Sewage smell in house???

[Lollipopgirl8]

I get a a sewage smell everytime and only after using hot tap in bathroom. Has been going on for a few months but getting worse.

Smell lasts 10 minutes.

Now noticed a gurgling sound from bath plug hole after using any tap in bathroom and after flushing toilet.

Electric shower independent of all described above.

I have a combi boiler which is in cupboard inside bathroom..

Any ideas??

I get this when I use the washing machine the first time of the day, or the hot tap downstairs. the smell comes from outside though from the drain. stinks like shit. no idea what it is sorry I cant be more helpful

are there U bends fitted? and if so are they installed correctly

could the warm steamy air be being in swamp gas fro your sewage system

You need Piglet John

There should be a special klaxon

"Now noticed a gurgling sound from bath plug hole after using any tap in bathroom and after flushing toilet. "

you probably have a blockage.

If the bathroom was altered after the house was built, it may be that the new pipes were put in badly, for example trying to make water flow uphill.

You can try giving it a clean by spooning Washing Soda Crystals into all the plugholes and overflows, moistening slightly with hot water (but not washing it away) then leaving it overnight and flushing through with hot water. You can then remove traps and U-bends and clean them out in the kitchen sink with hot water and washing soda crystals. Do not use caustic soda.

Meanwhile ask around friends and neighbours for an experienced local plumber. Do not use Yellow Pages. Do not use interweb advertising recommendation sites. Do not ring any 0800 or 0870 number. Only ring a landline number where you can see the code is local.

Thanks so much for your advice so far... Not sure how confident I would be with above suggestions

I will have to call in a plumber I think though didn't have a good experience with another tradesman recommended by my neighbour so will ask at work

Is this potentially serious/expensive??
Do I need to call water company think I might have plumbing and drainage cover somewhere won't that cover it?
Why would only got tap be causing the smell

It is much more coming up through likely the plughole or the overflow than the tap.

However, do you have a hot water cylinder? What colour?

If you get a parish magazine (or look at one in a church porch) or similar they are often a source of long-established local tradesmen and small builders.

We had this recently just after we'd moved into a new (to us) house. It was a sewage blockage. DP lifted the manhole cover outside the back door, and the sewer was .... well ... compacted with 'stuff'. Nasty. He bought some rods from B&Q, donned his best Sunday suit and dealt with it.

He had to go to next doors as well and rod it back up from there, as we were at the start of the sewer, so at least it was mostly our own nasty!!

Also had the gurgling and when I used the washing machine, the smell filled the whole house. Horrid, but it will only get worse if you leave it.

Had similar in this house after we bought it - bathroom looked lovely - big, luxurious...it was a selling point. What I didn't realise was it had been extended as a DIY job by one of the previous owners - who I now call Mr Bodge -it (not just for this I could write an essay)
Found it was generally a bit smelly and things like shower was slow to drain, empty the bath and it gurgled up in the shower...used to stink as well and I used to keep plunging, using drain clearer etc. Toilet was ok though...
Then the bath just wouldn't drain - left it whilst I got DCs to bed etc, then thought I'd leave it overnight but going up to bed at just gone midnight noticed a wet patch on the wall - seems I had a slow leak on section shower to bath as well...which was coming through the wall.
I scooped out as much of the bath water down the loo as much as I could but then ended up crawling into the eaves cupboard (bathroom is in the eaves and lots of the pipework is exposed in there) loosening a join and draining the water left in the massive waste pipe (went shower-bath- basin, mainly 4cm diameter and about 12 m long...really bad design) into a container less than 2 cm deep before transferring to a bucket as it was the only thing I could fit under the pipe...it took ages and absolutely reeked (in an enclosed space) - so bad I kept retching...
When it was drained I took the section of pipe off to just before the soil pipe and found the whole 1m length was completely packed with rotting dog hair . I checked the previous metre the same... third meter wasn't too bad... - we don't have a dog...it had been there for at least a year...
I had to poke it out to clear it - so compacted in there it wouldn't pour/rinse out...
There wasn't enough fall (slope) on the pipe and it was a major job to drop it as the soil pipe is internal and built into the wall - had to get lower access to it through the wall of the room below. And at the same time I found he must have lowered the pipe as far as he could (without going into the wall) previous feed into the stack was higher up and not blocked off at all - so we had an open vent to the stench of the sewer into the eaves ...no wonder it was a bit smelly in the bathroom ...

(And slow leak had to stay for another few years -not bad as long as the water was flowing - as I had to basically cut the bath panel off and take the bath out to get to that bit of pipe...)

After that essay - did meant to say the hot water thing might not be relevant - cold things don't smell as much as hot things...

We've got a similar thing in one of our bathrooms (third floor). Googling has revealed it's either something to do with the water that's supposed to stay in the sink's and bath's trap draining away for some reason (a relatively simy fixed thing), or else Something Bad in the system somewhere, which as so eone said js probably a vent in the wrong place and will be a Nightmare to sort.
Do you have Streetlife in your area? I only discovered it recently but people seem to use it to get recommendations for local trades people.

We suddenly had the ensuite shower drain start to gurgle after we flushed the toilet. We tried all the usual solutions to blocked bathroom pipes - no good. We had a plumber visit and replace the vent on the toilet- no good. We ignored it for months until "stuff" started coming up through our neighbour's manhole cover. Our gurgling was due to a blockage in the main drain six houses away, because of the blockage when we added a flush of water the air it displaced had nowhere to go but back into the bathroom. The main toilet (original to the house) was vented through the roof and as a result flushed with no symptoms.

It took a two man team two days to sort it, we had the camera, dye, jetting snake hose - the lot. So much for me trying to shift it with washing soda. The good news is that it was free.

Guys thanks so much for your personal experiences/advice and Piglet John for your advice too

It does sound like a blockage based on the advice given. I think best bet is get a good plumber and I think I have someone in mind and hopefully it's a simple problem.

I do have home serve insurance plumbing and drainage so might also try that...

I'm too scared to attempt it myself in case I do more damage than good

Icouldbeknitting how did you get it done for free!

shared "common sewer" serving several houses.

It was free because it wasn't under our property. You are responsible for the drain until it meets the shared drain after which the problem belongs to the water board.

www.unitedutilities.com/sewers-and-drains-explained.aspx

I live in a semi and the drain runs across the back of the house about six feet from the back door. As soon as my bit of pipe runs into the pipework that comes from my neighbour's garden it all becomes someone else's problem.

Our blockage was hard work because it was so far away from the only available inspection hatch. None of our neighbours would admit to having an inspection hatch on their property so the drain team couldn't get any nearer to it.

It was a very educational couple of days.

Why would they not admit to the inspection hatch, Icould? There was one at the end of our garden in the last house we lived in - wouldn't have occured to me to deny it. People are weird!

This is a 1980's Wimpy estate and the inspection hatches should be every other house. The next house that should have had one had been empty for months, I looked in their garden (just in case there was sewage running through it) and they had decking about three feet from the ground with piles of rubbish under it. If there was a hatch it wasn't all that accessible. The next house that should have had one also has decking (we are on a hill and the back gardens drop away). I imagine that either they knew they'd covered up the hatch and didn't want to say so or they thought they were going to be stuck with the cost of clearing the blockage.

What the drain team said was that they couldn't understand why there had been no reports from the houses that were downhill from us but uphill from the blockage. My neighbour had a really bad smelling washer, we had a gurgling shower drain but until the cover started seeping we hadn't worked out that it the cause was the main drain. It was eleven months from the first gurgle to getting it sorted, by then I'd tried every drain product out there and my shower drain must have been the cleanest in the country.

I love the water board. We had the smell of white spirit in our downstairs wet room twice. There was a blockage four houses down the road, we are number one in the system. The owner of the house with the blockage who has lived there for over 50 years had been checking the manhole on his driveway believing it was belonging to four houses but when the water board came out they not only cleared the blockage for free but found the pipe that was coming from the other four houses going further down the road. They found out that one of the other houses was pouring white spirit down their drain which you are not supposed to do as it is a chemical and gives of obnoxious fumes. Not had any blockages or fumes since so it makes you wonder what else they was putting in the sewers.

Hi piglet John. I now also have the same problem, and the small room with the smell used to be a former bathroom. Beside it is a hot water tank in a cupboard. Why did you ask what colour it was....? My one is mustard yellow. Would love to know the significance of this. Thank you for helping.

Any advice please ? We renovated house and incorporated an outdoor shed into the house to use as storage cupboard

We think it used to be outside loo as we had flood one year from this cupboard after excessive rain and the mains drain in road had overflowed

Now every time heavy rain we are getting a sewage smell from this cupboard.

Thanks

Welshdee7

Any advice please ? We renovated house and incorporated an outdoor shed into the house to use as storage cupboard

We think it used to be outside loo as we had flood one year from this cupboard after excessive rain and the mains drain in road had overflowed

Now every time heavy rain we are getting a sewage smell from this cupboard.

Thanks