stink pipe help please, (bit long winded!)

flissh

Can anyone help?

We have two toilets, (and a very bad smell!), and we have a cess pit.

The downstairs loo has a stink pipe that runs up, inside a crawl space in the eaves beside our bed room, where it becomes a plastic pipe like the sort you connect to a tumble drier. It emerges in the loft then trails along the loft floor a bit, finally connected to a vent in the roof.

When we first moved in three years ago there was a terrible smell occasionally in the house, worse in the loft. The plastic pipe had been nibbled by mice and had a large hole in it. I taped it up with some strong tape, dealt with the mice and forgot about it.

The smell has come back. Only now and again, and worse in the loft. I looked at the pipe and it looks okay. The (bodge) job I did seems to be holding.

I thought I would investigate the other toilet, which is in the bathroom upstairs. The soil pipe goes into a crawl space that runs along the back of a dormer. I stuck my head in and the soil pipe has a pipe going up from it. The pipe is about three feet high and has what looks like a white stopper in it.

So, I have two questions. Is it possible to make the downstairs toilet's stink pipe run outside the house?

Should the upstairs toilet be connected to a vent or is the stopper thingy not a stopper but something else? Can't get in to have a good look as it is a very small space.

Also, is it called a stink pipe, or is there a more polite term for it:eek: Got to say the name is very apt.

macman

Vent pipe.

flissh

macman wrote: »

Vent pipe.

thanks macman, that sounds much better!

googler

Soil and Vent Pipe. SVP for short.

martinthebandit

a couple of these http://www.screwfix.com/p/floplast-solvent-weld-air-admittance-valve-black/89854 may help (if I have understood the problem correctly )

flissh

martinthebandit wrote: »

a couple of these http://www.screwfix.com/p/floplast-solvent-weld-air-admittance-valve-black/89854 may help (if I have understood the problem correctly )

Thanks for that, they look like exactly what I need.

martinthebandit

flissh wrote: »

Thanks for that, they look like exactly what I need.

Just remember if you are fitting them yourself (and there is no reason why you shouldn't) you will need some of this http://www.screwfix.com/p/floplast-sc250-solvent-cement-250ml/14295

HelenDaveKids

I thought it was stench or soil pipe?