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    Stagnant water under suspended floorboards

    We live in a 1931 semi with suspended timber floors in the living room/dining room. We have lived here for 11 years with no previous problems of this kind. Last month we detected a foul smell coming from under the floorboards in these rooms (it smelt like sewage). There are no pipes under the...
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    sulphur smell in sitting room

    Right we've had some floorboards up today and my husband has found a pool of water under the dinign room floor. The central heating system seems okay and the adjacent radiator doesn't seem to be leaking. We've been in this house for 11 years with no previous problem of this nature. Our garden...
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    sulphur smell in sitting room

    Thanks for continued answers No, we are not losing pressure from the boiler. The CH and hot water systems appear to be functioning normally. We have no drains running under the room in question. We have a cavity underneath as it's floorboards. We have wondered whether an animal has found...
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    sulphur smell in sitting room

    In answer to questions the smell is like bad eggs and no, we don't live with an elderly relative or an incontinent animal. We have a long sitting room/dining room (used to be two rooms). There is a radiator in each half of the room. The smell was originally confined to the front half of...
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    sulphur smell in sitting room

    This started three weeks ago. We only noticed it once then nothing again. Yesterday and today the problem is back. We have a combi boiler in the kitchen which is four years old but the smell doesn't come from here. The smell seems to be in the corner of the room. We have a radiator on that...
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