Recent content by mike_ppyv

You'll have to explain the significance as we are surely not close enough for any of those things you mention to be causing the smell in our property but not others around!

Harry Bloomfield - OK good idea, perhaps we will track down a meal detector or get a powerful magnet (I have heard some people try that technique)

Victorian terrace in north east London suburb, so late 1800's. Not particularly near any of the above. There are no working drains (at least in our property) that are under the kitchen so it would have to be leaking from an unused capped drain under the kitchen floor (where we think there might...

In which case I guess a drain survey would at least help us identify where the manhole might be buried....? How would the smell be leaking from a manhole into the house when the manhole was outside the property and is now buried in (what I assume is) a concrete floor? It's a mystery to me. The...

Unfortunately the manhole is buried under the kitchen floor (if there even is one, we are not sure) so we can't do that without making a very costly mess. The sink traps are properly installed (we had them replaced) but the smell is certainly not coming from the waste water in the kitchen anyway

Help! We moved into a Victorian terraced house a year ago and have had an intermittent bad drain like smell ever since. It has been intermittent over the year but was bad when we moved in and again now. Some details on our house: - The kitchen was extended into the side return in 2008, and as...

I've filled some socket holes in walls in a victorian house using undercoat plaster (essentially bonding plaster from what I understood!). The holes are either around existing sockets where the electricians knocked loads of plaster our, or fillig a removed docket in a lath wall. They are around...