How To Smoke Test Your Home To Locate A Sewer Smells And Leaks!

crank this up and just hey folks that fix a guy here and today we're gonna be doing a smoke test all right I am up on my friend's roof so these guys have had a bad sewer smell in their house and we've got to get that taken care of 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 vents so come along let's get to fix it so what we're doing here 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 duct tape whatever 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 we're gonna switch it we're gonna put it right here the air intake that locks into place as well and bam now we've got a blower you want to make sure that if this is empty and I also took my filter off and how else is gonna work is we're just gonna jam that right down on there so we don't need a towel or something if you had a bigger vent pipe than this inch and a half then you could do something else with it right but this right here is 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 you got this little thing right here I looks like a little thing a lipstick chapstick that doesn't pop up it's gonna burn right here I'm not gonna hold it right there I'm gonna make a little quick holder just take a little piece of tape all right 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 so my friend is gonna go down she's gonna start looking around through her house all right so I'm gonna have her record we're gonna fire this up if I can actually get it to light here we go all right we got some smoke going crank this up and just let that start running and there we go that's just going good snakes and sparklers okay so she says it is coming out of the light fixture in the bathroom you can see that the smoke is coming out right here I think we're looking at wherever this was connected right there let's uh open a wall yep yep no waterline well if you got this that's good oh yeah this bed pipe is completely disconnected right here yeah hundred percent it's not even glued we'll put some glue on that and get her put down in there and we should be rocking a roll with yeah that's it give that hell no man we got some ody for the win all right quick little smoke test all right these little smoke emitters plus this little packout super easy to take up on the roof really I loved this setup a battery powered shop back in this instance turning to a floor was absolutely the easiest way I've ever done one of these smoke tests and I guess back in the day when I did it in the military it was easy too because it was kind of like an emati you dropped it down the cast iron and plugged all the holes real quick and then just looked for smoke so I mean that was really easy as well but this was a really cool way if you're looking for a way to do this this is definitely an easy option all right we were able to locate this fairly quickly it only took a couple of holes all right we got that 90 glue back up in there and now no more sewer gas I really hope you folks are enjoying the videos try follow like click that like button we love to have you keep coming back we're just trying to help people we hope we're doing that thank you very much and we'll see you again real soon