Stinky Leak

Yesterday around 5:15 Scott called me at work and said he thought we had a gas leak. He could smell it really bad in the laundry room where our furnace, water softener, hot water heater and washer and dryer are. I told him to call the city and have someone come look at it. Aquila was there by 6:00. Luckily it wasn't a gas leak. It was sewer gas. We have 2 drains in the basement in showers and what used to be a shower that never get used. They had dried out and that's what Scott smelled. We had to keep pouring water down them yesterday evening. They did check for gas leaks though and didn't find any but did find a carbon monixide leak. It was coming out of our hot water heater. Scott couldn't get to the store last night to get the part to fix it so we had to shut the water heat off. We still had hot water to take showers this morning. Scott got it fixed this afternoon. Thank goodness for the stinky leak otherwise we may not have found the carbon monoxide leak. Maybe we need to get a carbon monoxide detector.