AFScorp has
tired many products to control floor drain odors and has rep a couple
of products. Here are your options to control odors from floor drains.
Building
Pressure
Majority of floor drain odors are caused by the building being under a
negative pressure. We call this "INFILTRATION" which means you are
pulling or sucking in dust, odors or hot/cold temperature from sources
outside the building.
Solution: maintain a slight positive pressure at all times to keep
sucking or pulling in sewer odors from your floor p-traps or other
sewer traps.
P-Traps
When evaporation is a concern use mineral oil in your p-traps to
maintain a liquid seal in your p-traps. This works with trap primers
since the mineral oil will float on top of your water. Mineral oil will
also not hurt your sewer provider process and is safe for the
environment.
P-Trap
Odor Control Products
There are products on the market like SureSeal & Trap Guard
that can be used to help control odors from p-traps. Some concerns on
using them would be;
- debris or items
blocking the seal open and the trap is dry
- pressure buildup in the
piping system
- when a back flow occurs when
using floor check valves the water and solids have to go somewhere and
the next open DFU could be the toilet or other DFU to release the water
& solids.
