I purchased my home 4 years ago and was aware of a prior issue with the existing plumbing vent. The issue is, the previous owner remodeled the bathroom and never tied anything into the existing plumbing vent. I have 1 bathroom with a shower, sink and toliet that are not attached to any plumbing vents.
I can see the existing plumbing vent from my basment ceiling. It is made of copper and goes to the roof. Everyime it would rain, the vent would obviously drip into the basement
For the past 4 years I've been too lazy to do anything about it. I have no idea why the previous owner didn't tap into the plumbing vent as the new PVC piping he put in for the sink goes right underneath the existing plumbing vent!!
So, seeing the PVC piping for the sink is right underneath the copper plumbing vent, I went to Lowes and bought a "Y" shaped fernco coupling. My plan was to go to the basement and cut the PVC pipe for the bathroom sink and connect the coupling to each side of the PVC pipe and the plumbing vent.
After struggling with connecting everything, I finally got it all together. However I have an issue. The issue is, I now have a sewer smell coming from my bathroom sink. It was not there before when nothing was hooked up to the vent...but is noticable now that I have hooked into the vent.
I assume this is not normal? If it is, will the smell eventually go away since it has been so long since anything was vented?
One a better note, even though the plumbing vent is hooked into the sink pipe, my toilet seems to flow better now ...but the smell coming from my sink is pretty bad
I can see the existing plumbing vent from my basment ceiling. It is made of copper and goes to the roof. Everyime it would rain, the vent would obviously drip into the basement
For the past 4 years I've been too lazy to do anything about it. I have no idea why the previous owner didn't tap into the plumbing vent as the new PVC piping he put in for the sink goes right underneath the existing plumbing vent!!
So, seeing the PVC piping for the sink is right underneath the copper plumbing vent, I went to Lowes and bought a "Y" shaped fernco coupling. My plan was to go to the basement and cut the PVC pipe for the bathroom sink and connect the coupling to each side of the PVC pipe and the plumbing vent.
After struggling with connecting everything, I finally got it all together. However I have an issue. The issue is, I now have a sewer smell coming from my bathroom sink. It was not there before when nothing was hooked up to the vent...but is noticable now that I have hooked into the vent.
I assume this is not normal? If it is, will the smell eventually go away since it has been so long since anything was vented?
One a better note, even though the plumbing vent is hooked into the sink pipe, my toilet seems to flow better now ...but the smell coming from my sink is pretty bad