Victoriana
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Hi
I live in an your typical 1895 midd Victorian terrace house, 3 beds upstairs and a 1987 side bathroom extension beside the kitchen downstairs.
I moved in late Nov 2005. Apart from a whole host of previos bad DIY that needed rectifying, nothing much bothered me. Now for the last 10 months I get transient bad odours / smells emerging from beneath the floor boards from various spots around the living room, dinning room and occasionally the hallway.
One afternoon I came back home to a smell in the house that would be reminiscent of tipping out your festering house rubbish inside. Then there was lull, but recently these these smells have been coming back and lingering with varying amount of time and intensity.
This has also coincided with a sulpher type smell which comes from the downstars toilet after flushing. Not sure if these smells are connected?
I thought at first the smell might have been a decompossing mouse / rat? But as it keeps coming back and then disappearing, I do not know what to make of it.
The only other thing that was out of the ordinary was the stench pipe at the back of the bathroom extension that was strangley very short and capped off. I had it opened and extended but seems to made no difference.
In the front garden I also have a low lying vent which seems to 'belch' smells consistently, so it does not appear blocked? There is a man-hole cover too, but have not attempted removel as it is the type that is full of block paving and is no doubt hefty and wedged in.
Before I call out some drainage engineers, I was wondering whether any other members of this forum had experienced anything similar?
Cheers!
I live in an your typical 1895 midd Victorian terrace house, 3 beds upstairs and a 1987 side bathroom extension beside the kitchen downstairs.
I moved in late Nov 2005. Apart from a whole host of previos bad DIY that needed rectifying, nothing much bothered me. Now for the last 10 months I get transient bad odours / smells emerging from beneath the floor boards from various spots around the living room, dinning room and occasionally the hallway.
One afternoon I came back home to a smell in the house that would be reminiscent of tipping out your festering house rubbish inside. Then there was lull, but recently these these smells have been coming back and lingering with varying amount of time and intensity.
This has also coincided with a sulpher type smell which comes from the downstars toilet after flushing. Not sure if these smells are connected?
I thought at first the smell might have been a decompossing mouse / rat? But as it keeps coming back and then disappearing, I do not know what to make of it.
The only other thing that was out of the ordinary was the stench pipe at the back of the bathroom extension that was strangley very short and capped off. I had it opened and extended but seems to made no difference.
In the front garden I also have a low lying vent which seems to 'belch' smells consistently, so it does not appear blocked? There is a man-hole cover too, but have not attempted removel as it is the type that is full of block paving and is no doubt hefty and wedged in.
Before I call out some drainage engineers, I was wondering whether any other members of this forum had experienced anything similar?
Cheers!