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I have a vile smell coming from my kitchen sink (the plughole not the actual sink obv).


So far I have tried:


Disinfectant


Bleach


Bicarbonate of soda and white vinegar


Ecozone enzyme sticks


None of them have worked.


Can anybody suggest anything? I asked at the DIY shop but they only had one citrusy thing which was quite expensive and didn't look particularly strong.


The drain where the water goes to at the back of the house doesn't seem to smell, and there is no apparent blockage as water is running away OK.


Grrrrr. I have people staying soon and at present the house stinks of drains :(

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I had a stinky sink problem that nothing would solve..


... but I then found there was a waste outlet pipe for a dish washer (That I did not )..

The U-bend(trap) had dried out and the smell was coming from the outside drain...


So just topped up the U-bend with water and bleach..


Foxy.

One word of warning. Caustic Soda is good, but it's a lethal chemical. I used to work with it and the burns it can cause are very very nasty. It's a strong alkali which has aggressive fat (flesh & eyes particularly) eating properties. Being anhydrous the powder can drift in the air and into unprotected eyes. The moisture in the eye will activate it enough to cause damage.

If you do use it, then gloves, eye protection and someting over your hair are all good practice.


It attacks fats, hair, oil paint and such like. It doesn't burn plastics or stainless, but it does react with aluminium.

alice Wrote:

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> this has worked for me. fill all sinks baths with

> hot water then simultaneously pull all plugs.



Thanks, but the drain isn't blocked, and the bath water goes to a different drain from the kitchen sink anyway.

Do you have a washing machine waste joining the sink waste above the u-bend? If yes, then sink water can run back into the washing machine waste pipe, partially blocking it with sink sludge. It's above the water trap so it stinks. To minimise that problem tie up a loop of the hose as high as you can, so it is above the water level in the sink. The washing machine should then keep it flushed out.

MarkT

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