duck_fook2000
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try your water source. Sounds like there is a lot of sulfer getting through. If it is on city water, then check wiht them. If it is a private well, then call the landlord. |
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Kris L
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That smell of rotten eggs is from 'sulfur' and you may be able to 'sue' the people who built your mall so that you can 'move' without having to 'pay as much' for it ... but ONLY if you can 'find the source of the sulfur' (probably an underground stream or creek) and get 'evidence' that the builder knew about it but 'ignored it' ... there may not have been a 'sulfur smell' while the water was 'near the ground' or above ground, but it 'comes out' when it's underground. |
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Nurse Mildred Ratched
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If you're renting a retail space and the other businesses are having problems, talk to the other owners about pitching in to have a lawyer write some nasty letters and perhaps file a suit to force the management to fix the problem, since something like this may affect your business negatively.
Good luck. |
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pop_pop
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call city hall or the health board |
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Jennifer
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Call the City you live in and report the odor. Sounds like one of the sewer lines has a backup. If you live in L.A then the number to call is 3-1-1. Report the intersection or area where the smell is coming from. A crew should go out to inspect the problem ASAP. |
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Bobcat
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While it is your building manager's job to find the source of the odor, it may be the result of another tennant's grease trap or floor drains.
If the odor is bad enough to cause a loss of business, you may want to state this in writing to the manager and allow them a resonable time to resolve this.
In reality, I hate getting attorneys involved unless it is a last resort and you have tried everything possible to resolve this with the building management. |
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Gerald
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Poor water in the drains and floor drains--the trap is dry and lets the gas come up in the store...read the lease for legal issues... |
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Kelsey Koala
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my friend used to have a store like that he used alot of bleach to clean pretty much every thing. the smell went away.
preople used to call it the stinky store lol. even tho it dont smell any more every one still calls it that hahaha |
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Ron H. Appraiser
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Sounds like its a septic problem with the city and cannot be remided with plumbers. Contact your city department of sanitation and advise them of the situation. Cities have what are called "traps" in the ground and often time the traps don't get cleaned and the stinch comes up through the pipes.
also one other thing is if the pipe get dry to do freezing weather or very hot weather the same thing will happen,the smell will come up through the pipes. If you want to try and poor a few buckets of water in the drains to wet the pipes and see if the works it will be worth a try.
But call your city as I stated |
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Under Z Sea
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Tell the building manager that if they dont have a professional come out to locate and take care of the smell that you will have the problem addressed through the health dept. Get a petition and have all the other store owners sign it too. Keep any receipts from any work you have had done, as you may be going to court to ge tthem back. |
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mighty_whitey
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Do you or any of the other businesses in the strip mall use propane? A rotten egg smell is added to propane gas so you can tell when it's leaking. |
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stephen t
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I would have the Town/City Board of Health investigate the problem. Recently, this business that I liked had a nasty sewage smell, I got the Board of Health to go do an inspection. The Board of Health said that with the dry, hot weather it was causing fumes to come back up through the pipes. They said to run water. The smell has gone away but it was horrible while it lasted. |
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breez
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Ask a lawyer. I think you might. |
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Connor L
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move ur store dude |
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rmatey
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i work at and ice cram shop and we have the same nasty smell. if your store is a.. eatery, food business, then u might have a grease trap. its a hole in the flooor designed to collect extra grease or carb that come out of your water system, or fod. its really weird and i dont understand it exactly but we just have to clean it out every month.
it looks like a sewwer grate thats square and big. its horable.
if u arnt a eatery, then.. it could be one in the building that coulld have one. other that that.. i dont know.
i hope i helped at least a little...? |
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RACHEL
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Are you sure it's the sewage; and not something dead? Maybe an animal crawled somewhere and died? |
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Chris B
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was it a sewer store |
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iGNORANT GiRL
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call a plumber |
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