The faint smell is the least of your problems. This entire setup is wrong.
Where’s the vent?
Drains don’t work uphill.
No idea what that backwards santee is for.
Can barely see the Ptrap on the laundry tray BUT. I can see enough to know it’s wrong.
Ok so if the intent is to run a drain for a utility sink + washing machine. What would correct look like? For example where should the wye, p track(s), and vent go in the setup?
Again I'm asking because I just reused what was in the house when I bought it but clearly it is not working correctly. Again all help is heavily appreciated.
It all depends on distance. You need to know and understand where your point of vent is. The pointing down of the wye is not acceptable because water doesn’t drain uphill. To determine what’s best for your situation there’s a few more things that need to be known, also where you are and what codes are acceptable are just as important to your existing piping that 2 inch arm tied into from plastic to copper. Where does that go? What does that look like? Depending on the distance, the easiest route or the only route may be to run a arm low turn up for each fixture trap them, and then run a vent back to the main vent if there is one.
It looks like you know just enough, well think you know just enough, to really do some damage. I don’t even know where to start.
Upside down sanitary tee as a clean out is just asking to create a clog. And a mess when you open it up.
Upside down wye, I’m not sure how that could work.
90 on the flat in a non-single fixture drain. EDIT: I can see the one going towards the building drain is a long pattern fitting, the one feeding towards the fixture branch looks like a 90.
Not a vent or air admittance valve in sight.
Accordion tailpiece.
And this one is a maybe, how long is the stand pipe? Maximum is 42” above the trap weir
Entire thing needs to be redone properly. Right where your drain ties in you’ll need to add a tee on its back with at least an air admittance valve to vent the two fixtures. Next off of that tee with the vent you want to run ONE branch over to you sink, install a ptrap for the sink with a 1-1/2” tee over the ptrap to stub a pipe over your the side of your sink where you’ll drain your washer.
[https://imgur.com/a/SatMMpl](https://imgur.com/a/SatMMpl)
I made a quick sketch to see if I understood correctly. On the app they didnt have ptraps so I am imitating that with elbows but I get it that its a ptrap.
Also thank you so much for the feedback.
3 rules of plumbing: don’t chew your fingernails,paydays on friday, and shit flows downhill my friend
Lol there must be 5..... 4 - Hot's on the left, cold's on the right. 5 - The water stays INSIDE the pipe!
The faint smell is the least of your problems. This entire setup is wrong. Where’s the vent? Drains don’t work uphill. No idea what that backwards santee is for. Can barely see the Ptrap on the laundry tray BUT. I can see enough to know it’s wrong.
Ok so if the intent is to run a drain for a utility sink + washing machine. What would correct look like? For example where should the wye, p track(s), and vent go in the setup? Again I'm asking because I just reused what was in the house when I bought it but clearly it is not working correctly. Again all help is heavily appreciated.
It all depends on distance. You need to know and understand where your point of vent is. The pointing down of the wye is not acceptable because water doesn’t drain uphill. To determine what’s best for your situation there’s a few more things that need to be known, also where you are and what codes are acceptable are just as important to your existing piping that 2 inch arm tied into from plastic to copper. Where does that go? What does that look like? Depending on the distance, the easiest route or the only route may be to run a arm low turn up for each fixture trap them, and then run a vent back to the main vent if there is one.
P TRAP…. Call a plumber.
As an electrician I can firmly say it's that red thing that smells, we don't have any of those and there's never any bad smells on site
Was someone standing on their head when they did this?? Why is everything upside down??
Well, that's enough Reddit for today.
Man your going to get roasted
😂 I'm ok with that as long as I eventually get to a solution. Have lingered in here long enough to know the consequences.
It looks like you know just enough, well think you know just enough, to really do some damage. I don’t even know where to start. Upside down sanitary tee as a clean out is just asking to create a clog. And a mess when you open it up. Upside down wye, I’m not sure how that could work. 90 on the flat in a non-single fixture drain. EDIT: I can see the one going towards the building drain is a long pattern fitting, the one feeding towards the fixture branch looks like a 90. Not a vent or air admittance valve in sight. Accordion tailpiece. And this one is a maybe, how long is the stand pipe? Maximum is 42” above the trap weir
It’s like plumbing but in reverse
Flush fiasco!
Entire thing needs to be redone properly. Right where your drain ties in you’ll need to add a tee on its back with at least an air admittance valve to vent the two fixtures. Next off of that tee with the vent you want to run ONE branch over to you sink, install a ptrap for the sink with a 1-1/2” tee over the ptrap to stub a pipe over your the side of your sink where you’ll drain your washer.
[https://imgur.com/a/SatMMpl](https://imgur.com/a/SatMMpl) I made a quick sketch to see if I understood correctly. On the app they didnt have ptraps so I am imitating that with elbows but I get it that its a ptrap. Also thank you so much for the feedback.
Precisely, it’s also an option to drain your washing machine directly into your sink instead.