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Smell from kitchen sink - plumbing advice needed - photo attached

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  • Volcano
    Volcano Posts: 1,116 Forumite
    PeteTong wrote: »
    I could even give it a go myself.

    Yep, it'll be fairly easy, follow Mutton Geoff's advice.
  • Jonesya
    Jonesya Posts: 1,823 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    To save on having two separate traps you can get kits that link the waste outlets from both sinks together to take them to a common trap:

    http://www.wickes.co.uk/15-Bowl-Kit/invt/431918

    If you replace the trap you might want to look at a P trap or S trap - apparently the bottle traps are more prone to blockages.
  • PeteTong_2
    PeteTong_2 Posts: 31 Forumite
    Thanks for the advice.
  • Mutton_Geoff
    Mutton_Geoff Posts: 4,021 Forumite
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    A flat I used to own and rent out always had a nasty pong in the bathroom. I could never work out where it was coming from until I ripped it all out to replace. Some previous eejit had plumbed the cistern overflow with a short section of pipe straight across into a hole he'd cut into the soil stack (it was all boxed in so not seen).

    Warm sewer smells used to vent straight into the cistern above the water line and out into the room. Had been like that for years :confused:
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