Thanks all of you for your help. I may have found the problem, the solid waste from our toilet is not always reaching the actual sewer, just sitting under the manhole cover! This may be causing bad smells getting in to the house. The waste matter only moves down the sewer when I pour water...
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hope you can help. I have a bad drain smell coming through the plug hole from the kitchen sink. It happens after the water from the sink has been emptied. The trap is clear. I have cleaned the pipes but the smell keeps coming back. Is there an air lock causing foul smells to get through the...
To all, sorry about the pictures being the wrong way! I took them in portrait mode to get all of the pipes in view but when they were uploaded the pictures were changed to landscape mode!
Hi Stem
thanks for the reply. Yes there is a u bend inside the garage next to the washing machine like your diagram. I can't see anything wrong with the pipe arrangement but I dont know anything about the black boss pipe in my picture, not sure if it needs to be vented like the normal outside...
Can anyone help? We have a washing machine in the garage and the waste water drains outside (white pipe in picture) to an external boss pipe which also drains a downstairs toilet (never used for solid waste!). There is a bad drain smell after the washing machine empties (it is a new washing...
Essex flange sounds a good solution, can you buy a kit which includes all of the stuff needed, e.g cutter and seals and where can I buy one, I live in Durham. B&Q dont stock them nor Plumb Centre
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