smell

Hi, any advice would be greatly appreciated. I've noticed a soil/waste smell coming from the en-suite for a few months. Most of the time it's quite faint but on occasions it can be quite noticeable. I think I've narrowed it down to an open stack pipe which vents directly into the loft above the...

Hello all! First time poster: I have a semi-detached house in a high water table area and I noticed that under the suspended wooden ground floor there was some standing water. I carried out some investigation and it appears that more water flows into the crawl space (approx 4ft high) in when...

Hi! I was wondering if someone knows what to do with an indesit washer dryer that is driving me nuts. The machine is in a small cupboard, and every time I open the cupboard door, my bedroom is inundated with a very strong "soapy" smell. It smells like soap scum. I've already ran about 7 cycles...

Hi all, We live in the middle floor of a three story block of flats. In our bathroom behind the toilet we have a panel where the soil pipe runs and all our waste pipes run to. We have always had a musty smell that we could smell every now and then in the bathroom but wasn’t ever that bad...

Folks, I have two unrelated (i think) mysteries that are driving me mad and I’m looking for your help. 1) At night, in the winter, when we flush the toilet, empty the sink or bath in the bathroom, which is right next to our bedroom, there are bad pipe knocking sounds that appear to...

hello we have a musty smell behind dish washer when its raining. its a 70s semi (ex council ) stone walls no insulation . new kitchen put in by past owner a few years ago what is the best course of action? we did bring a damp guy a we had a wet wall in the hallway and he diagnosed condensation...

Hope this is the right section of this vast forum. So in my storage cupboard, there has been a leak from a pipe that runs through it. A plumber has replaced the pipe so I am pretty sure the leak is gone. However, this wasn't done immediately so the leak has gone into the wall (the wall is...

Hi all, I seem to have a problem with the smell of sewage in my house and I believe it's from the soil pipe that runs internal into the house. The downstairs toilet is connected to this and the en suite is directly above it connecting to the same soil pipe. I used some insulation around where...

Hi all, We have a downstairs bathroom with toilet, basin and shower. The toilet is fitted with a Durgo valve. The downstairs bathroom is an extension to the house which was fitted probably 15-20 years ago. We have noticed over the last few months that sometimes a foul smell (its not me...

I recently purchased a new house. Everything is fine except; I noticed the bathroom (which is upstairs) had an odd smell; somewhere between rotten wood and rotten meat, or maybe waste. My first thought was that the floorboards were rotten. Admittedly the bathroom floor slopes significantly but...

About a year ago I had a leak in the bathroom - this seeped through to the bedroom next door and caused mould under stacked boxes and behind the wardrobe. The leak was fixed, the carpet pulled up and concrete dried; a new carpet was laid. The carpet fitter assured me that the concrete was dry...

We've had an AAV fitted in our upstairs bathroom - but I'm convinced something is not right with the plumbing/connections somewhere as most days there is an awful smell coming from the room - like we have a direct link to the main sewers!! We've had a few plumbers round but nobody has been able...

I've moved into a property and been here 6 months and in the last 6 weeks noticed a smell coming from a corner of the conservatory. Lifted the floor up which has a concrete base, beams resting on top with mdf on top of that then tiled. Strangely when I lifted the floor in the corner I can see...

Cleaned out our Iron Steam Generator, with a mixture or Limescale cleaner, and lemon juice as a natural way to get rid of the limescale build up. Worked a treat and its never been more powerful, however the steam and iron now smells with a weird fusty smell? Any simple tips on removing this...

Hi there. We've got a problem with cigarette smoke coming from our neighbours house, we live in a terraced cottage. Every night when they come home we start to smell smoke after a while in our living room, we don't actually see smoke but can distinctly smell cigarette smoke. Not pleasant as...