A$49.95 Any Sewer or Drain » smell http://a4995.com/blogs "If you didn't call us...you paid too much" Mon, 27 Jul 2009 03:07:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Water coming out of the base of the toilet! http://a4995.com/blogs/2009/02/10/water-coming-out-of-the-base-of-the-toilet/ http://a4995.com/blogs/2009/02/10/water-coming-out-of-the-base-of-the-toilet/#comments Tue, 10 Feb 2009 08:13:57 +0000 admin http://a4995.com/blogs/?p=202 After flushing a toilet bowl , if you experience water coming out in the form of bubbles or drops  from the base of the toilet, you need to remove the toilet and replace the wax gasket under your toilet bowl. All toilet bowls sit on top of a wax gasket. The wax gasket prevents the flushed water from leaking out of the toilet bowl. To change the wax gasket all you have to do is

  1. Remove the toilet bowl
  2. Take out the old wax gasket
  3. Place the old gasket under the toilet bowl
  4. Reset the toilet bowl

Replacing your gasket should solve your problem of water leaking from the base of the toiletafter you flush it. keep in mind that even if your toilet (mostly basement toilets backup due to sewer clog) over flows due to a sewer backup, you still should change your wax gasket if the sewer water comes out from the base of the toilet as-well.
wax_gasketOld gaskets can also result in sewer like smell coming into your house. This is important, as many customers call us because they have a sewer smell in the house even though there is no sewer backup. Mostly it is due to open sewer caps, dried out drains or toilet bowls with broken wax gaskets. Wax gaskets do not need to be changed regularly. Change them if needed.

]]> http://a4995.com/blogs/2009/02/10/water-coming-out-of-the-base-of-the-toilet/feed/ 0 What to do with sewer smell? http://a4995.com/blogs/2007/04/08/what-to-do-with-sewer-smell/ http://a4995.com/blogs/2007/04/08/what-to-do-with-sewer-smell/#comments Mon, 09 Apr 2007 00:24:45 +0000 admin http://a4995.com/blogs/?p=8 A lot of time people complain about a sewer smell in their house but they don’t actually have a sewer backing up anywhere. Majority of the times this is because of a dried out floor drain in the basement.
All drains consist of “U” shape or “ P” shape traps. The trap holds water in order to keep the sewer gas out. If your floor drain or any other drain in the house is not used for a while, the water in the trap evaporates and allows the sewer gas to enter your house. You can prevent this by simply pouring water in the drains that have not been used for a while.

In some cases the sewer backs up in the “sewer pit” and keeps overflowing in the sewer pit instead of the basement toilet of shower. This happens if your sewer caps get loose and the sewer overflows in your pit (incase of a backup). The sewer water keeps backing up and depending on the size of your pit you will not realize you have a back up until you see water crawling into your basement room next to the sewer pit. In this case you can call $49.95 Any Sewer or Drain and have your sewer snaked for $49.95.

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