I knew there was a question with the drains before I even arrived at this property in a pleasant road in Clifton, as I was asked not to go until it had been sorted out. It had, so here I was. I found no real deficiencies externally (chimneys, a bit, roof, gutters, walls and windows), but when I got into the flat the sewerage odour was almost overpowering…drains. Many years ago I looked a Georgian house in St. Margaret’s Building, in Bath, where there was a serious, and I’m talking SERIOUS difficulty with the drains that had collapsed into the basement and sewage was all over the place – I do get to some charming places!. As a result I have never forgotten that smell and I can pick it up wherever there is drainage glitch. It exists here, but hopefully the real problem has been sorted out and after a short while so will that dreadful odour…Nothing to do with surveying, but I just wonder if that smell, all those years ago has affected me, as I’m not very good at distinguishing the bouquet of a bottle of wine…   more »