Leak in living room

[Vintyd]

Hi everyone first post on here just looking some advice

Been living in my new house 2 years this month, a few months back there was a leak in the living room ceiling. Builder came out and said it was the shower seals and resealed the shower. I then got the ceiling fixed and a few days later leaked again, wet patch formed again. The builder came out four times altogether and resealed the shower each time and said it could be the doors. I basically had enough and got a mate of mine to have a look, heres what he found above the damp patch. This just looked wrong to my mate and you could see the water dripping out of the bottom of the black rubber seal.

My mate plastered it in Tec7 to see if this would help but will probably need more work he thinks.

Should this have been plumbed like this?

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• Vintyd
• 14 Jun 2011
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• Vintyd
• 14 Jun 2011
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[Vintyd]

Anyone seen this before not sure if I can complain about the way it was fitted?

Cheers

Vinty

 

[picasso]

it looks like the builder has used a rubber drain connector, I have never seen one used like that, I have always assumed (rightly or wrongly) that they could only be used with the pipes running down into them, the fact its leaking means somethings wrong with the set up so get your builder back again.

 

[Vintyd]

Cheers, thats what my friend thought they where only for pipes going down vertical. He also said something about there being no bend even, so its like a straight pipe to the outside so as the pressure builds it runs back and forces the rubber seal off. I had a look at other houses near mine which are the same type and they have those two pipes running outside and then into a 4inch pipe. Will give me a call but I think they have went bust so not sure how that works