Finally I had enough and dug up the lines leading to the tanks (which was hard because the plans for the house were useless). Plumber after plumber would say the problem was the drains in the floor, which I guess are like traps in the US. For several years when the rains came our master bath started to smell. The ground gets saturated (walls fall etc). When we are in the rainy season it rains hard every night. We live in Mexico and I'm sure no one in the US has seen a septic system quite like ours. When I read septic/rain/odor I said hmm that sounds like us 4 years ago. It seems like an odd coincidence that this would happen after the field line install and that has nothing to do with it. Do you think this fixed this issue? Is there something else I could check? Do you think it has anything to do with the new field lines? I've lived in this house for 18 years and never had this happens. After running all that water in the vent pipes there is no smell. Although its possible the 2" pipe could have been clogged after the bend and the water cleared it out but there is no way to tell. Everything seemed to drain fine so they seem clear. I took a garden hose with a jet nozzle and ran down the pipes blasting water. The 2" pipe had a bend a few feet down so I couldn't see to the bottom. The 3" pipe went straight to the ground and it looked clear. This morning I got on my roof and checked my vent pipes, (1) 3" pipe and (1) 2" pipe, thinking that maybe one or both were stopped up. It was really strong for a few hours and it slowly went away an hour our so after the rain stopped. All was well then more rain that afternoon and the smell came back but this time it was coming from the kitchen. I replaced the wax seal yesterday but by then the smell was subsiding (a few hours after the rain stopped). He said I needed to replace the wax seal on my toilet in the bathroom where the smell was coming from. I called the guy who installed the lines and he said that if water was draining (which it was) then the field lines were not the issue. Since this has never happened before i assumed that was the issue. I had my septic tank pumped and had new field lines put in a few weeks back. I had a really strong sewage smell coming from a bathroom yesterday after a heavy rain for about an hour.
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