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SOLVED.. Nige F is a clairvoyant. it was a dead rat. I've had no smells for 3 weeks now. I took up the floorboards again today, 4 weeks after my last post. Nice dead rat waiting for me in the trap just as an aside, the smell was only bad for about ten days, reaching a peak and then totally...

thanks for the replies guys. the landscaper is coming back to have a look at it - I think the flags are being replaced - rust from oxidsation and the front drive maybe just waterlogged. he's taking another look. many thanks

Hi all. I've recently had my front drive paved. It's a steep slope. In one patch, after rainfall, it gets very discoloured and mucky looking. Almost like the ground underneath is waterlogged and the water is rising up. What can I do to fix it? House and pipes underneath have been tested. No...

I can't believe I'm updating this but I still seem to have new problems - and now I'm really out of ideas. since the pipe was capped there appears to be a general odour that's in the house. present in the bathroom and hallway and all over really apart from bedrooms. All I'm certain about...

good to know, many thanks.

Thanks again mate. But when you say common to remove interceptor, you mean remove and not replace with any sort of trap at all? So it's supposed to be completely straight?

Hi, I recently had a very old interceptor trap removed. It was replaced with a straight run of pipe connected directly to the mains sewer. So my waste pipe is now connected to the mains sewer on a straight run, with no trap or interceptor. Is this how it should be done? Asking because my...

EDIT - SOLVED Just wanted to say thanks for everyone's help and offers of advice. For anyone who's interested: In a fit of desperation I had the skirting boards off and lifted up the pristine engineered wood floor, insulation, floorboards etc.. to find that one of the brand new pipe that...

Thanks Nige - appreciate your help. The manhole is outside though and the only way in would be through the new extension which is solid walls and a concrete sub under tiles.. I've bought some smoke pellets to see if I can locate the problem trap (if that's what it is..).

Thanks Nige, I checked at the bottom of each r/w pipe, there are two coming off the roof at the back - both have gullies filled with water (they did before the recent rainfall too).

Understood. Thanks for explaining So then it's still a case of locating the trap or problem pipe work - which everyone has been unable to do so far Thanks again.

My rain water and foul are combined - I only have one main pipe into the sewer mains. But what's the effect of that? I mean how does knowing that help me in terms of a solution ?

EDIT - I couldn't get a reliable plumber to show up before the dry weather ended.. and now it's been raining on and off, the smell has disappeared. If anyone can offer an explanation as to why rain water has such a direct effect please, please let me know! I just cannot understand how it...

ok, thanks I'm going to get all the traps checked for induced siphonage.

Thanks - the smoke test wasn't really conclusive either way. First of all, the smoke was placed at the bottom of the stack (using an inspection panel) and the pipe below it was bunged. No smoke appeared or could be smelled anywhere in the property - however, I couldn't see it coming out of...

I guess they came in through the uncapped junction or one of the holes in the main pipe. It is resin you're right. They have caused a stink, which is still localised in the toilet area. Repeated bleach and scrubbing hasn't got rid of it yet! But the other HS2 smell is definitely different...

i'm not sure to be honest - the toilet floor is tiled, but I think there's a void beneath. I could remove a section - I'd do anything at this point - but I've had 3 separate camera surveys - and I'm about to get one company back to do another - so we've had a good look at the pipework. See...

Update: I'm still getting the cabbage / sewer smells on a daily basis - as before they only come first thing in the morning in the kitchen, downstairs toilet and now upstairs toilet. They disappear as soon as I open a window. What's new and I didn't mention in my first post is that the...

thanks I will have it checked. for what it's worth all the pipe work inside is under 5 yrs old and the old mains pipe is now re-lined. I just don't know why non one can find the source. The smell is only there in the morning and it's only briefly there - so its an emission from somewhere...

Well, only the main pipe was relined. The junction off the main pipe which then leads to the toilet wasn't. But it didn't leak when he tested this section for leaks with a bung. I'm clueless about this but how can smoke get through if there's no leak? Either way I'll get another smoke test...