Hello,
I hope someone can help me, just found water running down a wall directly below our shower room. The shower is a square cubicle with the drain in the front right corner of it, near the door. Only bought the house a couple of months ago and so still finding all of these lovely problems
Apologies if I provide a lot of irrelevant info, rather too much than not enough
I have removed the front skirting from the front of the cubicle base (joists running away from you) which reveals the shower drain (tight on space) the pipe runs away from it (almost invisible) then takes a right angle down and under the boards where it links up with the main bathroom waste pipe.
The piece of floor boarding directly below the shower drain was soaking (small puddles of water on it etc and fairly black) looking with a torch I can not see any water towards the rear wall, actually looks bone dry, so I presume the water is running from the drain area and onto the ceiling below and finding its way to the back wall. If you stick you hand round the drain to the right the grooved nut that connects the pipe to the drain assembly is wet to the touch so almost certainly is the cause of the leak...
The main question is, is there a trick to getting to this joint and replacing the washers, or whatever is likely to be the problem without what I am dreading which is removing the cubicle, then the tray etc... The following provides a better picture, please note on image 2 the gap between the joist and the shower drain is a lot smaller than it looks:
Thanks in advance.
I hope someone can help me, just found water running down a wall directly below our shower room. The shower is a square cubicle with the drain in the front right corner of it, near the door. Only bought the house a couple of months ago and so still finding all of these lovely problems
Apologies if I provide a lot of irrelevant info, rather too much than not enough
I have removed the front skirting from the front of the cubicle base (joists running away from you) which reveals the shower drain (tight on space) the pipe runs away from it (almost invisible) then takes a right angle down and under the boards where it links up with the main bathroom waste pipe.
The piece of floor boarding directly below the shower drain was soaking (small puddles of water on it etc and fairly black) looking with a torch I can not see any water towards the rear wall, actually looks bone dry, so I presume the water is running from the drain area and onto the ceiling below and finding its way to the back wall. If you stick you hand round the drain to the right the grooved nut that connects the pipe to the drain assembly is wet to the touch so almost certainly is the cause of the leak...
The main question is, is there a trick to getting to this joint and replacing the washers, or whatever is likely to be the problem without what I am dreading which is removing the cubicle, then the tray etc... The following provides a better picture, please note on image 2 the gap between the joist and the shower drain is a lot smaller than it looks:
Thanks in advance.