Dreadful smell of poo from next door

[Jones82]

Look to the vent pipes on the external drains, are they close to any opening windows? The smell comes and goes from drains due to atmospheric pressure and changes in the weather. During high pressure the gases can't rise as easily so the smell is stronger

 

[Murdoch]

Surely your first step is to talk to your neighbour .....

That said if it’s as bad as you suggest, I doubt 1 house could generate so much of a stench!

 

[Scott_D]

Post a picture of both houses soil pipes

 

[rpm]

Look to the vent pipes on the external drains, are they close to any opening windows? The smell comes and goes from drains due to atmospheric pressure and changes in the weather. During high pressure the gases can't rise as easily so the smell is stronger

Doubt it is vents, OP smells it when downstairs as well remember, also happens when neighbours are in and stopped when they went away.

 

[nauseated]

Nobody said you were responsible for blocking the manhole.

It was a question about the status quo between yourself and your neighbours.

Your response answers my question nicely.

Best of luck.

For your information, and I wouldn't have included this as it wasn't something I wanted to say, but there are mental health issues involved with the neighbouring property, and one person living there has physically assaulted me in the past, so it wouldn't be prudent to approach them whether I had evidence or not.

The purpose of me coming on this site was to seek help/information, and to establish if there was anything I could do to reduce the impact on me as I know I have to live with the situation.

The information about the macerator was helpful because the smell sometimes resembles the smell of slurry. And in warmer weather when standing in the back garden, the smell is outside and coming from vents in next door's bathroom wall.

If you are going to reply to posts you need to take a step back, not jump to conclusions, and not add to people's difficulties.

 

[SimonG]

For your information, and I wouldn't have included this as it wasn't something I wanted to say, but there are mental health issues involved with the neighbouring property, and one person living there has physically assaulted me in the past, so it wouldn't be prudent to approach them whether I had evidence or not.

The purpose of me coming on this site was to seek help/information, and to establish if there was anything I could do to reduce the impact on me as I know I have to live with the situation.

The information about the macerator was helpful because the smell sometimes resembles the smell of slurry. And in warmer weather when standing in the back garden, the smell is outside and coming from vents in next door's bathroom wall.

If you are going to reply to posts you need to take a step back, not jump to conclusions, and not add to people's difficulties.

Like I said, volumes, and always two sides to a story.

Good luck.

 

[rpm]

For your information, and I wouldn't have included this as it wasn't something I wanted to say, but there are mental health issues involved with the neighbouring property, and one person living there has physically assaulted me in the past, so it wouldn't be prudent to approach them whether I had evidence or not.

The purpose of me coming on this site was to seek help/information, and to establish if there was anything I could do to reduce the impact on me as I know I have to live with the situation.

The information about the macerator was helpful because the smell sometimes resembles the smell of slurry. And in warmer weather when standing in the back garden, the smell is outside and coming from vents in next door's bathroom wall.

If you are going to reply to posts you need to take a step back, not jump to conclusions, and not add to people's difficulties.

Oh here we go with the mental health card and on top of that the fact that the smell is coming from a particular source now, something the OP "forgot" to mention earlier! 😡
Smells like a fishy post to me so goodnight! 😛

 

[Chuck]

Check you house insurance policy. A decent one will cover investigating and fixing this sort of problem. I can think of a couple of possible explanations for your problem but only an on-site investigation is going to establish and fix the root cause.

You should have taken action on this back in October. Don't leave it any longer. If you think the smell is bad now just wait until the warmer weather arrives and the pond of sewage that is accumulating under your house warms up...

 

[Scott_D]

For your information, and I wouldn't have included this as it wasn't something I wanted to say, but there are mental health issues involved with the neighbouring property, and one person living there has physically assaulted me in the past, so it wouldn't be prudent to approach them whether I had evidence or not.

The purpose of me coming on this site was to seek help/information, and to establish if there was anything I could do to reduce the impact on me as I know I have to live with the situation.

The information about the macerator was helpful because the smell sometimes resembles the smell of slurry. And in warmer weather when standing in the back garden, the smell is outside and coming from vents in next door's bathroom wall.

If you are going to reply to posts you need to take a step back, not jump to conclusions, and not add to people's difficulties.

Are your bathrooms downstairs?

 

[rpm]

The purpose of me coming on this site was to seek help/information, and to establish if there was anything I could do to reduce the impact on me as I know I have to live with the situation.

Yeah, sell up and move is one! 😀

 

[king of pipes]

It is obviously a drain problem either blocked or broken if it your neighbours then I would contact your environmental health dept if you are on bad terms accusations will only make things worse , kop

 

[Ric2013]

It is obviously a drain problem either blocked or broken if it your neighbours then I would contact your environmental health dept if you are on bad terms accusations will only make things worse , kop

Then you aren't accusing anyone.

To be fair, it could be a problem with your drains that has become highlighted by action next door. Unless you have independent septic tanks, at some point the independent drains will run together to a public sewer at which point the stench from one could run up the other. So some level of interdependence of services is almost inevitable.

To give an example, my own house runs to a manhole that then runs to the next manhole at which point it becomes shared by the neighbour. When the neighbour converted to an air admittance valve instead of open vent, I started to notice drain smells in my bathroom. Turned out there was a tiny air leak within the soil stack that previously had been subject to less pressure.

Back to your problem, quite possible that the issue is a public sewer issue, or yours, or the neighbour's, or another neighbour's and at which point environmental health may have an answer or suggestions as to how you could pinpoint the problem. Although if the fabric of your building is spot on, then any external defect shouldn't really be affecting you, so I'm confused.