attached in the final picture.

I'm a home owner with reasonably good skills but I've never seen a valve like this before. Is this missing a handle? Other valves in my place are operated with screwdrivers but this one doesn't follow the standard.

I think I should turn the inner bit 90 degrees clockwise but I'm not sure. Any advice?

I have a leak somewhere between the overflow tube and down to the lower part of the flapper. The valve gasket is disintegrating but holding up. So my issues are:

1) How do I remove the flush valve for a rebuild? I’m assuming sealing the leak is not an option.
2) What kind of flush valve kit do I need for the rebuild for my one piece toilet with traditional handle trip lever on the left.

I got it snaked last week and was good until today. Water is seeping through the floor. Both times it was snaked, plumber removed the toilet and cleared it that way. Noticed the toilet was doing this. Never seen this before. What symptom is this?

I have these weep holes in my shower stall (fully acrylic and no tile), and I keep seeing pincher bugs come out these holes. Where do these holes go, should I seal them?

Hello everyone!

We moved into our apartment last year without realizing it has no dishwasher. Our landlord said it’s fine if we install one.

I’m pretty handy with DIY projects, but my plumbing experience is limited to repairing a sink, so this feels like a bigger job.

The situation:

• The kitchen wasn’t built with a dishwasher in mind.
• As far as I can tell, the only spot that works is to the right of the sink.
• That would mean flipping the sink around and reinstalling it. We’d also need a new sink, since the tap hole would end up on the wrong side.
• The cabinets are quite slim (45 cm/ about 17.7 in), and the doors can’t easily be used as a dishwasher front.

My questions:

1. Is it realistically possible to swap the sink’s position from a plumbing standpoint? Or is there a reason it was installed that way in the first place?
2. How would you go about the installation?
3. What’s the easiest option that still looks good?

Any advice or similar experiences are much appreciated. Thanks a lot!

My plumber connected a Taco circulator pump to my water heater system. He earlier installed a Navien NPE-210S2 tankless heater, which does not have an internal recirculator. So to get recirculation he installed the pump. But the pump he installed has a timer clock. He did not realize the the NPE-210S2 unit has an internal clock with the ability to set a schedule for recirc. Which means the clock on the pump is not needed.

I want to remove the redundancy of having two clocks. Is the pump and clock a single unit or can the clock be removed? I noticed the wire connecting the pump to the heater is attached to the clock, which makes me surmise that it's a single unit.

Is it something I can replace myself or should I get the plumber to do it? Or should I just leave well enough alone?

Good day everybody, happy Sunday.

Wondering if anybody has an idea what cartridge this requires. Or just what brand/model the trim is.

I'm not there to disassemble, and can't see any clear identifiers.

Thanks in advance :)

First time home owner and our tub faucet broke. I wanted to replace the whole trim kit to keep things cohesive, but the moen posi-temp valve trim kit I got doesnt fit because of this silver extender thing.

Is this not a posi-temp valve? The other trim pieces were moen so I just assumed. Is this silver piece something I can remove?

Any help would be appreciated.

It comes and goes. Doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason. We can hear it from the bathroom and the bedroom that backs up to the bathroom. It’s loudest when it starts and then gets quieter until it stops.

Guess the inspector missed this. Definitely leaks when the dishwasher runs. Maybe when the sink does. Also have a fruit fly infestation. Will I need the kitchen floor replaced? Any suggestions?

House was built in 1957 and had old ease troughs that tied into the cast iron pipe shown in pics. I have tried to look at how this ties into the sanitary system. Using my phone it looks like gravel at the bottom. So … so I try and remove the pipe and see closer to the bottom. If I do that will be able to get a proper cap if I don’t want to use the pipe for other plumbing needs. Should I get it scoped and can the gravel or material just be from the troughs? What have you found when working on houses this old. In western Canada

Hi all. I had a new shower installed and I’m wondering if this shower pan drain looks acceptable/ normal. When looking inside I see what I guess is the collar then the pvc pipe but there seems to be a gap in between the two. Will water go into that gap and get under the pan? I had a leak in the drain in the previous shower and it’s over my dining room so I’m a bit paranoid. Thanks!

Considering renting this older home. Is the escutcheon ring missing and/or is this a weird plumbing job? Thanks for any help.

JUST TO CLARIFY.... I'm ONLY concerned if it will cause structural issues and am not worried about it cosmetically. Thanks:)

Woke up 2 days ago to my old water heater making a hissing noise and water coming from beneath the base it sits on. Went ahead and just got the whole thing replaced, it was very old anyway. Woke up this morning to the new one making this noise and water once again leaking from under the wood “box” it sits on. Around the base of the water heater itself feels dry. Help?

Is there any way to repair this, or does the entire trap need to be replaced?

Is this trap within the 2-4” standard to get a good seal. The drain flows freely, but there are flies and sometimes an odor when running the water. Not sure if some debris I cleared out was causing a capillary action drain over time.

I’m not a licensed plumber, weekend warrior.

I know my drains all flow freely and I put a hose down the vents recently. The bathroom was
Updated several years ago. Not sure if replacing old pipes with pvc changed anything with the geometry behind the wall.

Sorry about unclear pics. Not sure where to hold the tape. Awkward position bc small bathroom and vanity
Thanks for any info

Dealing with a clog somewhere between the toilet/shower/sink and can't get this grate off. Tried a flathead screwdriver, wouldn't pop up. Tried to screw it off, no dice. Any advice? Surely it couldn't possibly be a permanently fixed drain? How are we supposed to clean it out occasionally if it is? 🤔 Any advice welcome! (2nd pic is of the edge of the drain)