sewage

I've had a Franke 1.5 sink fitted recently using their siphon 2 plumbing kit as part of a new kitchen installation. However, I now regularly get sewage smells coming into my kitchen. I was wondering whether the air vent has been installed in the correct position. Should it be installed in the...

We think that this is connected with the upstairs loo, the boxed in waste pipe comes through the spare room and then out the house. There is also a downstairs loo at the same end of the house There's a poo smell, but really only happens in the early hours. It's not connected with anyone...

Morning - I am after some advice if anyone can help at all. 3 days ago after 2 weeks on holiday we can home to find a sewage leak in our flat. The toilet had overflowed and raw sewage pumped into the whole apartment and had been sitting there for several days. We live in a 4 year old block of...

Hi all, I have a sewage pump that I want to add hard pipe to to allow easy fitting and removal. The picture shows the fitting that is screwed into the pump, I need this fitting on the end of a 1.5m pipe at right angles to the pump. I have seen a heavy duty grey type pipe used for this but I...

I'm handy, but not much plumbing experience. Firstly, if I go under my house the toilet PVC line goes into the ground with a "pyramid" cement casing around it. What is that called? I want to google the best way to cut through it without damaging any pipes but don't event know the name of it. I...

Hello, We have had a bad sewage smell coming from the downstairs toilet for the last few years. We had a new suite put in back in 2019 which didn't resolve the issue. The smell seems to be coming from the sink side of the room. I have removed the sink unit now and can see that the waste pipe...

Hi there, I was hoping to get some advice on my DIY drain surveillance after suspecting our sewer pipe is the cause of some damp issues we're having (damp wall adjacent to downpipe). I bought a cheap inspection camera so excuse the bad camera angles but think I caught the problem? - the...

Hello My daughter's Indesit Washing Machine is repeatedly filling with sewage and toilet paper up to approximately half way up the drum. She lives in a basement flat with 3 other flats above. She has had numerous Drainage Experts and Plumbers out under the British Gas Homecare Agreement who...

Hi, I'm hoping someone might be able to give me some advice. I'm in a semi detached, and unfortunately our neighbour's pipework all connects to ours. We've been getting a couple of issues with the plumbing ever since he put in a saniflo downstairs 5 years ago (unfortunately he is awful and can't...

Hi all, I've just moved into a house a few months ago, built around 2005. One of the toilets upstairs had a very weak flush so I raised the level of water in the cistern and to my horror a small amount of dirty water/sewrage came up through the shower drain. I think it's been a problem all...

I’m looking for quotations to install a new package treatment unit for a new-build 4 bed house (with potential annexe) and associated outflow to either infiltration field, or to the dyke that runs alongside the plot. The house will not be completed for some time, but in the interim the plant...

I do not know anymore.i bought a home.in spain.top floor(4rth floor) I get a horrid stink in my apartment every time thebperson Below me does Laundry. Our washers are in the kitchen. So i have taken the pipes apart and they were clean inside. The smell NEVER comes from the sink but always is...

We have various smells - usually sewage - coming from our bathroom occasionally. Sometimes every day then nothing for a week or two. It's a second/top floor flat and the smells come from the main bathroom wihch shares the soil pipe with floors below. We have checked all of the traps (sink, bath...

Hello, In Greece, most of the residential buildings have narrow sewage pipes. In a specific building, people throw paper in the toilet (even if it is prohibited) and this usually clogs the pipe between the visit hole and the sewage. As a result, we have to bring a machine to unclog the pipe...

We are building a new home in Pakistan and plan to have a basement with guest room and full bath. It being a guest room won't see much action most of the year. Two different plumbing guys told me that sewage sludge/ejector pumps for basement sewage pit breakdown if not used frequently, so...

About 2 months ago I had a plumber out to remedy a rocking toilet. He pulled the toilet, noted the flange was 1 -2 inches low. He replaced the toilet and left saying he had to get approval for the repair. That night my shower wouldn't drain an the toilet was bubbling air while the shower was...

So, we moved into a new build a couple of years ago, and a few times now, we have been woken to the smell of sewer gas in our house. The problem seems to be a rubber bung in the kitchen floor under the kickboard, it connects the sink to a 4" sewage pipe, and it pops out periodically. It also...

any help would be gratefully accepted. We’ve had a single storey extension to the rear with toilet. Now we have a strange sewage like odour coming from behind the kitchen sink but not this side of the trap. The sink waste along with the new bathroom waste all now go into the soil pipe which in...

Hi, Please forgive my lack of experience. I am a relatively new homeowner to a fairly old semi-detached property. For the last two months, we have had a HORRIBLE smell of what smells like raw sewage to me that comes and goes, on and off but getting worse on the ground floor of our property...

Hi all, Sorry if this is in the wrong place. I’m after some advice/information about the above. Does anyone have one of these or offers this service? What sort of contract do you offer/have. Are call outs charged separately. Does the company charge mileage. I’m looking at starting to offer...