My tub has started to leak down through my ceiling with water dripping into my living room of all places.
Water leaking from upstairs bathroom to downstairs cost.
It s not gushing but enough to need fixing.
Has pipe with connecting joint i think.
Water leaking from upstairs bathroom to downstairs cost.
If it happens that your shower or bathtub is located above your garage you can cut costs by having the plumber cut the ceiling under those pipes and replacing it with a removable door.
To determine if its something else such as a leak in the drain or wall you can do a few things.
How to fix a leak from the upstairs bathroom.
But it also happens a lot with showers as well.
If you have a second story bathroom the problem could be in.
A toilet leak is usually a result of some sort of a break or defect in the seal of the wax ring that adjoins the toilet to the floor.
It s not gushing but enough to need fixing.
This is a very common issue with tubs.
Well that has all changed now.
A damp spot or worse a continuous drip from the ceiling overhead signals trouble.
Perhaps your upstairs neighbor decides to run a bath one night but falls asleep and forgets to turn off the water.
Door frames often leak as well.
Shower pipes 10 years old.
If the leak continues even after the shower is off then the leak is probably coming from a water pipe.
It s leaking enough on my downstairs ceiling to make a few inches of drywall fall off.
The water can run outside of the shower door area onto the floor of the bathroom and leak between the shower and the floor area.
It s a stall shower with plastic shower floor.
Just a note about shower or bathtub leaks over a garage.
The tub floods and causes a major leak in your ceiling that drips down onto your floors damaging your belongings and soaking the carpet.
It only leaks when used.
I never thought about what was under that upstairs bathroom though.
Now i ve got a 2nd floor shower leak leaking downstairs onto tile kitchen.
It s leaking enough on my downstairs ceiling to make a few inches of drywall fall off.
You would have to reconfigure your whole bathroom to get the benefit of the space gained by removing the bath.
Leaks in the upstairs bathroom can be more troublesome than leaks downstairs because there s a possibility the leak will cause damage to the ceiling and.