Re: The Mystery of the Drip, Drip, Drip...

[Guest guest]

The sink in my mother's bathroom has a really slow drain and it overflows sometimes because she forgets to turn the taps off all the way. That hasn't happened for a while though, since I got after her about it the last time she flooded the bathroom and caused a leak downstairs.

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[Guest guest]

Sorry to hear about all of that. Sounds like a nightmare. Hope it

turns out well.

Tom

Administrator

[Guest guest]

I hope you manage to get this sorted out soon.

>

>

> 3 years ago my older son came to me in the kitchen and told me he

heard

> a 'drip, drip, drip' coming from somewhere - I was busy and sent

him off

> to find the source - it was in the diningroom ceiling and he

decided it

> was from the bathroom upstairs. He was right.

>

> From the day we moved in there was a wet carpet outside of the

bathroom

> problem that we could never figure out, but it wasn't consistant

with

> anything we could figure out to know exactly why.

>

> A year and several investigations later we had a hole in our dining

room

> ceiling, ripped up water damaged carpet in the hallway and had

plumbers

> and roofers in to determine that the source was not the roof - had

that

> fixed and it persisted, not the bathtub - had the drain patched up

and

> it persisted...

>

> So on a whim my husband decided to fix the floor, and when he

pulled up

> the cracked tiles he discovered that the cement UNDER them was also

> cracked and there was no real blocking between the bathroom and the

> hallway - so any type of wetness had a direct route to the carpet

and

> eventually to the ceiling below...

>

> A year after that my husband had the ceiling patched up, installed

a

> new light, put down new cement and tile in the bathroom and this

year

> has finished new flooring in the dining room and the upstairs

hallway.

> We've still had two dripping problems for extremely messy baths,

but a

> towel down seems to help.

>

> Last night, however, something most unfortunate happened. My

husband

> and I are watching an excruciatingly sappy super hero movie (The

> Fabulous 4 - Silver Surfer - having to watch that was unfortunate,

but

> not what this story is about) and we hear some sort of dripping

> upstairs... Leaping up, I charge up the stairs to see water

dripping

> down from the same spot in the ceiling as the original one 3+ years

ago

> AND pouring out from the ON ceiling light. I hit the switch off and

> hiked on up the stairs.

>

> I could hear on my way up the sound of a rushing faucet and upon

> reaching the top of the stairs saw at least a half inch of water on

the

> bathroom floor. THANKFULLY pooling just below the well installed

marble

> doorjam. I turned off the water and started to unload a basket of

newly

> washed and folded towels into the lake while down stairs my husband

> found buckets to put under the source of the drips and protect the

new

> flooring.

>

> To give the children the benefit of the doubt, I took into

consideration

> not just their nightly half a sleep trips to the bathroom - but the

fact

> that I was doing a late load of laundry which tends to cut down on

the

> water pressure upstairs... What probably happened is that when one

of my

> sons got up to go to the bathroom and flushed, there must have been

> nothing much coming out of the faucet and thus this precious source

of

> joy to me did not realize he did not turn off the water. At all.

>

> So - the ceiling probably needs to be redone, and I'm not using the

> light in here today, but I think for the most part a disaster of a

> ruined newly installed laminent flooring was averted... However,

now we

> realize we really need to invest in a new sink in the kids bathroom

> because the overflow is corroded and that is why the water was not

> diverted to the drain but came out under the sink onto the floor.

>

> Now I have to go do another load of towels...

>

[Guest guest]

I hope you manage to get this sorted out soon.

>

>

> 3 years ago my older son came to me in the kitchen and told me he

heard

> a 'drip, drip, drip' coming from somewhere - I was busy and sent

him off

> to find the source - it was in the diningroom ceiling and he

decided it

> was from the bathroom upstairs. He was right.

>

> From the day we moved in there was a wet carpet outside of the

bathroom

> problem that we could never figure out, but it wasn't consistant

with

> anything we could figure out to know exactly why.

>

> A year and several investigations later we had a hole in our dining

room

> ceiling, ripped up water damaged carpet in the hallway and had

plumbers

> and roofers in to determine that the source was not the roof - had

that

> fixed and it persisted, not the bathtub - had the drain patched up

and

> it persisted...

>

> So on a whim my husband decided to fix the floor, and when he

pulled up

> the cracked tiles he discovered that the cement UNDER them was also

> cracked and there was no real blocking between the bathroom and the

> hallway - so any type of wetness had a direct route to the carpet

and

> eventually to the ceiling below...

>

> A year after that my husband had the ceiling patched up, installed

a

> new light, put down new cement and tile in the bathroom and this

year

> has finished new flooring in the dining room and the upstairs

hallway.

> We've still had two dripping problems for extremely messy baths,

but a

> towel down seems to help.

>

> Last night, however, something most unfortunate happened. My

husband

> and I are watching an excruciatingly sappy super hero movie (The

> Fabulous 4 - Silver Surfer - having to watch that was unfortunate,

but

> not what this story is about) and we hear some sort of dripping

> upstairs... Leaping up, I charge up the stairs to see water

dripping

> down from the same spot in the ceiling as the original one 3+ years

ago

> AND pouring out from the ON ceiling light. I hit the switch off and

> hiked on up the stairs.

>

> I could hear on my way up the sound of a rushing faucet and upon

> reaching the top of the stairs saw at least a half inch of water on

the

> bathroom floor. THANKFULLY pooling just below the well installed

marble

> doorjam. I turned off the water and started to unload a basket of

newly

> washed and folded towels into the lake while down stairs my husband

> found buckets to put under the source of the drips and protect the

new

> flooring.

>

> To give the children the benefit of the doubt, I took into

consideration

> not just their nightly half a sleep trips to the bathroom - but the

fact

> that I was doing a late load of laundry which tends to cut down on

the

> water pressure upstairs... What probably happened is that when one

of my

> sons got up to go to the bathroom and flushed, there must have been

> nothing much coming out of the faucet and thus this precious source

of

> joy to me did not realize he did not turn off the water. At all.

>

> So - the ceiling probably needs to be redone, and I'm not using the

> light in here today, but I think for the most part a disaster of a

> ruined newly installed laminent flooring was averted... However,

now we

> realize we really need to invest in a new sink in the kids bathroom

> because the overflow is corroded and that is why the water was not

> diverted to the drain but came out under the sink onto the floor.

>

> Now I have to go do another load of towels...

>

[Guest guest]

Thanks for your well wishes and sympathy. It wasn't tragic, just

annoying... my ceiling is warped, but we can live with this for a

while... It could have been MUCH worse.