The Puddle of Shit Under My House, Codebases, and Mental Health

In January we began to smell a repulsive odor in our house. It smelled very much like sewage. It got worse and worse. Sometimes it was so bad it would wake us up at night.

Sewage smell usually comes from — sewage. Yes, sewage pipes under the house had cracked. Our house is 65 years old, with original cast iron pipes. The sewage leaking out of the corroded, cracked pipes had formed a huge puddle of human waste right under our house. The puddle grew every time we used the bathroom.