I live in a city row house renovated about ten years ago. There's an awful sewage smell that penetrates the ground floor, particularly in the closet that holds our hot water heater. The smell also seems particularly strong in the morning. We don't smell the scent near sinks or other dranks, but...

When it's pouring rain outside, the basement apartment of my house floods with sewer water. The basement apartment has its own front entrance and back entrance; the drain outside of each entrance, the shower drain, and a hole in the floor of the closet all back up. It's not a simple matter of...

We have lived in our house for 5 years and 2/3 times a year we have had backup. We have had Roto Rooter and several plumbers run a snake, each time they have ran into nothing. We do not have a septic tank. What can we do at this point?

Hi, Two problems: We have a 1/2 year old house, two story with a basement. We are on acreage, so we have a septic system. We have been noticing a sewage smell coming from either the water from the faucets, or from the drains. I have tried smelling the water (I put water into my coffee pot or...

I have a septic system which was cleaned out and inspected about a month ago, and the pipe from the house to the septic was snaked. Tonight, black sludge and water backed up into my basement from the drain pipe in the basement whenever I did a load of wash. Is there any remedy I can use on my own?