Hi, As per usual any help will be greatly appreciated. We have water stains in our downstairs utility room. Our bathroom is directly above this area. I pulled the bath panel off...
Noticed there's not many floorboards around the pipework. so any leak would go straight down on to the ceiling. Some of the floorboards are rotting away.
Anyway.... when i turn hot water on for a bath, no leak. However if we turn shower on, the hot water pipe circled in red in the below picture starts to leak at the very top, where its fixed to underneath of tap. Only a trickle but i guess it'll be enough to cause damage.
Not sure why it doesn't happen when hot water tap opened for a bath, only when shower is used. One thing i should mention, water is escaping from the shower mixer unit, a fine spray. A plumber mentioned the washers in the unit had probably gone and would need replaced. Could this be causing the leak underneath the bath or are they 2 separate issues.
Thanks in advance
Noticed there's not many floorboards around the pipework. so any leak would go straight down on to the ceiling. Some of the floorboards are rotting away.
Anyway.... when i turn hot water on for a bath, no leak. However if we turn shower on, the hot water pipe circled in red in the below picture starts to leak at the very top, where its fixed to underneath of tap. Only a trickle but i guess it'll be enough to cause damage.
Not sure why it doesn't happen when hot water tap opened for a bath, only when shower is used. One thing i should mention, water is escaping from the shower mixer unit, a fine spray. A plumber mentioned the washers in the unit had probably gone and would need replaced. Could this be causing the leak underneath the bath or are they 2 separate issues.
Thanks in advance