We've lived here over 6 years now, had the house built. We live in the country with well water and a engineered septic field. September, we had the tank cleaned out because we were coming out of the top. Two weeks later, we were full again. Had our local septic cleaning engineers out to find the problem, and they found a clasped pipe- the one that goes from the tank out into the field. They replaced it and since then we've had foul smell in our basement and house! We've tested everything... had the lids off the tank to measure the water going out, how much time it took to go down, pin pointing where the smell is coming from, and cleaned out every trap and pipe we have.
What we've detected so far, is the septic tank in the morning is about 5-6" below the pipe going into the house. If I do a lot, of laundry it gets filled rather quickly, including baths- about 1" from pipe and then even into the pipe... it isn't taking much for the smell to start though. The water in the tank gets displased out into the field in a matter of hours, but smell still lingers. Talking to the Septic Co. it's acting as a normal field. Please remember we use a lot of water and we dug holes, in our yard, on the septic field to see if there was any standing water and everything is dry.
Our attention was directed inside and we went up on the roof and ran snakes down through the pipes, cleaned traps, even took the lids off the tank again, plugged up the pipe with a towel and ran a hose down the roof stink pipe to see if there were any leaks. Didn't find any. Lids went back on the tank, everything put back, and the smell is gone for a couple of days. We have been through this house twice now - we're smelling again.
But, found out our upstairs bathroom, the kitchen sink, dishwasher, downstrairs 1/2 bath and washing machine are basically on 1 stink pipe. If I run the washing machine about 4 loads, back to back, then we are smelling. It's comnig through my dishwasher, kitchen sink, smells in basement, and laundry area. I think I can even smell it in the wall going upstairs even though that upstairs bath doesn't smell. However, I have pinpointed the washing machine use to be the main cuplerate.
Please help! Why would this start after a pipe outside was replaced? What could be wrong? We are so worried!
What we've detected so far, is the septic tank in the morning is about 5-6" below the pipe going into the house. If I do a lot, of laundry it gets filled rather quickly, including baths- about 1" from pipe and then even into the pipe... it isn't taking much for the smell to start though. The water in the tank gets displased out into the field in a matter of hours, but smell still lingers. Talking to the Septic Co. it's acting as a normal field. Please remember we use a lot of water and we dug holes, in our yard, on the septic field to see if there was any standing water and everything is dry.
Our attention was directed inside and we went up on the roof and ran snakes down through the pipes, cleaned traps, even took the lids off the tank again, plugged up the pipe with a towel and ran a hose down the roof stink pipe to see if there were any leaks. Didn't find any. Lids went back on the tank, everything put back, and the smell is gone for a couple of days. We have been through this house twice now - we're smelling again.
But, found out our upstairs bathroom, the kitchen sink, dishwasher, downstrairs 1/2 bath and washing machine are basically on 1 stink pipe. If I run the washing machine about 4 loads, back to back, then we are smelling. It's comnig through my dishwasher, kitchen sink, smells in basement, and laundry area. I think I can even smell it in the wall going upstairs even though that upstairs bath doesn't smell. However, I have pinpointed the washing machine use to be the main cuplerate.
Please help! Why would this start after a pipe outside was replaced? What could be wrong? We are so worried!
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