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Find The Bad Sewer Smell In Your House Fast! #diy #plumbing #plumbingadvice #milwaukee

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This project outlines the process of locating and repairing a leaking plumbing vent pipe within a home's ceiling. The method involves conducting a smoke test using a shop vac converted into a blower and smoke emitters to pressurize the vent system. Once the leak is identified by smoke appearing inside the house, the drywall is cut to access the pipe. The repair is completed by re-seating and cementing the disconnected ABS pipe joint.

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Frank this up. All right, I am up on my friend's roof. These guys have had a bad sewer smell in their house. So I've got my little pack out, shop back here. We're gonna turn this into a blower, and we're gonna blow some smoke down the fence. We're gonna block off three vents, and we're gonna blow our smoke down another one. We're using gorilla tape today. You can use any kind of tape, I think. Here where the hose connects to this, a little lock and unlock. Just slide that over to the right, and that's gonna pop out here, the air intake. That locks into place as well. And bam, now we've got a blower. It's actually just gonna set up in there like that. Right here, this intake is gonna start sucking air in, and we are going to be using these smoke emitters. Looks like a little thing, a lipstick. It's gonna burn right here. And now I can hold that. It's not gonna burn me, and when I'm done with it, I can actually just throw it off the house. Here we go. Frank, this all is going good. Snakes and sparklers. She says it is coming out of the light fixture in the bathroom. Oh yeah, this bed pipe is completely disconnected. Right here. Are you serious? Yeah, 100%, it's not even glued. We'll put some glue on that and get her put down in there, and we should be rocking and rolling. Get that hell down there. We got some ody for the wind.

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