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PROBLEM FIXED I figured out what was going on here. It was so simple so I thought I should post it here for others. When the big box store delivered our washer, they connected the hot/cold hoses and the drain hose. Unfortunately they put way too much of the drain hose inside the drain pipe...

I cleaned the laundry drain vent with a mechanical snake and it was clean. So I called a plumber over and we discussed this issue. He believes that the new high capacity washer is drying the drain trap. So he thinks we have 2 options 1) Increase the size of thee drain trap. The laundry...

Thanks for the suggestions. I will try to clean the laundry drain with a mechanical snake - see if that fixes the problem.

We recently bought a 4.8 cu ft washer to replace our old 3.7 cu ft washer. Our laundry is located on the second floor. About a month or so after the new washer was installed, we started noticing a sewer gas smell coming from the washer drain pipe. This doesn't happen right after a wash but...