Recent content by abaminog

Yes, we never use the shower on the 2nd floor (where the pong is most persistent). I can pour some water down the drain in that shower to fill the trap up if that's the problem. Is that how you fill it back up?

I don't think so.

It's more or less constant but I can't say whether it gets better/worse with weather/water consumption etc.

I am probably looking the wrong way but I can't find my soil pipe to inspect it! Could it be that it's hidden and getting access to it is not that easy? The house is relatively new (9 yrs), so they may have done a good job hiding things you don't usually want to see.

I live in a 3-storey house with 4 bathrooms. Recently I started noticing a quite unpleasant smell in the bathrooms on the 1st and 2nd floors. It seems to be coming from the toilet but, as we do keep our toilets and bathrooms very clean, the only likely source of that smell must be the soil pipe...

Hello! I have decided to replace my old gas boiler (Suprima) and hot water cylinder (Boiler Mate II). As my house is quite large, I have gone for Vaillant Ecotec 637 boiler and Vaillant uniSTORE 260 cylinder. I got an estimate for the whole system replacement (boiler + cylinder) from the guy...