joseafr
Sep 19, 2011, 09:46 AM
I purchased a house with an unfinished basement. I hired a freelance contractor that claimed to know plumbing. He did finish all the walls and the bathroom. The waste line runs underneath the cement floor. Previously there had been a bathroom there, so there wasn't a problem to install the toilet and the shower tube. Also there was a approximately a 4" black pipe connected to the main drainage and ran outside and up to the roof. The contractor cut the black 4" pipe from the main drain and connected it to an extractor fan on the sealing of the basement. The stinky smell comes out from the shower not from the toilet or the sink. My question is, a water trap should have been installed underneath the shower to absorbe the reflux gas? Please help.