For a while now (in fact I can pinpoint exactly when it started) when my washing machine drains there is the most awful smell comes out the kitchen plughole. Its the same when it is spinning.
I have occasinally noticed a bad smell from the machine if its left unused for 2 or 3 days.
I put a wash in using the timer to come on at 6am, when I took the washing out there was a really stale smell,a dn some of the wahsing had grey sticky bits all over it. I put some soda crystals, old dusters and some detergent ina nd put it on a cycle when I went to work. Have come home to find the same thing has ahppened to teh dusters.
Now a while ago, my neighbour 2 doors up had to get the dynorod man out and he was in my garden sticking poles down the drains. He siad it was a blockage of colgged up washing powder. Since then my drain has had the smell.
Also, when I had problems with my old machine last year, the engineer commented on the fact that the drian hose from the washing machine doesn't go into a standpipe, it goes into an outlet just above the u-bend on teh drain which comes from the kitchen plughole.
Do I need an engineer or a drain person?