Recent content by NandoDave

Sorry if it was unclear. I'm pretty sure the dishwasher is connected into a different soil stack which goes up to the main bathroom. That soil stack has a siphoning problem in the main bathroom, but this issue seems to be related to sewer smells somehow entering the kitchen. They're probably all...

Hi folks, Looking to get some opinions to ensure I'm not missing something before I engage with my landlord about a problem I'm having with a stinky kitchen. We're getting intermittently smelly kitchen, broadly a 'light' sewage smell. I took the skirt off the kitchen base units to track where...

Indeed. I wanted to ensure I was on firm enough ground to make clear the current setup needs to be looked at. Having further investigated, it would appear the kitchen sink and this standpipe are both draining into a rainwater soakaway outside the house so I think a more major problem might...

Thanks - the standpipe looks ok. It looks like a washing machine standpipe that it has been decided to use that for the dishwasher instead of hooking the dishwasher into the sink which is next door to the other side. When you say a vented fitting is required, what are the problems associated...

Just moved into a new rental house, the washing machine needed a repair on moving in and clearly hasn't been used much. Once the repair was complete, two washes in I had a flooded kitchen floor. Pulled the washer out to find the waste connection had popped off (which is attached to a Y adaptor...