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SimbaM
Neighbour can smell sewage from our toilet.
A very smelly problem – our neighbour can smell sewage from our toilet. We live in a semi-detached 1950s house. We can smell nothing. Our neighbour has tried really hard to investigate the problem, but can’t get to the bottom of it and it's really getting him down. We want to help resolve the issue. I wonder if anyone on this forum might be able to offer some help.
Our neighbour says that when we flush the toilet smell is overpowering - he can also smell when cleaning products are being used. So far, the neighbour has:
• Contacted 3 x plumbers, none were able to offer advice and/or solution
• He has had the drain looked at, but the person was not familiar with the system and unable to help
• A Building Inspector friend has suggested it could be a split in his soil pipe (the one that bridges the interior and exterior walls) that could be allowing smell from the drains to pass into the cavity. He recommended using a builder not a plumber for the work
• A builder has removed a brick near soil pipe and inspected his soil pipe from inside the cavity. He said there was no obvious smell. He blocked off the drain from shared down pipe and used a smoke pellet (via top of soil stack) to check for leakage, there was no result.
Does anyone have any ideas to steer us into sorting this out? We don’t know if we need a plumber, builder or someone other speciality service. Can you help?!
A very smelly problem – our neighbour can smell sewage from our toilet. We live in a semi-detached 1950s house. We can smell nothing. Our neighbour has tried really hard to investigate the problem, but can’t get to the bottom of it and it's really getting him down. We want to help resolve the issue. I wonder if anyone on this forum might be able to offer some help.
Our neighbour says that when we flush the toilet smell is overpowering - he can also smell when cleaning products are being used. So far, the neighbour has:
• Contacted 3 x plumbers, none were able to offer advice and/or solution
• He has had the drain looked at, but the person was not familiar with the system and unable to help
• A Building Inspector friend has suggested it could be a split in his soil pipe (the one that bridges the interior and exterior walls) that could be allowing smell from the drains to pass into the cavity. He recommended using a builder not a plumber for the work
• A builder has removed a brick near soil pipe and inspected his soil pipe from inside the cavity. He said there was no obvious smell. He blocked off the drain from shared down pipe and used a smoke pellet (via top of soil stack) to check for leakage, there was no result.
Does anyone have any ideas to steer us into sorting this out? We don’t know if we need a plumber, builder or someone other speciality service. Can you help?!
