Laundry Room Smells Like Natural Gas

We moved into a brand new house.

Laundry room smells like natural gas.

If you smell sewer gas when you do laundry you need to get to the bottom of the issue. Your drain doesn t even have to be completely clogged for these smells to become an issue. We had a guest stay with us and i noticed a foul smell. However it s possible for the valve to fail over time and emit a small amount of gas into the air whether or not the dryer is operating.

Both sewer gas and natural gas have an odor that is described to be like a rotten egg smell and can cause some serious health effects if exposed even at low levels over a long period. The valve should seal shut when your dryer is off so that gas isn t released. This is to make sure you can smell it if there s a leak. Clogs in the drain line are another common culprit when it comes to sewage smells in the laundry room.

If you ve recently completed a laundry load with clothes soiled with lighter fluid chemicals or solvents it s possible that the washer didn t entirely eliminate the stains and odors. Sewer gas smells like sulfur and that smell isn t just gross it can be dangerous for your health. This one requires a little elbow grease. In the laundry room there is a closet that also has the sump pump and ejector pit.

Gas technically has no smell but additives are put in it to give it a skunk like odor. Your washing machine s drain line can become clogged up over time. Usually a quick fix from your plumber can solve the problem. Fixing a rotten egg smell coming from your washing machine.

Our washer and dryer and on the upstairs level so nothing is connected here. If you smell gas even when your dryer is off the problem might be a defective valve. We have a lower level laundry room floor pipe that has a horrible sewer gas smell. This can lead to smells that are very similar to sewer gas.