julietturner
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Hi
I noticed a query submitted by "Laurie" back in 2004 on a smell in the bathrooms and it sounds nearly exactly like a problem i am experiencing in my home. The thread didn't mention if the problem was ever resolved and if so, I would be glad to know what the solution was as I am climbing the walls trying to discover what's causing the odour.
I thought I'd solved it when I discovered that the septic tank system in my old but completely renovated cottage was inadequate and had the soakaway running uphill. The entire system was replaced with a new biotank system and moved to a more suitable location, but the odour came back within a couple of days. Every single pipe and drain around and in the house is brand new, the water is clear, there are no blockages, no smells outside the house and the smell seems to come and go with no rhyme or reason. Nor does it seem to be linked to the lights. originally it was only in the upstairs bathroom but now my tenant tells me she can smell it in the kitchen sink and in the downstairs bathroom sink. When I lived in the house myself, there was never a smell coming from the sinks, only in the upstairs bathroom and occasionally the downstairs hall (where there are no drains).
I've checked for dead rats in the roof space and there have been a couple of bags of poison up there from when I first moved in but they are not even slightly nibbled.
The house is on its own land out in the countryside but the neighbours soakaway runs into a ditch about five or six hundred yards up the road from my house and the water runs into a drain just on the other side of the hedge outside my front door, into a pipe which runs under the road and into a ditch on the other side. I wondered if perhaps that might have something to with the problem as my builder said he noticed a bad smell coming from their ditch on a couple of occasions.
One plumber came to look and said the problem might be that there were no gullies but my builder assures me that gullies were put in with the new system. the plumber also suggested the new system should have had a valve put in, to stop water running back towards the house. But my builder says only town systems need valves and there is no way sewage is running back towards the house. he even lifted the manholes to check and they are all dry with not a hint of a smell. That new system was only installed about three weeks ago.
Really hope to hear from someone
Juliet
I noticed a query submitted by "Laurie" back in 2004 on a smell in the bathrooms and it sounds nearly exactly like a problem i am experiencing in my home. The thread didn't mention if the problem was ever resolved and if so, I would be glad to know what the solution was as I am climbing the walls trying to discover what's causing the odour.
I thought I'd solved it when I discovered that the septic tank system in my old but completely renovated cottage was inadequate and had the soakaway running uphill. The entire system was replaced with a new biotank system and moved to a more suitable location, but the odour came back within a couple of days. Every single pipe and drain around and in the house is brand new, the water is clear, there are no blockages, no smells outside the house and the smell seems to come and go with no rhyme or reason. Nor does it seem to be linked to the lights. originally it was only in the upstairs bathroom but now my tenant tells me she can smell it in the kitchen sink and in the downstairs bathroom sink. When I lived in the house myself, there was never a smell coming from the sinks, only in the upstairs bathroom and occasionally the downstairs hall (where there are no drains).
I've checked for dead rats in the roof space and there have been a couple of bags of poison up there from when I first moved in but they are not even slightly nibbled.
The house is on its own land out in the countryside but the neighbours soakaway runs into a ditch about five or six hundred yards up the road from my house and the water runs into a drain just on the other side of the hedge outside my front door, into a pipe which runs under the road and into a ditch on the other side. I wondered if perhaps that might have something to with the problem as my builder said he noticed a bad smell coming from their ditch on a couple of occasions.
One plumber came to look and said the problem might be that there were no gullies but my builder assures me that gullies were put in with the new system. the plumber also suggested the new system should have had a valve put in, to stop water running back towards the house. But my builder says only town systems need valves and there is no way sewage is running back towards the house. he even lifted the manholes to check and they are all dry with not a hint of a smell. That new system was only installed about three weeks ago.
Really hope to hear from someone
Juliet
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