Help water leaking from my bath into flat below!

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Thank-you all in advance.

As the title says in need of advice as not sure whether to call plumber out on new years eve!

I have a leak which i'm 99% sure is coming from my bathtub/pipes into my downstairs neighbours flat.

I bought the flat leasehold and have been here for 5 weeks but only had a bath twice a week(yuk..yes I know i've been decorating and only like showers and I don't have one at the moment)

This is the first sign of a leak downstairs that I know of.

This is what I don't understand.Ive just ran the tap for two baths and its no worse downstairs.(4.5 hours ago)
I took the bath panel off and I looked for every leak possible underneath.
Not a single drop.
Now before I went away I let some water go into the overflow(about two pints worth or more)just by mistake.
Now then later that day my neighbour says theres a drop of water(not bad).She said about a tennis ball size.I said let me know if it gets worse.
No call.
I get home 6 days later and fill the bath up twice and let it go through the overflow heavily to see if there is a leak.
A few droplets. So I seal it up and thought that was it.My neighbour then says its 3 times worse.
Now I have this problem.

I'm thinking maybe its the overflow somehow?
But its not leaking that I can see.

Happy new year all.

Chris

 

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Hi,

Right the leak is now fixed but the plumber has left me with a humming noise(like a neumatic drill) all night from maybe midnight until I think the taps get used more about 9am.

It is loud and coming from the stop-cock area where he replaced the flange and washers I think.

The noise is also near the boiler which is a foot away from the stop-cock.

I nor the nieghbours could hardly sleep at all.

I've called him but he says hes not sure what it is.

This obviously only happened the night he repaired the stop-cock and has never happened before.

There is no noise now(during the day)

Thanks,

Chris