When it rains steady or hard, I always get a septic smell in my basement. I have had my septic tank pumped and inspected. Everything checked out fine. I made sure all the traps in the house were not dry. I ran water through all of them. I was told that it could be my vent pipe on my roof. There is two pipes on the roof. Are they both vent pipes? I was told to run water down them to try to flush them out. Would it hurt anything to flush both of these pipes out with water? If so which one should I flush? I did not notice any real bad smell coming from either of these pipes. Nothing close to the smell I have in my basement. Does anyone have any comments or ideas? Thanks!!

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Originally Posted by Pat5051

When it rains steady or hard, I always get a septic smell in my basement. I have had my septic tank pumped and inspected. Everything checked out fine. I made sure all the traps in the house were not dry. I ran water through all of them. I was told that it could be my vent pipe on my roof. There is two pipes on the roof. Are they both vent pipes? I was told to run water down them to try to flush them out. Would it hurt anything to flush both of these pipes out with water? If so which one should I flush? I did not notice any real bad smell coming from either of these pipes. Nothing close to the smell I have in my basement. Does anyone have any comments or ideas? Thanks!!!

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Rain and high humidity force odor to drift down so the smell's worse when it rains. Odor Hog has roof vent caps, (see image) that you should check out. Click on; http://www.odorhog.com/ to see. Good luck, Tom