Recent content by Jamesdiynot

Thanks Hugh, very helpful.

The bathroom floor is suspended and the stack is in the basement. The waste pipe you can see is the bath waste and this goes through the wall to the lean-to where the washing machine joins it. Thats the pipe in the below picture going along the wall to the gully. The smaller pipe...

Thanks Hugh Shoudnt really have used the term damp. Its just splash back from the bath/washing machine hitting the grid. That would be easy fixed but the smell is the real problem even with keeping the gully clean. Think its the heat evaporating the waste water when the lean-to is closed up...

Purchased a 1930's bungalow with a lean-to on the bath room wall. The bungalow has a two pipe drainage system. WC directly to manhole and all other waste to gully. There is a vent pipe outside. Now the bathroom basin and bath waste come out through the bathroom wall into the gully that is...