Recent content by Lmnop77

Thanks for your response. It certainly will be left for a few weeks at the very least before we spend any money on it. We're being very careful about what goes in, as are our neighbours. It should only require an annual desludge, but there was a suspicion that the tank had been flooded due...

Thanks for all the responses. There are two open soil vent pipes, installed in the 50s when the house was built. According to the manufacturer and the installer, this should be enough, however, we had a couple of engineers visiting (family), who were sure it was not enough in our situation...

It's about 6 metres from the house. The smell is definitely from the tank lid rather than the soil vent pipe. We asked the manufacturer about it, but they were adamant that no smell should come from the lid, even though it is not sealed. However, they were unable the explain how this works...

Only 2 months ago. We think the smell is coming from the raw sewage in the primary tank, rather than digestion process. We had it emptied on the suggestion of the installer, who thought it had been flooded. However, it became obvious that he was trying to fob us off, and we still have smells...

We have recently had a Falcon sewage treatment plant installed in our garden, and are being plagued with the smell of sewage. We had the tank emptied and de-sludged a few days ago, but the smell is back. There are two soil vents on the system, one for each of the houses connected, so we are...