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Post by wetfinger on Aug 15, 2019 20:40:58 GMT
Alright guys I've sorted this now but guess what it was?
100 year old terrace, tiled in bath panel, bad smell comes and goes but worse in the cupboard next to the bathroom.
Bathroom redone around 10 years ago...
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Post by tomplum on Aug 15, 2019 20:54:22 GMT
wild guess, leaking trap, ??
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Post by wetfinger on Aug 15, 2019 21:19:28 GMT
Well, I looked down the plug hole and saw no water just an elbow fitting so I thought mmm... I cut out a section of bath panel tiles on the other end behind the bin (2 sides tiled) and stuck my head and torch under the bath and saw the bath waste had a fanny trap on with the knuckle elbow so I thought right that's it. I said it will be blocked with hair and not fully closing. I returned in a weeks time to slice into the main side of the bath panel and to fit one of those all in one trap/waste Mcalpine jobbies as the old waste was broken anyway and I examined the fanny trap to see hair but not as much as I expected and the lips were more or less closed . Got the water running and tested for leaks and then looked to the outside wall to see a dirty great 1 1/2" lead pipe hanging out of the wall open ended, I thought surely not and I looked out of the window at the stack and it had two lead waste pipes cemented into a cast iron Y junction but the bath and the basin were only sharing one and the other one was venting under the bath. The main stack even had a Durgo on top from when some guys last year put a shower room upstairs. I capped it off outside and tested all the toilets and they were okay. The smell had driven her crazy for 2 years since she moved and and came and went apparantly, it makes sense now it was worse in the cupboard as the smell was going under the floor.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2019 21:32:01 GMT
Well done wetfinger (columbo)
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Post by tomplum on Aug 15, 2019 21:54:16 GMT
thats plumbing for ya, well done wetfinger
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