Bad smell from sink/washing machine

worried_jim

When using the washing machine I am getting a bad smell coming from my plug hole in the kitchen sink. The smell is a bit like a rotten egg.

Can any one recommend a way or product(s) to remedy this please ?

Okydoky25

I've found soda crystals helped me. Put them in your machine on the hottest level.

Hintza

A decent U bend? Or just put the plug in when the machine is on?

SailorSam

Try cleaning out the trap.
But put a bucket underneath before you undo it.

keystone

The problem is not the washing machine the problem is gunk and grunge in your waste pipework. Needs a damned good clean out.

Cheers

worried_jim

keystone wrote: »

The problem is not the washing machine the problem is gunk and grunge in your waste pipework. Needs a damned good clean out.

Cheers

What would be the best product to do this?

DUTR

worried_jim wrote: »

What would be the best product to do this?

Don't know about best! But this certainley does the trick

http://www.challs.com/en/buster/kitchen_plughole_unblocker

dom2599

We had the same problem, it was the dishwater flowing back down the washer waste pipe and sitting there and smelling.....i put a bend in the washer waste pipe (tied the pipe up under the sink/work top) and no more smells from the washing machine

plumface

worried_jim wrote: »

What would be the best product to do this?

A bit (lot) of elbow grease,white vinegar and then bleach!
Dont bother buying 'unblockers' mentioned in other posts,why bother as its only hard work and bleach (or the like) that will cure the smell.

southcoastrgi

plumface wrote: »

A bit (lot) of elbow grease,white vinegar and then bleach!
Dont bother buying 'unblockers' mentioned in other posts,why bother as its only hard work and bleach (or the like) that will cure the smell.

hard work & elbow grease :rotfl:

what do you suggest ? crawling inside the waste pipe & giving it a good clean out

plumface

southcoastrgi wrote: »

hard work & elbow grease :rotfl:

what do you suggest ? crawling inside the waste pipe & giving it a good clean out

Perhaps you could enlighten us as to what 'miracle' in a bottle to buy?
The clue to the problem is the ' gunk and grunge' mentioned earlier.
No amount of expensive rubbish you can buy that claims to clear blocked pipes will work.
Disconnect the waste pipes at all joints/elbows/traps and clean through/scrape out of all 'carp' inside,job done.
I await your ill informed advice.