Our laundry room sink has this bizarre attachment to to the back of the drain line clean out. It would almost seem like it was or is supposed to be a vent. Recently it’s started to give off a foul sewer smell when our washing machine rinses....
Thanks for taking a look and the advice. I just went through our old demo pics and noticed the small pipe runs up and joins the primary vent stack. Now I can plug it and be done with that stench.
Think an expansion plug or should I try to chop the pipe and cap it?
I’m open to the ghetto solution for the time being while I cap it. I replied to another comment with a pic of the main vent stack so it looks like I’ll be able to cap it. Just have to figure out the best way to do that.
1950s house with block foundation. I’ve patched these areas with hydraulic cement. That didn’t work so I stripped and cleaned the areas thoroughly then repatched. It improved but still getting lots of leaking where the foundation and floor meet or just above....
That’s a whole lot of digging! What’s strange is that the corner where I ripped the wood sits under our entry stairs, which has a 3’ overhang and is almost always dry. The other site sits under concrete so my hands are tied to the interior for now.
I’ve seen that drain system and I think that might be the least expensive way to deal with it. I’ve heard mixed reviews but generally it seems to work. Our layout makes it tough to run it along the perimeter to the sump pump but it’s still more accessible than digging the exterior or drain tiles.
Leave some degrees for the rest of us ( sopuli.xyz )
Smelly plumbing mystery - what is this? (extra pics in comments)
Our laundry room sink has this bizarre attachment to to the back of the drain line clean out. It would almost seem like it was or is supposed to be a vent. Recently it’s started to give off a foul sewer smell when our washing machine rinses....
Leaky foundation help (pics in body) ( lemmy.world )
1950s house with block foundation. I’ve patched these areas with hydraulic cement. That didn’t work so I stripped and cleaned the areas thoroughly then repatched. It improved but still getting lots of leaking where the foundation and floor meet or just above....
Just some fun size comparisons ( startrek.website )
Not sure how accurate it is but given the figures I vaguely recall, this feels pretty accurate....
Update: Rot behind soffit ( i.imgur.com )
I made a post previously on having rot behind a soffit and many of you gave me great advice on how to proceed in fixing it the right way....
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This is a really big deal; it’s been a very long time since we saw a President explicitly siding with labor over capital in a dispute like this.
Microsoft leaks 38TB of private data via unsecured Azure storage ( www.bleepingcomputer.com )
xkcd #2810: How to Coil a Cable ( xkcd.com )
Can I remove this pipe coming out of my lawn? ( lemmy.world )
We moved in to our house a couple years ago and were not told too much about a pipe that sticks out of our backyard....
Finally got a backdrop for my replicas ( i.imgur.com )