Dead animal smell brand new septic system

Hello.

Our newly built barndominium construction has been..interesting to say the least. We have a septic tank about 5 ft in the backyard. I don't have any pictures at the moment but imagine two bathrooms mirrored and a single wall in between the two and the toilets share a wall, that's the bathrooms. I remember before the walls were put up I saw there was one tall vertical pipe with what looked like a vent on the top of it, and then one pipe leading outside that has a cap on it. There have been a lot of mistakes done on the house and a lot of steps had to be reversed including digging the dirt covering the septic back up, the last time it was left open for over a week which is what leads me to what I think maybe an animal fell in and is causing this horrific smell permeating in the bathrooms.. It doesn't smell like the typical rotten egg smell, I've smelled that before and it was a bad seal on a toilet. It's not that. It smells like rotted old blood left out in the sun for a few weeks. It's seemingly random when it happens but it can be caused by running the shower for about 5 minutes, it will come out of the gaps from the shower faucet in the walls and since the walls are wood shiplap, you can smell it coming through those cracks too. The worst is overnight. Every morning it's like hitting a wall of stench and it's so unbearable I've had to just use the restroom outside in the woods. Thankfully my bathroom has a window to air it out but that only helps so much. The plumber just told us to wait it out and when we begged him to come over and look, of course it wasn't smelling at that time so he just left without checking anything. We got a second opinion and he said something about not having a vent in the roof and he's not sure how to work with that since we have a loft above the bathrooms and he also didn't do anything. I would hate to think that some fumes or whatever are being vented right into the walls like that and the wood and insulation is soaking it all up..it even sticks to my clothes after I leave the room.

Hopefully we can eventually find a plumber that isn't booked up til next month to help us figure out what the hell is actually going on but in the meantime....is whatever we breathe in dangerous or toxic in any way? So far we haven't had any headaches or anything but it just smells SO BAD. Assuming it's just "normal", I don't see how it's acceptable in any way and that you have to just "wait until it goes away". Is there anything we can do as not-plumbers to help at all?

Any help appreciated!



Submitted August 08, 2022 at 04:31AM by thefoamcup https://ift.tt/mHUp3T5

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