mjb279
Apr 11, 2010, 04:14 PM
Help - my house smells like old wet roots! - several weeks ago I noticed a smell coming from the floor drains in the basement that kind of smelled like old rotten potatoes. My old 1929 house has basement floor drains without traps that drain to a single trap near the front of the house, and that trap empties into the sewer line headed for the street. I snaked out the drains and found a couple of hand fulls of roots in the line. I poured water down the drains and they seem to run all right and the trap has water in it. Instead of going away, the smell has gotten worse! - Any ideas? Could it be something else?