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John, Thanks for your help. If you ever want to know how to make a decent lemon drizzle cake I'm your girl!! Bye, Monica.

No, I don't believe there is any leak anywhere as it would be apparent either on the ceiling below, or somewhere in the bathroom. The underfloor AAV was put there during the refurb 2 years ago, and I think the up-the-chimney one was too. Up until last weekend, we had no SVP out of the roof so...

This is where I begin to get out of my depth as I know we have a soil pipe on the right hand side of the bathroom going to the septic tank - and the chimney is on the LHS of the bathroom. It is behind the boxing for the bath and when we took out the underfloor AAV, my builder told me as far as...

John, I don't believe there is a SVP (soil vent pipe?) up the chimney, just an AAV. We have installed an SVP from the third floor attic bathroom, up through the roof and out into the atmosphere. This seems to have stopped the hideous gassy smell, but instead we now have the stagnant smell...

Thanks for the reply. We had the under-the-floor AAV removed but I am pretty sure there is one positioned up the chimney in the bathroom. It is a victorian farmhouse, so most rooms have open chimneys. Interestingly, the smell has been coming and going for two years now, immediately after a...

Thanks Burnerman. I will have to get a plumber to check those connections...trouble is the bathroom is tiled with limestone tiles, all around the bath boxing etc. Nightmare...this is why we are trying to sort it without taking the sledgehammer to everything. I am now going out and will check...

Hugh, thanks for your post. This is all a bit technical for me.... we are a family of 4 using the tank for every bit of waste and water from the house. The tank has a soakway into a field at the back of our house (I think!!). Again, we inherited it when we bought the house and have no idea...

Lord Bothwell, Thanks for your reply. I am a complete novice where septic tanks are concerned and thought an annual clearout was a good thing. Obviously, I have misunderstood. So I am better to leave the tank alone if it is working? Are those bio/bacteria things worth investing in? We do...

I spent ages in the builders merchants trying to get a new frame and cover but the only one they could get had only one large hole plus one smaller hole for a (I guess) 4" pipe to stick through. My current frame plus cover has a large hole, about 18" or 24" wide, plus two separate 4" pipes...

I have no idea. It is emptied annually, altho when we bought the house we were told that it could be done every 2 to 3 years. We prefer to keep it cleaned regularly. All the waste goes into it as we have no mains drains at all. It is an old klargester type, with a plastic diamond shaped...

Thanks for that. I inherited the septic tank with the house so the builder is not responsible (and is an ace bloke who I know and trust 100%). As I said, we have tried putting a vent pipe from the water pipes (not the soil stack) in the attic bathroom, through the roof, but the gas smell has...

I have a victorian house with a septic tank - a large tank with soakaway. My main bathroom's has an intermittent smell of sewer gas. We've removed an AAV from under the floorboards believing it to be the problem. A second AAV exists in the chimney stack of the bathroom. The smell...