Her son Martin added: "I've come here on a warm day and it's really unpleasant."
Virginia claims she contacted Barratt directly in 2019 when the stink got too much, but she was told the warranty on her property had expired so it would not look at her private drainage. It also insisted there was no log of the complaints she had made to the site manager two years earlier.The mum had several experts come out to check her plumbing, all of whom agreed there was no smell from her drains."I watched him and he was taking bricks and all sorts out," Virginia said.
"If that's just in mine, there might be rubble and a blockage in someone else's drain and they don't know about it."Yorkshire Water also got involved and, after a visit, theorised that the funk could stem from shared drainage between the houses, which would be the responsibility of the developers. "Someone from Barratt came out and checked my drains but said they couldn't find anything, which I think is a good thing," Virginia added."I think it's the pipes under the roads that need checking for a blockage.Martin, who works as a caretaker, even dismantled the internal plumbing and took the water boards up in the kitchen but also couldn't find the source.