Unholy gawd awful smell...

[romanservices]

I've been doing some spring prep today firing off the guzzlers, finishing up my dash work left over from winter ect... I reluctantly decided it was time to purge all the pink antifreeze in the fresh water system. I bought the boat last fall and had a bunch of mechanical work done. I did some basic tests on the plumbing just to make sure it was all functional. long story short the fresh water system was winterized oh... bout 4 years ago. I don't know what happened over the 4 years but I think it turned into liquid vomit! no that's being to nice to vomit this is like if vomit were sick and it threw up that's what came out of my system. To top that off the shower sump check valve was all gobbered up, and the shower mixing valve decided it wanted to be a shower head instead.

Turns out the shower hardware is basically a residential mixing valve and I just happened to have a brand new one so that was an easy and cheap fix. The sump on the other hand is another story, it's filled with that lovely brew and I'm just dreading having to get my hands in there. Rather than being fiscally responsible and fixing the check valve, I've got a whole new sump on its way. It's going to take me a few days to get up the courage to swap it out.

I'm going to shock the whole system with bleach, lots and lots of bleach. will that be enough? I'll never ever drink or cook with water coming from that tank. Actually when we had our RV it was new and I still refused to drink or cook with that water so nothing new there.

 

[H2ONUT]

Put some Vicks Vapo under your nose while changing out the sump.

Use pool shock with a full tank of fresh water. Run all faucets to get the new water in all the lines and let it sit for a day or two. Then just flush the system with fresh water and you should be ok.


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[Stee6043]

I think I'd be more concerned that something got into your system (and still can?). Antifreeze should not turn to foul nastyness in 4 years. I'd wonder if you've got something else going on there...or leaking into the fresh water system.

 

[romanservices]

I think I'd be more concerned that something got into your system (and still can?). Antifreeze should not turn to foul nastyness in 4 years. I'd wonder if you've got something else going on there...or leaking into the fresh water system.

I hadn't thought of that. I wonder where at in the plumbing that could be a potential risk.

 

[Captain Allen]

Could be that your water had something in it that decomposed without oxygen present, after 4 years sitting. Anaerobic decomposition creates ungodly sewerage odors.

 

[magstang1]

Had a hot water tank that went south and caused my water to smell like sewage once.

Ive heard too much bleach is hard on the rubber seals in your pumps and faucets. Easy does it.

 

[Sublimetime]

Had a hot water tank that went south and caused my water to smell like sewage once.

Ive heard too much bleach is hard on the rubber seals in your pumps and faucets. Easy does it.

2 on this. Bleach and some plastics don't get along. Causes plastic to get very brittle.

 

[romanservices]

Thanks all, flushed out the take 2 times today each time with about 2 cups liquid bleach. smell is gone!! filled the take again with some more bleach and will let that sit tonight and flush it out again tomorrow. Once the shower sump arrives I should be done with this. I did however discover another disturbing thing today, opened up the top drawer of the vanity to find about 1/4 water in there. absolutely no wetness from above, the side or anywhere! drawer has no damage from standing water and no odd smell could be one of two things 1. a certain little 5 year old daughter or 2. the emergency egress window that is directly above it