Sewage smells in bedrooms help!

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Hi
I live in a 3 storey victorian terrace and we recently have been getting intimittent smells of poo in the two bedrooms on the middle floor. The smell comes and goes but tends to be worse in the evenings. We did recently have a blocked toilet on the groundfloor caused by a blocked drainage pipe which we managed to unblock through the man hole cover using rods. We also have a bathroom on the top floor of the house - so are wondering whether any sewage is backed up in the pipes and if they run under our floorboards. We've lifted up some floor boards but can't seem to pin point the smell. We also have gas fires in the two bedrooms which are never used and wondered if they could cause a poo smell or even the old radiators. It's been going on for a couple of months so don't think it can be dead rodents although we did have mice a year ago....Please can anyone offer any suggestions or tell me who might be able to help me as we're going insane?
Thanks a million.
Katy

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Your toilets pipework should go straight out of the house and down the soil stack shouldn't they? Can't see this being the problem although I don't mind being corrected! My gut instinct is mice - when they carc it they smell just like raw sewage to me. Sometimes the smell isn't too bad until there's a cold spell and the heating goes on then - phew!! You'll have to hunt for the little blighters.