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Doomed

OK, whenever we cook something quite aromatic, most notably onions, the shower water next day smells of whatever we cooked. Fed up of smelling like a hot dog.
Both kitchen and bathroom on ground floor.
Kitchen sink waste goes straight through external wall into a drain, this drain line then picks up the shower and washing machine outfalls slightly further down the garden.
All the water pipes stay internal.
Shower is a standard 8.5KW electric shower.

Ideas?

P.S. Can't upload images?
 
Try fitting one of these to the bath waste.
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None of the outfalls are directly connected to the main sewer, they all empty into drains like this (can't upload my own pics)
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Kitchen sink and boiler condense into one, shower and washing machine into another, and bath & sink into a third.
 
Hi Doomed,

I don't think your problems is with the plumbing that we can help you with.

Your internal body plumbing may be the problem.

Do you have reflux?
Do you have a flatulance problems the day after eating your aromatic meals?
Is you toilet in the same room as the shower?
 
Wife and kids all say the same - so its not me :)

The kitchen extract goes straight through an external wall, the bathroom extract through another wall on another edge of the house.
 
Do you have stored hot water?

I had a customer who I had to go out on two occasions to.

He had garlic water. He had over a bulb of garlic In his cylinder. Couldnt figure it out but imagine its to do with a previous plumber being shortchanged.
 

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