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Jim
Lv 6
Jim asked in Home & GardenMaintenance & Repairs · 8 years ago

What can I use to neutralize Septic tank order?

My landlord / builder didn't install a P-trap in the septic tank line & the foul odor is disgusting. What product have you used to remidy this situation?

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  • chris
    Lv 7
    8 years ago
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    If the smell is coming from the toilet, you may have a bad wax seal. Pick up a kit at any hardware place. Turn off and disconnect water supply to the toilet and remove the nuts on either side at the base. Remove toilet. Use a putty knife to remove old wax ring and remove bolts while checking that the flange is secured properly to the floor. Install new new bolts and wax ring. Replace toilet. Put weight on toilet to seal properly. snug down nuts and cut bolts flush. Good luck.

    Source(s): Been there Done that
  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    For clogging, slow drains, drain field failure visible by wet spots in your yard, use the all-natural advanced formula Septic-Helper 2000 and Enza drain line cleaner from MillerPlante.net, It has the 8 natural bacteria and enzymes that digest the waste in the tank and out in the drain field. To reduce your phosphate and nitrate levels to zero coming from your Laundry, use their new all-natural, allergen free Enza washer-balls. According to the EPA, chemicals used in the home are the #1 problem polluting water supplies and water wells.

    The Enza Washer Balls, in contact with water, the ceramic contained in the Laundry Ball releases electrons, thus forming active oxygen and hydrogen peroxide (oxygenated water). The water that comes in contact with Washing Ball, either gains or loses electrons. The reaction generates powerful oxidized reducing power. The term oxidized reducing power means the phenomena that gives or receives electrons to a substance. When a substance loses electrons by combining with oxygen, it is called oxidization, and the phenomenon receiving the electrons that lose oxygen is called reduction. The electrons, released from the ceramic, dissolve the water (H2O), and perform purification repeatedly with the chemical reaction with the hydrogen-generated ion and the active oxygen provided with electrons.

    New federal regulations require that states clean up their water supplies. It mandates new inspections on all septic systems, water wells and with funding, local waterways. A failed inspection would include a slow drain in your leach field, low septic tank bacteria levels or elevated Nitrate levels in your Water Well or local Water Supplies; could require replacement of your entire system for $10K to $80K+ or connect to the city sewer system for $5K to $40K. The new inspections are failing 12% of systems each year and 82% of those older than 1977. Contact your local County Health Department for more information on regulations in your area.

  • 8 years ago

    Have a look at Hep Vo waterless traps. They fit on the horizontal waste pipes and prevent gases coming back into shower trays, basins, etc. They work 100% - I know, because I have them in my house.

  • 8 years ago

    where can this smell get out? you have traps on the toilet ..basins etc have never heard of putting a p trap in a drain run

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  • Barry
    Lv 5
    8 years ago

    all out side lines should be capped and all inside sinks, tubs, etc, should be trapped.. if so no smell, you need plumbing repair

  • 8 years ago

    put a seal in the komode

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