Ok guys i need some help here, i went to vacation for a whole week and when i came back the shower water stinks like garbage serious. I thought well it might go away after the old water washes out but still coming out with a bad smell, i am thinking of draining the water heater and adding fresh new water, anybody has any other ideas?? let me know thanks.
2007-07-03 15:59:20 · 8 answers · asked by Fumiya Sugawara 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
Run the water in the kitchen sink and bath tub for about ten minutes to flush out the lines. If the problem persists, it is in your water supply. A soft water well will sometimes smell like sulfur or rotten eggs if it is idle too long. I have also seen the results when a coal seam collapsed into the aquifer. If you are supplied by a cistern and the odor is accompanied by a yellow tint to the water, you have tannins which are the result of leaves or other organic matter decomposing in your water supply. Special filters and treatment are needed. If you are on a municipal water supply, call you utility company and see if they have done maintenance on the pipes or switched reservoirs recently.
2007-07-03 16:55:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You need to flush a hot water heater out anyway once a year..most have a drain on the bottom that any garden hose will screw on too..screw the hose on and run it outside where the water wont cover walkways etc.... then go inside and turn the bottom nozzle to open it and let her rip....do not turn your wtaer supply off for the pressure will help wash the contaminants out..what this is , is all water has minerals, iron etc in the water and thriough the years they deposit on the bottom of the hot water heater.... and eventually start scorching..thus giving off an odor..even so you left for a week and the water "lay dormant"..thus giving the bottom deposits more time to cook and scorch
2007-07-03 23:55:26 · answer #2 · answered by pcbeachrat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's simple. The magnesium rod in the water tank (heater) is starting to go, there's nothing you can do about it unless you can get the plug off without breaking it. Sometimes after years, the plug freezes and it's on there for good.
If you can get it out. put a new pipe plug on there and forget it.
The rod keeps the inside of the water heater from rusting but, it also degenerates after a time, giving off a sulfur smell especially after it sit for awhile.
I often wonder how good these do work and, to take it off when installing them ?
2007-07-04 00:04:41 · answer #3 · answered by cowboydoc 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you don't have trouble with sulphur in your water, might not hurt to check for a broken sewer line. Ours didn't smell but it backed up into the tub, nasty.
2007-07-03 16:06:53 · answer #4 · answered by wdr31 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Contact your water company, they will add chemicals that may be causing the smells, at any rate they should be made aware if your water isn't safe. Good luck
2007-07-03 16:06:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
your water is contaminated start washing with store drinking water.
2007-07-03 16:02:54 · answer #6 · answered by Nicholas F 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
your serial killer neighbor put his last victim in your water heater. guy, you've been showering in corpse water.
2007-07-03 16:07:52 · answer #7 · answered by steve b 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
CHeCK PiTS & *** 4 oDoR
2007-07-03 16:03:12 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋