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Pam291

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Location: Huércal-Overa

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Hi folks we've just bought a house in los requenas there us a horrible methane gas smell comes and goes from various rooms house had been sitting empty for a while.... Does anyone know the area ? Is there a communal pozo ? Who is the best person to contact for help ? Thanks all

BobL

Posted: Sun Jul 2, 2017 8:44am

BobL

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Posted: Sun Jul 2, 2017 8:44am

Hi. How unpleasant and worrying.

May I respectfully suggest you ring Drainage/Building Solutions on 670088966. Think it was Nigel I spoke to. Really helpful & I only wanted advice.

Anyway hope.it gets sorted as not the best we come.

Best Wishes,

Bob and Sandra

Mojacar Playa and Puerto Lumbreras

Pam291

Posted: Sun Jul 2, 2017 10:33am

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Posted: Sun Jul 2, 2017 10:33am

Thanks so much for your reply we'll give him a call. Regards

chevyrecycler34

Posted: Mon Jul 3, 2017 3:14pm

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Posted: Mon Jul 3, 2017 3:14pm

Hi.

Just an idea, 

if there's serious odours in all rooms and the house/villa has been standing empty for a while, and it's not a full septic tank or problematic poso, or a nearby pig/goat farm, get some floral disinfectant and wash out all the sink traps, bathtubs, shower basin, toilets and bidets as it could just be that the traps in all the above have dried out and arent preventing odours from creeping back thru the drains as theyre designed to do.

Simple enough thing to try and/or start with.

Best of luck.

We're battling a partially functioning septic system, moved into the villa in late march and by mid may had had to have the septic emptied twice !! At €100 a pop, now early July and looking at burning another €100 having it emptied again !!

When partner was negotiating the villa purchase she was told the septic tank hadnt needed to be emptied in the previous 9 years, but also that it had only been used on a three months on/off holiday usage.

If we have visitors we have to be mindful of what the levels are like in the septic lol, hardly conducive to fun times.

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Oxana

Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2019 9:21pm

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Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2019 9:21pm

Hello  chevyrecycler34

what septic tank service you used, and are they english guys?

Kind regards

Oxana

beauly

Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2019 9:42am

beauly

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Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2019 9:42am

Hi there. Who was it you used for €100 per time, as this is a very reasonable charge. It is worth calling Drainage Solutions as above recommendation. The problem may not be your septic tank but the drainage from it. This was the problem with our neighbours, which is now all sorted.  Hope this helps. Regards

chevyrecycler34

Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2019 8:22pm

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Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2019 8:22pm

Hi, we think that one of the septic tank emptiers were a company called sepserve, both companies advertise in the Focus free magazine.

Partner had a new pozo installed around the front with a macerator which basically liquidises everything in the back, (small septic) then pumps it to the front receptor which leeches the results into the ground round front.

Every time the old septic was emptied we were told that the tank wasnt big enough but had to go elsewhere when the associate of one of the emptiers failed to call us back twice !!

One company had a spanish only driver, local to Urcal, the other, sepserve had one spanish and another possibly lithuanian/romanian who could spean reasonable english.

Oxana

Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2019 8:41pm

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Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2019 8:41pm

thank you very much for your information, I will google sepserve

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