How can these things happen and best course of action for repair?

thandroids · Dec 27, 2017

scott_d said:
Could be a leak that shows when you flush the toilet or empty the bath

Negative. I think it must be from in the wall or above the property getting into the walls somehow :-(

scott_d said:
Could be a leak that shows when you flush the toilet or empty the bath

Think its coming from huge waste pipe in the wall. I never knew what this square wood screwed into my living room wall was so I removed it, and its just covering a HUGE cut out in the wall, and whats behind it?....a huge waste pipe.
So seems in this has been going on before I even occupied the property. They attempted to fix the problem in the past and left this huge hole in the wall and just covered it with a piece of wood. I guess I know why their is bubbling on the living room wall now too.

moonlight · Dec 27, 2017

I went to something similar in the past. Badly fitted tiles. Hope you sort your problem.

kentplumbing · Dec 30, 2017

ok, the leak does not have to be coming from that Particular area, water finds its lowest point? also, in that ducting, is there a Soil vent that goes through the roof? had this in the past with rainwater.

sammathias · Dec 30, 2017

Do you have a flat above yours?? Looks personally like the seal aroumd the bath. Have you directed your shower head around the seal and checked nothing is weeping?

Saying is there a flat above because i found a wastepipe that had come apart under boards of a flat on the 4th floor, travelled down stud walls and was only showing on ground floor ceiling.

thandroids · Dec 30, 2017

kentplumbing said:
ok, the leak does not have to be coming from that Particular area, water finds its lowest point? also, in that ducting, is there a Soil vent that goes through the roof? had this in the past with rainwater.

I really do think that is what the cause is. Trying to get someone in, who knows what they are doing.

thandroids · Dec 30, 2017

sammathias said:
Do you have a flat above yours?? Looks personally like the seal aroumd the bath. Have you directed your shower head around the seal and checked nothing is weeping?

Saying is there a flat above because i found a wastepipe that had come apart under boards of a flat on the 4th floor, travelled down stud walls and was only showing on ground floor ceiling.

Yep. Sounds like whats going on. The waste pipe.

MoniczkaMoniczka · Jan 3, 2018

Thandroids
did you use a thermovision camera?

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thandroids · Jan 3, 2018

MoniczkaMoniczka said:
Thandroids
did you use a thermovision camera?
Hydraulik Gdańsk

I'm arranging for someone to investigate. I'll see if they use one. But all evidence already points to the waste pipe or rain coming in.Cant be anything else as previous plumbers have not been able to find anything originating from inside the property.

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