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Hi,
This is my first time posting. This is a long story but I will try and stick to pertinent points!
Back at start of May, I noticed a foul smell in ground floor of my house. To cut a long story short, theres a long waste pipe that runs from the back to front of the house. There had been a failure in pipe near front of house (i.e. raw sewage from cloackroom toilet was spilling on subfloor) and unbelieveably there was a failure near the complete opposite end of the waste pipe at back of the house where the stack from upstairs ensuite had disconnected from main pipe (again, sewage, waste water etc, spilling all over the floor). The two areas have been santised and cleaned professionally.
However, I can still smell a rather unpleasant smell downstairs. Its not necessarily a raw sewage smell - its a musty, sour, foosty smell maybe with a hint of sewage underneath it. If I lift the panels in the access hatch and stick my head down in sub floor, it really does smell down there. The smell is coming from subfloor.
The people who have been doing the work insist theres no more sewage down there (Im pretty sure they havent checked the whole length of the pipe but maybe 85% of it). They also say as theres no more flies down there, that points to no more sewage. But if it isnt sewage, then what could smell be!? One of the guys who have been working in the house suggested the bricks have absorbed contaminated material and thats the smell? So, do I just have to live with that??
The insurance have instructed a drains specialist to come out and survey the pipes in case theres a crack and thats how odours are escpaing. I'm worried they dont find the source then Im going to be told to live with it (and I cant!).
Ive definetly summarised here because its been a long 4 months with lots of plumbers out at my house but I think thats the main story so far. Any thoughts, help or advice anyone has to offer will be gratefully recieved. Thanks!
This is my first time posting. This is a long story but I will try and stick to pertinent points!
Back at start of May, I noticed a foul smell in ground floor of my house. To cut a long story short, theres a long waste pipe that runs from the back to front of the house. There had been a failure in pipe near front of house (i.e. raw sewage from cloackroom toilet was spilling on subfloor) and unbelieveably there was a failure near the complete opposite end of the waste pipe at back of the house where the stack from upstairs ensuite had disconnected from main pipe (again, sewage, waste water etc, spilling all over the floor). The two areas have been santised and cleaned professionally.
However, I can still smell a rather unpleasant smell downstairs. Its not necessarily a raw sewage smell - its a musty, sour, foosty smell maybe with a hint of sewage underneath it. If I lift the panels in the access hatch and stick my head down in sub floor, it really does smell down there. The smell is coming from subfloor.
The people who have been doing the work insist theres no more sewage down there (Im pretty sure they havent checked the whole length of the pipe but maybe 85% of it). They also say as theres no more flies down there, that points to no more sewage. But if it isnt sewage, then what could smell be!? One of the guys who have been working in the house suggested the bricks have absorbed contaminated material and thats the smell? So, do I just have to live with that??
The insurance have instructed a drains specialist to come out and survey the pipes in case theres a crack and thats how odours are escpaing. I'm worried they dont find the source then Im going to be told to live with it (and I cant!).
Ive definetly summarised here because its been a long 4 months with lots of plumbers out at my house but I think thats the main story so far. Any thoughts, help or advice anyone has to offer will be gratefully recieved. Thanks!
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