FINALLY! No smelly basement
I have been fighting with the drains in our basement all season.
The drains need water in the pipes at all times so that sewer gases do not travel back up into the house creating smelly problems. For some reason, two of our drains have problems holding water now that the furnace is on. I suspect evaporation. Within 48 hours, I am to be found lugging buckets from the sink to the drains to refill them. Even trying to cap them only hides the problem for a little while. (Our cap is the poor man's version of products on the market.)
And then I found this...baby oil
Baby oil is mineral oil with a little fragrance added in.
I filled the drains with water, poured half a bottle (7 ounces) of baby oil into each one, covered them back up, and....yes. Less lugging of buckets. I can only imagine the the oil sits on top of the water and slows evaporation? However it works, let's hope that it buys me 5-7 days of time (or more maybe? Please?) before it's back to the bucket brigade.
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Cat litter...baby oil? Is it just me or is it starting to look like a trip down the consumer products isle on our site... ;-)
Posted by: A | January 11, 2004 9:03 PM