Bad Odor from my gabage disposal and ac

[benard44]

I just moved into an aprtment in Nashville ,Tn about six weeks ago. Few days after I moved in, I notice that the toilet bowl was just foaming. First, I thought my little girl poured soap into the toilet. I was mad at her. Few days later, I noticed that the toilet just started backing up and foaming-this time, my dauther was not home. A few minutes later the kitchen sink started doing the same. Their is this very bad odor that is coming from the gabage disposal in the kitchen.
I have used baking soda and pinesoul to clean the gabage disposal, but the smell just keep coming.
The last one month, I have tried to use my air condition, but the stench that comes from it is just so bad-it smells like sewage. I found out that the apartment have a septic tank not connected to municipal lines. I am not sure if the source of all these problem is the same.
Please, what shall I do to eliminate these problems?

 

[Cass]

The only thing I can think of is some sort of foaming drain cleaner being poured in from another unit...Contact the LL and let them deal with it...the smell could easily be from a septic system that is not functioning right...you could call the health dept.

 

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[patsfan78]

Call the landlord

Call the landlord.

It is their problem not yours. Sounds lilke the septic is backing up.

If he/she dosent follow through call the town and talk to the health dept.

 

[Jimbo]

Hard to put this all together....but has the A/C been serviced recently? Maybe someone uses some foaming coil cleaner, then rinsed it, and the A/C condensate drain may be connected incorrectly to your sewer system

 

[Master Plumber Mark]

stopped up drain???

pardon me for intruding...

but it sounds like you
might have a stopped up plumbing system

sometimes when a septic stops up it can actually belch
some pretty nasty odors into the home..

I suggest that you start at the septic

see if their is a clean out in the yard and
see what happens if you take the plug off....