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moldy smell from sink
I have two sinks in my kitchen. One main sink, which gets the majority
of the use and one sink in the island, which gets little use. The island sink drain emits this moldy smell all the time. I've tried putting bleach down there, nothing, the smell comes right back. Is there any way to get rid of that smell permanently? thanks. |
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On Nov 19, 2:52*pm, lloyd wrote:
I have two sinks in my kitchen. One main sink, which gets the majority of the use and one sink in the island, which gets little use. The island sink drain emits this moldy smell all the time. I've tried putting bleach down there, nothing, the smell comes right back. Is there any way to get rid of that smell permanently? thanks. Open the cabinet doors and crawl underneath and look around for mold. It might not be the sink. It might be something that gets wet from the sink. |
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On Nov 19, 12:12*pm, Pat wrote:
On Nov 19, 2:52*pm, lloyd wrote: I have two sinks in my kitchen. One main sink, which gets the majority of the use and one sink in the island, which gets little use. The island sink drain emits this moldy smell all the time. I've tried putting bleach down there, nothing, the smell comes right back. Is there any way to get rid of that smell permanently? thanks. Open the cabinet doors and crawl underneath and look around for mold. It might not be the sink. *It might be something that gets wet from the sink. Nope, it's definitely coming from the drain. thanks. |
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"lloyd" wrote in message ... On Nov 19, 12:12 pm, Pat wrote: On Nov 19, 2:52 pm, lloyd wrote: I have two sinks in my kitchen. One main sink, which gets the majority of the use and one sink in the island, which gets little use. The island sink drain emits this moldy smell all the time. I've tried putting bleach down there, nothing, the smell comes right back. Is there any way to get rid of that smell permanently? thanks. Open the cabinet doors and crawl underneath and look around for mold. It might not be the sink. It might be something that gets wet from the sink. Nope, it's definitely coming from the drain. thanks. does the island have a disposal or large sized drain? there could be all sorts of crud built-up inside a disposal, or the top of the downtube. pouring bleach wouldn't get to those parts. try using a bottlebrush to clean it out with something foaming (i use drain cleaner). regards, charlie cave creek, az |
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on 11/19/2008 2:52 PM lloyd said the following:
I have two sinks in my kitchen. One main sink, which gets the majority of the use and one sink in the island, which gets little use. The island sink drain emits this moldy smell all the time. I've tried putting bleach down there, nothing, the smell comes right back. Is there any way to get rid of that smell permanently? thanks. Is the drain vented? If not, see he http://www.rd.com/19540/article19540.html -- Bill In Hamptonburgh, NY In the original Orange County. Est. 1683 To email, remove the double zeroes after @ |
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lloyd wrote:
On Nov 19, 12:28 pm, "charlie" wrote: "lloyd" wrote in message ... On Nov 19, 12:12 pm, Pat wrote: On Nov 19, 2:52 pm, lloyd wrote: I have two sinks in my kitchen. One main sink, which gets the majority of the use and one sink in the island, which gets little use. The island sink drain emits this moldy smell all the time. I've tried putting bleach down there, nothing, the smell comes right back. Is there any way to get rid of that smell permanently? thanks. Open the cabinet doors and crawl underneath and look around for mold. It might not be the sink. It might be something that gets wet from the sink. Nope, it's definitely coming from the drain. thanks. does the island have a disposal or large sized drain? there could be all sorts of crud built-up inside a disposal, or the top of the downtube. pouring bleach wouldn't get to those parts. try using a bottlebrush to clean it out with something foaming (i use drain cleaner). regards, charlie cave creek, az Charlie, thanks for the response. I'll try the bottle brush, but honestly this sink and disposal gets very little use, so I don't think there is much crude in there. Will using a foaming drain cleaner hurt the pipes? Also, as I have just posted, this is a newly renovated kitchen. It's been less then a year and the sink started smelling about 6 months ago. Thanks again, lloyd There might be grease that is growing stuff, and bleach won't remove grease. I would try pouring a large pot of very hot water with plenty of dishwashing soap added into the drain. Then try the bleach. |
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lloyd wrote:
On Nov 19, 12:29 pm, willshak wrote: on 11/19/2008 2:52 PM lloyd said the following: I have two sinks in my kitchen. One main sink, which gets the majority of the use and one sink in the island, which gets little use. The island sink drain emits this moldy smell all the time. I've tried putting bleach down there, nothing, the smell comes right back. Is there any way to get rid of that smell permanently? thanks. Is the drain vented? If not, see hehttp://www.rd.com/19540/article19540.html -- Bill In Hamptonburgh, NY In the original Orange County. Est. 1683 To email, remove the double zeroes after @ To my unprofessional eye, it looks vented. The pipe comes out of the disposal, loops down then up as high as it can, before looping back down and into the floor, but unlike your photo there is only one loop, not two. Could the mold be building up at the bottom of the loop? Also, this kitchen was installed about a year ago, it's all new stuff and I started noticing the smell about 6 months ago. thanks for your help. lloyd My disposal gets smelly once in a while........I tried feeding some lemon peel through disposal and it seemed to cure the problem. I'm sure there is plenty of gunk that can hide from cleaners that are just poured down the drain, like the underside of splash-guard, etc. |
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On Nov 19, 12:29*pm, willshak wrote:
on 11/19/2008 2:52 PM lloyd said the following: I have two sinks in my kitchen. One main sink, which gets the majority of the use and one sink in the island, which gets little use. The island sink drain emits this moldy smell all the time. I've tried putting bleach down there, nothing, the smell comes right back. Is there any way to get rid of that smell permanently? thanks. Is the drain vented? If not, see hehttp://www.rd.com/19540/article19540.html -- Bill In Hamptonburgh, NY In the original Orange County. Est. 1683 To email, remove the double zeroes after @ To my unprofessional eye, it looks vented. The pipe comes out of the disposal, loops down then up as high as it can, before looping back down and into the floor, but unlike your photo there is only one loop, not two. Could the mold be building up at the bottom of the loop? Also, this kitchen was installed about a year ago, it's all new stuff and I started noticing the smell about 6 months ago. thanks for your help. lloyd |
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On Nov 19, 12:28*pm, "charlie"
wrote: "lloyd" wrote in message ... On Nov 19, 12:12 pm, Pat wrote: On Nov 19, 2:52 pm, lloyd wrote: I have two sinks in my kitchen. One main sink, which gets the majority of the use and one sink in the island, which gets little use. The island sink drain emits this moldy smell all the time. I've tried putting bleach down there, nothing, the smell comes right back. Is there any way to get rid of that smell permanently? thanks. Open the cabinet doors and crawl underneath and look around for mold. It might not be the sink. It might be something that gets wet from the sink. Nope, it's definitely coming from the drain. thanks. does the island have a disposal or large sized drain? there could be all sorts of crud built-up inside a disposal, or the top of the downtube. pouring bleach wouldn't get to those parts. try using a bottlebrush to clean it out with something foaming (i use drain cleaner). regards, charlie cave creek, az Charlie, thanks for the response. I'll try the bottle brush, but honestly this sink and disposal gets very little use, so I don't think there is much crude in there. Will using a foaming drain cleaner hurt the pipes? Also, as I have just posted, this is a newly renovated kitchen. It's been less then a year and the sink started smelling about 6 months ago. Thanks again, lloyd |
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"lloyd" wrote in message ... I have two sinks in my kitchen. One main sink, which gets the majority of the use and one sink in the island, which gets little use. The island sink drain emits this moldy smell all the time. I've tried putting bleach down there, nothing, the smell comes right back. Is there any way to get rid of that smell permanently? thanks. use it more often. the trap is probably drying out and letting the gases out. |
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"lloyd" wrote in message ... On Nov 19, 12:28 pm, "charlie" wrote: "lloyd" wrote in message ... On Nov 19, 12:12 pm, Pat wrote: On Nov 19, 2:52 pm, lloyd wrote: I have two sinks in my kitchen. One main sink, which gets the majority of the use and one sink in the island, which gets little use. The island sink drain emits this moldy smell all the time. I've tried putting bleach down there, nothing, the smell comes right back. Is there any way to get rid of that smell permanently? thanks. Open the cabinet doors and crawl underneath and look around for mold. It might not be the sink. It might be something that gets wet from the sink. Nope, it's definitely coming from the drain. thanks. does the island have a disposal or large sized drain? there could be all sorts of crud built-up inside a disposal, or the top of the downtube. pouring bleach wouldn't get to those parts. try using a bottlebrush to clean it out with something foaming (i use drain cleaner). regards, charlie cave creek, az Charlie, thanks for the response. I'll try the bottle brush, but honestly this sink and disposal gets very little use, so I don't think there is much crude in there. Will using a foaming drain cleaner hurt the pipes? Also, as I have just posted, this is a newly renovated kitchen. It's been less then a year and the sink started smelling about 6 months ago. Thanks again, lloyd --- a little used disposal gets this problem. anything collecting on the roof of the disposal or under the rubber flap will stay there and rot. the trap could also be drying out. i have a little used shower, which has a floor drain, that has this problem. i pour a little liquid drain cleaner and scrub around with a bottle brush to cure. i have to do this about once/year. use your sink more. the cleaner won't affect your pipes. it might affect a septic if you go overboard on it. |
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on 11/19/2008 3:43 PM lloyd said the following:
On Nov 19, 12:29 pm, willshak wrote: on 11/19/2008 2:52 PM lloyd said the following: I have two sinks in my kitchen. One main sink, which gets the majority of the use and one sink in the island, which gets little use. The island sink drain emits this moldy smell all the time. I've tried putting bleach down there, nothing, the smell comes right back. Is there any way to get rid of that smell permanently? thanks. Is the drain vented? If not, see hehttp://www.rd.com/19540/article19540.html -- Bill In Hamptonburgh, NY In the original Orange County. Est. 1683 To email, remove the double zeroes after @ To my unprofessional eye, it looks vented. The pipe comes out of the disposal, loops down then up as high as it can, before looping back down and into the floor, but unlike your photo there is only one loop, not two. Could the mold be building up at the bottom of the loop? Also, this kitchen was installed about a year ago, it's all new stuff and I started noticing the smell about 6 months ago. thanks for your help. lloyd Here's another type of island sink vent. http://www.taunton.com/finehomebuild...fh_174_056.asp I have one of these in my pool house sink. -- Bill In Hamptonburgh, NY In the original Orange County. Est. 1683 To email, remove the double zeroes after @ |
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KingFish wrote:
"lloyd" wrote in message ... I have two sinks in my kitchen. One main sink, which gets the majority of the use and one sink in the island, which gets little use. The island sink drain emits this moldy smell all the time. I've tried putting bleach down there, nothing, the smell comes right back. Is there any way to get rid of that smell permanently? thanks. use it more often. the trap is probably drying out and letting the gases out. Seconded. |
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On Nov 19, 1:21*pm, "Clot" wrote:
KingFish wrote: "lloyd" wrote in message .... I have two sinks in my kitchen. One main sink, which gets the majority of the use and one sink in the island, which gets little use. The island sink drain emits this moldy smell all the time. I've tried putting bleach down there, nothing, the smell comes right back. Is there any way to get rid of that smell permanently? thanks. use it more often. *the trap is probably drying out and letting the gases out. Seconded. Thanks to everyone. I'll try some of these things and see how it goes. |
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On Nov 19, 1:52*pm, lloyd wrote:
I have two sinks in my kitchen. One main sink, which gets the majority of the use and one sink in the island, which gets little use. The island sink drain emits this moldy smell all the time. I've tried putting bleach down there, nothing, the smell comes right back. Is there any way to get rid of that smell permanently? thanks. On one sink I have plastic pipe that seems to allow mold to grow, I pour in bleach, cover the drain overnight then fill sink with hot water and flush it the next morning. If you have traps and use it once a month then the traps are not dry, so id guess its mold on the pipes. |
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On Nov 19, 3:55*pm, "charlie"
wrote: "lloyd" wrote in message ... On Nov 19, 12:28 pm, "charlie" wrote: "lloyd" wrote in message .... On Nov 19, 12:12 pm, Pat wrote: On Nov 19, 2:52 pm, lloyd wrote: I have two sinks in my kitchen. One main sink, which gets the majority of the use and one sink in the island, which gets little use. The island sink drain emits this moldy smell all the time. I've tried putting bleach down there, nothing, the smell comes right back. Is there any way to get rid of that smell permanently? thanks. Open the cabinet doors and crawl underneath and look around for mold. It might not be the sink. It might be something that gets wet from the sink. Nope, it's definitely coming from the drain. thanks. does the island have a disposal or large sized drain? there could be all sorts of crud built-up inside a disposal, or the top of the downtube. pouring bleach wouldn't get to those parts. try using a bottlebrush to clean it out with something foaming (i use drain cleaner). regards, charlie cave creek, az Charlie, thanks for the response. I'll try the bottle brush, but honestly this sink and disposal gets very little use, so I don't think there is much crude in there. Will using a foaming drain cleaner hurt the pipes? Also, as I have just posted, this is a newly renovated kitchen. It's been less then a year and the sink started smelling about 6 months ago. Thanks again, lloyd --- a little used disposal gets this problem. anything collecting on the roof of the disposal or under the rubber flap will stay there and rot. the trap could also be drying out. i have a little used shower, which has a floor drain, that has this problem. i pour a little liquid drain cleaner and scrub around with a bottle brush to cure. i have to do this about once/year. use your sink more. the cleaner won't affect your pipes. it might affect a septic if you go overboard on it. What is the definition of "little". A rarely used sink/shower could have the trap dry out and then you can smell sewer gas. Just filling with water cures the problem but the smell might stick around for a while. |
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On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:46:19 -0800 (PST), lloyd
wrote: On Nov 19, 12:28Â*pm, "charlie" wrote: "lloyd" wrote in message ... On Nov 19, 12:12 pm, Pat wrote: On Nov 19, 2:52 pm, lloyd wrote: I have two sinks in my kitchen. One main sink, which gets the majority of the use and one sink in the island, which gets little use. The island sink drain emits this moldy smell all the time. I've tried putting bleach down there, nothing, the smell comes right back. Is there any way to get rid of that smell permanently? thanks. Open the cabinet doors and crawl underneath and look around for mold. It might not be the sink. It might be something that gets wet from the sink. Nope, it's definitely coming from the drain. thanks. does the island have a disposal or large sized drain? there could be all sorts of crud built-up inside a disposal, or the top of the downtube. pouring bleach wouldn't get to those parts. try using a bottlebrush to clean it out with something foaming (i use drain cleaner). regards, charlie cave creek, az Charlie, thanks for the response. I'll try the bottle brush, but honestly this sink and disposal gets very little use, so I don't think there is much crude in there. Will using a foaming drain cleaner hurt the pipes? Also, as I have just posted, this is a newly renovated kitchen. It's been less then a year and the sink started smelling about 6 months ago. Thanks again, lloyd Does it have a proper trap installed? |
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On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:52:18 -0800 (PST), lloyd
wrote: I have two sinks in my kitchen. One main sink, which gets the majority of the use and one sink in the island, which gets little use. The island sink drain emits this moldy smell all the time. I've tried putting bleach down there, nothing, the smell comes right back. Is there any way to get rid of that smell permanently? thanks. Permanent fix: Stop putting organic material down the sink. Dump a half cup of baking soda down the drain, pour in 1/2 cup of houshold vinegar. After an hour or two, rinse. |
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