Hydramax shower dripping and leaking

[scwilliams]

Hi!

We have a concealed shower in our en-suite and for a week or so now it has been dripping. There is also leak somewhere behind the tiles and it has been going on for maybe a year or two - only discovered a couple of weeks ago. Water has been slowly coming through the plasterboard behind the shower, seeping through the tiles and coming through the ceiling of the downstairs toilet (this is what we first noticed). It's also started going into the carpet in the entrance to the en-suite. The wet patch in the carpet has been growing bigger the past few days... hence there is now a bit of urgency1!

It's a Hydramax unit fed by a Worcester combi boiler.

We've got onto our insurance company about the leak and we're in the process of trying to get bathroom fitters out to give us quotes (easier said than done!) but I'd really like to stop the constant drip from the shower before things get much worse. Is it likely that there's a valve somewhere to stop the flow of water to the shower to prevent things getting any worse before the fitters can rectify the whole situation? Or do I need to turn the whole water supply off to stop the problem getting any worse?


Thanks,

Simon

 

[terryplumb]

Whats on the other side of the plasterboard wall that holds the shower ,bedroom ,Hall, cupboard etc ? If isolation valves have been fitted you will need to follow the pipes , they will be from below ,above or behind ,to find the isolators. Very often its less disruption to remove the plasterboard from the wall behind the shower wall ,bedroom side for instance , to get to the leak.