7 year leak under bath!

[Dan Robinson]

Only up to the 7 pint limit... then it goes downhill rapidly.

 

[PlanetThanet]

What happened to the legs on the bath?

Thanet

 

[libby lou lou]

There are plenty of loonies on here,

Just because it hasn't/isn't leaking doesn't mean to say it won't. [/quote

Same rule then after a pro fit.?.

 

[Dan Robinson]

Yes dear

 

[lky2k23]

Sorry mate had the original guy come on Friday night. Attached the finished work, bit better? Nothing has leaked out yet so seems better so far.

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• lky2k23
• 25 Mar 2012
• 1

Just waiting for the floor to dry out now before i get a new bath panel.

 

[lky2k23]

Spoke too soon it seems - looked under this morning and still a leak coming from there!

 

[Dan Robinson]

He's probably disturbed the black section where it seals to the bath.

 

[lky2k23]

At work now but anything I can do to check that tonight or should I just call him and get him back?

 

[lky2k23]

Update - the plumber fixed the leak day after my last post.

The floor is still wet to the touch 2-3 weeks after the leak has gone, is this cause for concern? I have a dehumidifier on pretty much 24/7 and its being filled once a day.

 

[HERTS P&D]

Sounds like you still have a leak....................?

Should of let Seco sort it out.

Andy

 

[lky2k23]

Nothing coming from the baths ubend I don't think. Just wondering if the 7years wetness will take longer then I thought to dry and if I should continue with the dehumidifier, or could there be a bigger problem. We did have insurance company send around a trace plumber as we thought it was upstairs leaking on us and thy said it was just the bath.

 

[middlesbrough]

So considering the baths been piped up with a sink waste, whats the sink piped up with a fooking multi quick !?

 

[holty]

looking at the state of the copper going into the floor. i would investigate futher. if you have a water meter looking at this, and the black dial moves with no appliances on. will indicate a leak on the cold side maybe hot side if hot is mains fed. if you have a hot water cylinder and cold water storage tank in the loft. isolate the cws or turn the mains off. mark the water level in the cws. and see if the level drops. ps in your pic the pipe nearest has a very bad blob of solder on a T piece. horizontally. on that blob of solder it looks like a blob of water aslo. p.s also check your overflow isnt leaking.

 

[mysteryman]

I was called out to a leak under a bath many years ago. The house was carcassed in screwed steel with lead tails to the taps. The cold tap lead tail had a pinhole in a wiped joint. I made up a copper connection and when I told the customers, they said they had been in the house for over 50 years and the bath panel had never been removed.

 

[lky2k23]

looking at the state of the copper going into the floor. i would investigate futher. if you have a water meter looking at this, and the black dial moves with no appliances on. will indicate a leak on the cold side maybe hot side if hot is mains fed. if you have a hot water cylinder and cold water storage tank in the loft. isolate the cws or turn the mains off. mark the water level in the cws. and see if the level drops. ps in your pic the pipe nearest has a very bad blob of solder on a T piece. horizontally. on that blob of solder it looks like a blob of water aslo. p.s also check your overflow isnt leaking.

I dont have a water meter and am in a ground floor flat. Checked the blob of soldering, was just a blod of soldering. The copper does look bad but i guess that could have been the wet and damp over the last 7 years?

I am wondering if there is a leak under the floor but its concrete, no way of finding out without removing the floor is there?