![]() Air leakage will occur through any route including through electrical conduits and/or the gaps in walls, ceilings, etc between areas. When there is a pressure differential in the air from one area to another, such as an exhaust fan lowering the pressure more in your apartment than other areas, then air will leak from higher pressure areas so as to equalize pressure. ![]() If there is no breaker panel in your apartment, you may need to ask the building manager to review the electrical drawings to determine where your smelly outlets are being fed from If there is a breaker panel within your apartment, suggest removing the front cover to determine if the odor is present within. Perhaps your apartment's breaker panel obtains power from a panel located in the garbage room or other smelly area and the odor is traveling through the conduit feeding your panel which is then transferred through smaller conduits to your offending outlets and switches. Normally, in newer buildings, all of the outlets and electrical circuits for each apartment obtain power from a breaker panel within each apartment, but each panel will receive power from a larger panel elsewhere in the building. Really looking for any ideas here or what steps I should follow? Should I call a plumber, or should I try to get someone to identify the smell? etcĮlectrical wiring in an apartment building is usually run in electrical conduit which is metal or plastic piping the wires are installed within. The last time I called maintenance they said that there has been an issue with some pump in the garage of the building which is admittedly also near me but supposedly it was fixed last week and my issues persist, so I have to assume that it is unrelated. Really hard to confirm this but so far its my only way to fight it seemingly. I think it might be somewhat better if i do a washing machine run with really warm water, but it might be nothing considering a run takes 30min - hour(s). The smell is the typical elusive sort that comes and goes, where it sometimes seems to be very intense and other times less even though seemingly noting happens / i do nothing. The washing machine does not smell at all. When the electrician was at my place I voiced this concern of mine and he said that there should be no way for the smell to reach my apartment since they are not connected. Currently this is my main culprit since the smell seems to match it pretty well albeit not quite 1:1 in my opinion. There is a garbage room right under me ( i live on the first floor). So no real previous knowledge exists about this issue I could turn towards to. I am renting the place and I am the first one to rent it. He said that the rain pipes do run down around that wall and under the floor. Back then an electrician was called and at that time he could not smell anything so the issue was dismissed. I had this issue in the previous year at the same time as well in the summer, no real issues with this in the winter or maybe just way way less. Also no other electric outlets from any other walls have this problem. The sink and the bathtube have zero smell so I do not think the smell is coming from the pipes. My issue is the smell coming from all electric outlets on the wall an also very faintly noticeable from the lightswitch present in the bedroom on that wall. The wall also has the bedroom on it and there is 2 electric outlets there. The wall is the backside of the bathroom where the washing machine, bathtube and the sink are connected. Hey everyone, I have the following mystical problem with my 2 room apartment in the city which is only a year old and it is extremely frustrating.Īs the title suggests, there is a sewage/garbage like smell coming out from the electric outlets on a wall.
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