Cat-like smell from the powder room

I want to install a powder room in my guest bedroom. I have a cement slab floor. I will be placing the toilet on an exterior wall with the main drain/sewer line about 3 feet from that exterior wall. Is there any way I can avoid having to cut a section of that slab floor in order to install the...

I saw something similar to this problem, so I hope I am not duplicating. I was washing clothes and noticed when it was draining that I heard gurgling in my kitchen sink. The sounds were coming from the kitchen sink, but no water back up. I walked to where the washer is located and looked...

New to the forum and I am impressed with the content. I have looked everywhere on Google and this and other forums, for an answer to my problem. I have a 5 year old bungalow on a septic system that has an absorbent well instead of a weeping field. We have been experiencing a sewer smell in our...

We live in an unincorporated rural area east of Dallas. We have lateral lines for septic, and a totally separate piping system for our laundry room which uses a french drain. Slab foundation. Laundry room shares a wall with a bathroom. Problem: extrememly concentrated sewage gas smell fills...

Hi, I have been bothered by a strange smell in one room in my house. I smelled it last summer and it went away during the winter. Now the whether is getting warm (80 degree outside) and I notice the smell again. Even in summer time, the smell does not always stay. Sometimes we smell it and...