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Can anyone help me with this? I get this smell at low level - around the floor area of ensuite and bedroom floor near the ensuite - intermittently. If you put your nose down close to the ceramic tiles in the bathroom or the skirtings in the bedroom you can smell it. Can a smell come through tiles?? It happens usually when someone has used the shower or occasionally the toilet. I have checked the water traps and they are OK. The quick flow shower outlet only has that drain type smell. I have also taken the lid off the boxing where the soil pipe is. I removed the dirgo valve to check. That smells a bit of drains - different smell - but seems to be OK. We have had the manholes up on the drive to check the drains are flowing properly - they are and they don't smell.

We have no signs of rat or mouse infestation. But this is definitely a poo smell, rather like a bad eggy fart x 100 - sorry to be so graphic, it does not smell like a decaying rat. We sometimes get it downstairs - the downstairs loo is under the ensuite - and it seems worse where the gap is between the skirting boards and laminate floor. Or you walk through a patch of it going up the stairs which are opposite the downstairs loo door.

Anyone got any ideas?
 
A sewer vent that has been left uncapped or not extended through to atmosphere.
It could also be an old branch pipe that has been left open ended
 
A sewer vent that has been left uncapped or not extended through to atmosphere.
It could also be an old branch pipe that has been left open ended
The soil pips/dirgo only goes half way up the ensuite wall, not out of the roof. But I am pretty sure the smell isn't coming out of there. Likely to be the plumbing into and around the ensuite stuff then, the shower/sink/loo. We have tiled floors . . . . ! But maybe better to go through the toilet ceiling down below.
 
Might be worth getting someone in with a drain camera.
They will be able to see if the existing plumbing has any issues.

If that all stable, then it would require further investigation - which could be quite costly
 

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