Love this amazing feedback! 🙏🙏

how the heck did the wire get thru the easte pipe.. i can understand the drill going through the waste pipe.. but inserting the wire.. what ... blindly ? thru both sides of the waste pipe ? what are the odds ?

Your welcome Sue! Good luck 👍

Me too

Me too!

i seen some weird crap over the years but this is HOLY SMOKES BATMAN that was insane .. and yes would have loved to seen this repair

I dunno man,…. Some lazy ass electricians out there who don’t give poop.

Thank you 🙏

Sometimes that’s what it takes. 👍

If you have the knowledge to spot that why you don’t do it yourself? Anyway you should only Hire a well established company , fully licensed and bonded .don’t cheap out , that way you can let the do their thing with piece of mind and you know... not be a total douche watching over their shoulders.

Yeah, bill certainly called it. 🤔🤔

100% bill did it

He clearly used the vent as conduit.

Thanks so much for sharing this story! We hope you get the bottom of this. Please get back to us as to what you found.

​@@TwinHomeExperts Hey guys, we ** FINALLY ** got to the bottom of this, and I think it's one for the record books! This is after 4 months of intense searching, with as many twists and turns as a 'Whodunnit' murder-mystery and in fact it's been a 20 year problem according to one of our longest renting tenants... First I have to thank you guys for your videos because after having numerous plumbing 'experts' and other professionals on the property, it was one of your tips that lead us closer to finding it. All of the others were dead-wrong, despite their fancy video technology, amateur smoke pellet tests, and wasting tons of time hunting down P traps, replacing 2 toilet wax rings, and nearly jack hammering out a lower level carry out restaurant's bathroom because one plumber said their main line plumbing was all wrong... Well all the 'pros' were all wrong, dead-wrong and in the end it was a 15 minute $15 repair --- It just took thousands of dollars to get to the point of where we could find it.. I'll put together a video and/or overview report if you're interested and if it will help people -- I have to say this was one of the hardest challenges in my life to figure out, and we were nearly ready to give up. So glad it's been solved, and now all the building tenants can breath a sigh of sewer-gas free relief!!!

@@BrettFogle how did you end up finding the source of the smell and what was the problem? As I have the same issue, where a few apartments keep on having sewage smell occasionally.

@@BrettFogle Please enlighten us Brett!! I'm very glad you found the source!

​@@SGluck-um5xd Sorry have been very busy with some new life directions. I'd like to do a full documentation of this, with pictures but will need some time. The phone I used during this project just died but I believe the photos are on Google Cloud. Here's the short version: - Our family has had 2 commercial townhouses for 30 years, so they're old. - Years ago, our family video rental store took over both sides of the main floor. - Subsequently the sides were sealed up and separated again. - A new main floor tenant, a bike repair shop started complaining of sewer gas smells coming out of the air vents, but only at certain times of the day. - We determined this coincided with when the rooftop restaurant exhaust fans turned on at around 11 AM. - Multiple 'experts' came and gave opinions. Most were directed at the newer restaurant that opened below a year ago. - We cleaned out sewer lines, did smoke tests, tore through drywall, and ceramic tiles, and nearly jackhammered up the basement floor to re-run sewer lines. - But it didn't add up. - The original theory was that the rooftop vans were pulling sewer gasses out of the sewer and/or the restaurant lines. But the restaurant wasn't having the smell. - So I came up with a different theory, that they smell was in fact coming from the 3rd floor tenant somehow, and being pulled down into the main level ceiling. - Further smell testing in the drop ceiling indicated this could be it. So we cut out 20' drywall ceiling to find the 'leak' -- but it was not found. - We tried spraying expanding foam, and re-insulating the ceiling. But that also did not work. - I could not see past the drop ceiling because of the AC ductwork there. So we determined to remove 18' of metal ducts. - We still could not locate the source. - After hours after the construction team had left, I decided to run a thin camera up the wall between the floorboards to see if I could see anything. - We had determined where the smell was the worst, coming down through the ceiling at this point, between where the buildings had been separated. - The first Two sections showed nothing. - Out of desperation and nearly ready to give up, I tried one more time. The next section over (floor board joists are 16" apart).... There it was. - Approximately 16" inches up from the true ceiling / upper floor board and in side a wall was what looked like a piece of PVC vent pipe with a rag or other material stuffed into it a long time ago. - A bit farther up, the camera showed what looked like it could be a broken PVC elbow pipe as well but wasn't clear. - But this was exactly 14' from the backwall of the building, and 16" from the floor. - So after months and thousands of dollars spent on unnecessary plumbing repairs, pipe videos, smoke tests, drywall demolition and hunting... - I was able to pinpoint the location, cut 2 5" x 5" holes in the upper floor tenant's wall to expose and repair the problem for under $10 in materials. - Best I could tell, this area was the kitchen area of the home decades ago, and when the remodeling team tried to cap one of the sink vent pipes, they stuffed a rag into the open end, possibly to properly cap it later on, but never did. - The 2nd issue was a broken PVC elbow that looked very old, and likely cracked from the weight / pressure of a 3 story tall building vent stack. - But that was it! I'll upload some pictures when I can soon... - But wait, you ask? Why didn't the upper floor tenant ever smell the sewage gases? - That's what didn't make sense from the start. However, what was happening was that when the restaurant vent fans turned on, they were sucking a lot of air from the commercial kitchen's 3 floors down, creating a lot of negative pressure. - The air needed to come from somewhere, so it was sucking air from the walls and every crack or open air source it could find, from the entire building. - This explains why the sewage gases were only noticeable during these periods of negative pressure, effectively 'sucking' sewage gases out of the vent stack, up and out into the walls, where it was being pulled back down into the main floor ceiling and walls. - Later I learned that it was actually a 20 year old intermittent problem that previous tenants gave up on.. - Ultimately solved for under $20 and under 20 minutes of PVC and drywall repair... It was knowing where to look that was the HARD and EXPENSIVE part!!! Really hope this helps some of you out there... If you're not sure where to look, really look at old plans, and where an old vent stack tie-in could have been re-plumbed or broken over the years. In this case... Occam's Razor was right. "The simplest explanation is usually the best one"

Just get us a plane ticket dear heart! 😀😀

Wow! Great share here.

Thank joe! We are in talks, but nothing as of yet. I will pass this on to the TV executives. 😄😄

This answered all my questions. Thank you lol

Doesn't matter if it's on purpose or not. You shouldn't just blindly drill through walls. You could hit sewage pipes, ductwork, WATERLINES, electrical lines, etc.

@@liamwelsh5565 Exactly. In fact incompetence is even worse. At least the 'cowboy electrician' would have known the source of the problem if it had been deliberate.

The home owner is a face shield wearing surfer dude. As liberal as it gets. I doubt he does any remodeling.

How do you accidentally drill a hole into and then run an electrical wire thru a sewer pipe if you are a professional?

Get a good plumber they should be able to get it figured out

Your comment made me LOL so hard! I too have been at the mercy of our inept "electricians" and so called "plumbers". They're a JOKE here in Fl. I've had sewer gas issues in both of the places I've rented since I moved here. They're both BRAND NEW construction places. Neither leak was resolved. I broke my lease on the first place and moved out. I'm still suffering in the second one, but ready to move. At this point, I'm literally looking to move out of the state as I can't seem to find any housing without a sewer gas leak. I also had serious electrical issues in the second place for months. Property management companies are worthless here, and there's no agencies to force them to fix things. Sewer gas is apparently an acceptable problem to have in this state.

Same

Wow! New Zealand a place we want to go visit. Thank you for tuning in. There owner is going to contact the electrician about this for sure.

Crazy huh! This was a big find.

@@TwinHomeExperts the twins deliver . It's performance that counts . BOLD , DARING --> INNOVATIVE !

The electrician probly thought ....Well the wire is insulated so lets run it through the sewage pipe even though there is plenty of space above and below the pipe to run the wire .

I find this hard to beleive that a licensed electrician would do this.. amateur sparkie did this...

Hello. Did you get this figured out? I’m trying to pinpoint my smell too 😩

I wish that they could have a pro Bono program to help poor people with their problems!!!

Had a sewerage smell in our house as well , it’s turned out the pipes were blocked for quite some time as the toilet itself wasn’t flushing properly , a plumber had to unblock the main pipes underground , the owner didn’t want to do anything it he had to once it wasn’t working finally got results.

that’s crazy cause my landlord told me to do that how inconsiderate are they

This was a tough one! So glad we were able to pin point this. 💪👍

Right!? This was a Crazy find.

skunks will spray when the fecal smell is really strong., ask me how I know.

California, beach area.