A mate of mine bought a cheap repossessed house.
It had a downstairs bathroom which smelled of damp due to lack of ventilation but after 12 months the damp and smell were getting worse and the toilet was not working. We pulled up the carpet which proved to be rotten, and the floor boards had the consistency of balsa wood!
Removing the floor boards left him us speechless! The previous owner had moved the toilet, and the waste pipe which required 3 x 90 degree bends which we presumed he did not have as he laid the plastic pipe on the dirt below the floorboards and then lumped concrete wherever a bend was required!
Astoundingly this worked for a while but the joins wept and started leaking and filled the floor void with raw sewage! Even more astounding was that the smell was not as bad as it could have been,once the floor was lifted!
Needless to say a competent plumber was called who sorted the drains out and my mate had a happy time cleaning the floor void before replacing the entire floor and all that.
It had a downstairs bathroom which smelled of damp due to lack of ventilation but after 12 months the damp and smell were getting worse and the toilet was not working. We pulled up the carpet which proved to be rotten, and the floor boards had the consistency of balsa wood!
Removing the floor boards left him us speechless! The previous owner had moved the toilet, and the waste pipe which required 3 x 90 degree bends which we presumed he did not have as he laid the plastic pipe on the dirt below the floorboards and then lumped concrete wherever a bend was required!
Astoundingly this worked for a while but the joins wept and started leaking and filled the floor void with raw sewage! Even more astounding was that the smell was not as bad as it could have been,once the floor was lifted!
Needless to say a competent plumber was called who sorted the drains out and my mate had a happy time cleaning the floor void before replacing the entire floor and all that.
