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Ok so to cut the story short, I have a leak that I believe relates to my soil stack pipe.
Noticed it over winter after leaving something heavy on the carpet that it had left a wet patch behind.
Have a baby due in a few months so am trying to get all house jobs sorted asap, including a new lounge carpet (was planned anyway before finding the leak)
Here is the corner of the lounge, I've cut a hole out which shows the central heating pipes and the soil stack 'waste' pipe.
This pipe runs up into the upstairs bathroom and then into the loft and through the roof.
Now, I don't know if the leak is from rain water or not.
When cutting into the box to investigate a couple of weeks ago it was stone dry in there, but as you can see it's previously been quite wet.
I left some tissue in there with a jar on top to monitor things, we had some heavy rain midweek and when checking yesterday the top of the jar was wet.
Looking up into the box after removing some insulation, the red dot shows where I found some water droplets on a bit of insulation.
Here is the pipe in the loft, it is completely dry to touch so I believe the problem isn't on the roof itself.
Here is the upstairs bathroom, you can see the toilet waste pipe goes into the box.
BUT, I imagine the leak is maybe above this point as otherwise I'd always have a leak all year round and from when the toilet is flushed (I'd surely smell it, and there is no oder)
My thinking at the moment is that rain water is coming down the soil stack and that somewhere there is a poor joint allowing the rain water to drip down the side, through the insulation and finally dripping onto the floor in that corner in the lounge.
Reason being, if it was a leak with central heating, bath, toilet the problem would be bad all year round but it has definately cleared up from how bad it must have once been.
I cut the box open 2 weeks back and it's only in the last 2 days I've seen a hint of any water leak in there.
Problem is, I have a feeling I'm now going to have to also cut open the box in the upstairs bathroom just above where the toilet waste pipe enters.
Any thoughts, ideas?
Noticed it over winter after leaving something heavy on the carpet that it had left a wet patch behind.
Have a baby due in a few months so am trying to get all house jobs sorted asap, including a new lounge carpet (was planned anyway before finding the leak)
Here is the corner of the lounge, I've cut a hole out which shows the central heating pipes and the soil stack 'waste' pipe.
This pipe runs up into the upstairs bathroom and then into the loft and through the roof.
Now, I don't know if the leak is from rain water or not.
When cutting into the box to investigate a couple of weeks ago it was stone dry in there, but as you can see it's previously been quite wet.
I left some tissue in there with a jar on top to monitor things, we had some heavy rain midweek and when checking yesterday the top of the jar was wet.
Looking up into the box after removing some insulation, the red dot shows where I found some water droplets on a bit of insulation.
Here is the pipe in the loft, it is completely dry to touch so I believe the problem isn't on the roof itself.
Here is the upstairs bathroom, you can see the toilet waste pipe goes into the box.
BUT, I imagine the leak is maybe above this point as otherwise I'd always have a leak all year round and from when the toilet is flushed (I'd surely smell it, and there is no oder)
My thinking at the moment is that rain water is coming down the soil stack and that somewhere there is a poor joint allowing the rain water to drip down the side, through the insulation and finally dripping onto the floor in that corner in the lounge.
Reason being, if it was a leak with central heating, bath, toilet the problem would be bad all year round but it has definately cleared up from how bad it must have once been.
I cut the box open 2 weeks back and it's only in the last 2 days I've seen a hint of any water leak in there.
Problem is, I have a feeling I'm now going to have to also cut open the box in the upstairs bathroom just above where the toilet waste pipe enters.
Any thoughts, ideas?