Water Leaking From Upstairs Bathroom To Downstairs Cost

If you have a second story bathroom the problem could be in.

Water leaking from upstairs bathroom to downstairs cost.

It s leaking enough on my downstairs ceiling to make a few inches of drywall fall off. Water leaking from upstairs bathroom to downstairs cost. The water can run outside of the shower door area onto the floor of the bathroom and leak between the shower and the floor area. Now i ve got a 2nd floor shower leak leaking downstairs onto tile kitchen.

If it happens that your shower or bathtub is located above your garage you can cut costs by having the plumber cut the ceiling under those pipes and replacing it with a removable door. Door frames often leak as well. You would have to reconfigure your whole bathroom to get the benefit of the space gained by removing the bath. Your leak could be caused by a leak in your upstairs toilet.

Well that has all changed now. It s not gushing but enough to need fixing. A toilet leak is usually a result of some sort of a break or defect in the seal of the wax ring that adjoins the toilet to the floor. It s leaking enough on my downstairs ceiling to make a few inches of drywall fall off.

The tub floods and causes a major leak in your ceiling that drips down onto your floors damaging your belongings and soaking the carpet. Has pipe with connecting joint i think. It only leaks when used. This is a very common issue with tubs.

Just a note about shower or bathtub leaks over a garage. You may not have realized it but every time you flushed that toilet you d have been causing water to penetrate through the bathroom floor and into. Leaks in the upstairs bathroom can be more troublesome than leaks downstairs because there s a possibility the leak will cause damage to the ceiling and. My tub has started to leak down through my ceiling with water dripping into my living room of all places.

How to fix a leak from the upstairs bathroom. But it also happens a lot with showers as well. I never thought about what was under that upstairs bathroom though. Shower pipes 10 years old.

If the leak continues even after the shower is off then the leak is probably coming from a water pipe. Perhaps your upstairs neighbor decides to run a bath one night but falls asleep and forgets to turn off the water. It s not gushing but enough to need fixing. It s a stall shower with plastic shower floor.