Just noticed a couple of small brown stains on the kitchen ceiling today, from our main bathroom above. I was expecting a leak somewhere, but not the one I actually found - which is a very crusty looking central heating pipe under the bathroom floor.
I can't actually get to this from above as the bathroom floor is tiled on top of a base board, and it would mean re-laying it - so I'm going to have to cut a trap in the kitchen ceiling over the next day or so, and work from below. No work has been done in recent years - but equally, it looks like it could have been dripping very slowly for some time and suddenly gotten worse.
I can't see it being a patch of corrosion as the system has had corrosion inhibitor in it. I suppose a screw into the top of the pipe when the base board was put down is possible but this looks a bit too crusty for that sort of problem. Anyone seen anything similar?
Thanks!
I can't actually get to this from above as the bathroom floor is tiled on top of a base board, and it would mean re-laying it - so I'm going to have to cut a trap in the kitchen ceiling over the next day or so, and work from below. No work has been done in recent years - but equally, it looks like it could have been dripping very slowly for some time and suddenly gotten worse.
I can't see it being a patch of corrosion as the system has had corrosion inhibitor in it. I suppose a screw into the top of the pipe when the base board was put down is possible but this looks a bit too crusty for that sort of problem. Anyone seen anything similar?
Thanks!