Bathroom Smells Like Sewer. Here are five reasons your bathroom smells like a sewer has your bathroom suffered from any of these issues? Why does my bathroom smell like sewer?
One of most common causes of sewer odors in the bathroom and any area in the house with a drain is simply water evaporating from water traps. I've seen some information indicating that it could be sewer gas coming in from one of the faucets that isn't used on the double sink in the bathroom, but after this article i removed one and it was yellow (burned) and smelled exactly like the mysterious fishy smell. That is where the smell would be coming from.
We have an upstairs bathroom with an odor at times that smells like sewer.
Lately our laundryroom stinks like sewer when we run the washer, not always but once in a while. The kitchen sink, and washing machine do it's really embarrassing to have people over when my bathroom always smells like poop! Laundryroom is located in the second floor. Eau de sewer is definitely not the fragrance i wanted wafting throughout my home, so getting rid of it was a top priority, requiring we are smelling sewer gas in our guest bathroom, and the smell has spread into adjacent closets that share a wall with the bathroom.