Sewage smell coming from vanity cabinet area...
Hi... I'm new here. I know that similar questions like this have been posed here before, but I'm still confused about my situation...
We just bought a house a few months ago. It's a modular. Ever since we bought the place, there has been a sewage odor coming from the master bath vanity cabinet. There is a septic system. It was inspected (as per new property/home inspection guidelines for our state) and determined to be functioning properly, with no damage. We also had it pumped out right before we moved in. When we traced the source of the odor, it appeared to be coming from an open pipe under the vanity. The guest bath has the same type of pipe layout, and there is a capped pipe in the same position in the pipe work there as the open pipe in the master bath. There is no odor at all in the guest bath. On some days, there is no odor from that open pipe in the master bath. On most days, there is a faint odor. On very hot days, there is a very strong odor - and this odor comes from the open pipe, as well as from outside. There are no vents to the roof. The obvious solution would be to cap that open pipe until we can get the pipework done to vent it through the roof properly. However - sometimes the odor comes from the floor under the vanity. Whenever we have detected the odor, it's been fairly easy to trace to a specific point, as far as surface goes. There is also a mysterious wet spot that shows up on the inside of the vanity cabinet periodically, between the doors. There is no leak in the cabinet itself, and we pulled up the floor of the cabinet to check under it and behind the toe kick - and it's dry as a bone under there. No signs of leakage whatsoever, and no pipes at all under that mystery spot. Any ideas? We suspect a cracked or broken sewage pipe somewhere is responsible for the odor, and we're having that checked out, but if there could be any other possible cause(s) it would be helpful to check those out too... What are we missing? Oh - we tried snaking all the drains in the house, tried the bleach and boiling water. The snake found no clogs anywhere - all the lines were clear, including the main line. And the bleach helped for two days. But the odor came back. We're so confused...
Thanks for any help!