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Hi all, first post so please go easy.
Had a look through the forums but couldnt find an answer to this problem so hopefully someone will be kind enough to help me.
We have a bathroom at the front of the house and ensuite at rear. On the roof at rear is a soil vent through the roof, and the soil pipe from the front bathroom has a AAV in loft. We have been experiencing some terrible intermittent smells in the house for a while now, our neighbours have similar problems as well, water company have been informed and they have been digging in road for a long time.
Well we had a plumber round to see if there was anything wrong with the house to make sure there wasn't anything we could do to help with the problem. He said that although the system in 'theory' was correct, he wouldn't have installed it in the same way. He said that it is acceptable to put the AAV in the top of the front stack as long as the back stack has an open roof vent (this being the furthest from the main drain), however the distance on our house was quiet large and therefore bad air would collect in the stack and find it's way out causing the smells. He proposed extending the front soil pipe through the roof to ventin the ssame way as the back one.
He said it would be expensive though as he would have to hire equipment etc, no quote yet though.
Firstly, does this sound like good advice?
I have an opportunity over the next few days to get up on the roof to do this job myself as we currently have scaffolding round house to have ridge tiles relaid. I looked around and found that there are more discreet vent options than the 110mm pipe sticking out the roof, like the look of this one which may be OK.
Klober Universal Ventilation Tile With Cap - Brown
I think that I have to get the pipe to a position that complies with building regs (900mm above any opening window within 3 metres). Then install the Ventilation tile from inside the roof meaning that the existing felt would be cut . I'm a little unsure about how to seal vent tile to felt to make sure no water gets in.
Many thanks in advance.
Had a look through the forums but couldnt find an answer to this problem so hopefully someone will be kind enough to help me.
We have a bathroom at the front of the house and ensuite at rear. On the roof at rear is a soil vent through the roof, and the soil pipe from the front bathroom has a AAV in loft. We have been experiencing some terrible intermittent smells in the house for a while now, our neighbours have similar problems as well, water company have been informed and they have been digging in road for a long time.
Well we had a plumber round to see if there was anything wrong with the house to make sure there wasn't anything we could do to help with the problem. He said that although the system in 'theory' was correct, he wouldn't have installed it in the same way. He said that it is acceptable to put the AAV in the top of the front stack as long as the back stack has an open roof vent (this being the furthest from the main drain), however the distance on our house was quiet large and therefore bad air would collect in the stack and find it's way out causing the smells. He proposed extending the front soil pipe through the roof to ventin the ssame way as the back one.
He said it would be expensive though as he would have to hire equipment etc, no quote yet though.
Firstly, does this sound like good advice?
I have an opportunity over the next few days to get up on the roof to do this job myself as we currently have scaffolding round house to have ridge tiles relaid. I looked around and found that there are more discreet vent options than the 110mm pipe sticking out the roof, like the look of this one which may be OK.
Klober Universal Ventilation Tile With Cap - Brown
I think that I have to get the pipe to a position that complies with building regs (900mm above any opening window within 3 metres). Then install the Ventilation tile from inside the roof meaning that the existing felt would be cut . I'm a little unsure about how to seal vent tile to felt to make sure no water gets in.
Many thanks in advance.