How to fix a smelly Drain | Tips & Tricks

Plumbing How To -- we use our kitchen sink on a daily basis, and sometimes you get a foul smell coming from the kitchen drain. In this article we will explain how to fix a smelly drain as well as some ways to avoid smelling drains.

Cleaning a Drain With Baking Soda

An easy way to try to fix a smelly drain is to pour a cup of baking soda down your kitchen sink and let it work for 15-20 minutes before flushing the baking soda down the drain with a large pan of boiling hot water. After that turn off the garbage disposal and clean the rubber or plastic guard at the entrance to your drain. Then clean the pipes that run to the external plumbing using any commercial drain cleaner.

How to Stop Smelly Drains

In order to avoid a kitchen drain from smelling, you should try not to dump any food down the sink, and make sure that the sink stopper closes properly. If any food bits do go down the kitchen drain then make sure that you rinse it with enough water to get the particles past the sink p-trap.
To prevent a smelly bathtub drain, you shoud try to keep the amount of hairs that get flushed down the drain to a minimum, they can eventually lead to a slower drain, which in turn will allow smelly bits to settle more easily on the inside of the drain pipes. To avoid this all you need is a catch over the drain to block the hair from going down the drain.

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