Stench !!

[Joke DS]

Hi,
We've just got our airco, brandnew.
It's been on for about 2 days now.
Problem is that when I put it on, it's like a sewer running through my house !
It really stinks...

What can I do about that because it's not very nice to be in such a smell all day long !

Hope somebody can help us...

Regards,
Joke

[Eeram]

What is the humidity in the house?
Do you have carpets right through the house?

[Yuri B.]

Might not fan cage (ventilator) be scratching the case in the inside unit?

[Yuri B.]

Sorry confused sewer with saw....
Then, yes, look how drainage is done.

[icecube51]

hopefully there is no refrig leak, than the stench will be gone and the cooling capacity to.

Ice

[icecube51]

or a mouse or other beasty got trapt in the evaporator and is now rotting in the drippan.......had it ons to.

Ice

[al]

have they connected the drain to a sewer pipe with out trapping it? try pouring water into the driptray, if smell goes for a while and then returns it probably just needs a trap.

al

[Brian_UK]

What sort of unit is it and where is it fitted?

[Magoo]

I agree with Al, the condensate water trap is probably dry or not deap enough if a negative pressure in fan coil unit, induced draught

[chillyblue]

Have you trapped the drain??
If you have connected the drain to the main drains with no trap your fan could be pulling bad smells up from the drains.

CB

[Joke DS]

Hi all, thank for the many replies...
I'll have my husband to check it all out. We live in a rented appartement, first tenants though... but we haven't put in the airco ourselves so I dont know how it's installed.
It's a Daikin Split System BRC1C61 (anyway that's what it says on the remote controller)

And we do live in Ibiza, when it gets really hot the drains in the bathrooms stink a little bit too. But that's just a little bit and there's not airco unit inthere so that smell shouldn't be able to get into the other units, should it ?

Anyway, thanks again...

[al]

if the air con is tied to the drains then any smell from the drain will come up.

al

[Magoo]

If a new apartment , sounds like the plumber was cutting cost and not fitting "s " bends and "P "traps. Your bathroom should not smell at all, let alone the A/C.
PS , very unhealthy to live in that sort of enviroment, all sorts of airbourne nasties, hope you have full medical insurance cover.