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

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What happens here

Insert the shop vac's hose into the designated open vent pipe on the roof, ensuring a snug fit. The video shows the hose fitting perfectly into a 1.5-inch vent without needing additional sealing. Light the prepared smoke emitter and place it into the air intake opening of the shop vac. Turn the shop vac on to its blower setting. The blower will draw air through the intake, carrying the smoke from the emitter into the vent system, pressurizing it and forcing smoke out of any leaks.

Goal: Introduce smoke into the sewer vent system to make leaks visible.

Tools and materials

  • Milwaukee Packout Shop Vac — Blowing smoke into the vent system
  • Smoke Emitter — Generating smoke

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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

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