Water dripping from lighting fixture!!!

rccaulfield

Noticed water dripping from my lighting fixture in bottom floor of my house this evening! Immediately cut power to the lights. Funny thing is theres not a drop of water in the house as its turned off, however on the 2nd floor(3 storey house) my wife was washing bottles in the bathroom sink using water we had saved from the bath, the water was rinsing down the drain pipe, and 5 minutes later i spotted the leak- we rarely use that sink but this was on the top floor? Would this cause a leak 2 floors below? On the middle floor there is no toilets/sinks/baths just 2 radiators. We were away for a few days and when i got back i noticed the psi in our gas boiler was down from 1.2 or so to maybe 0.8 which i thought was unusual but not overly drastic. It has not budged from 0.8 since though? Anyone any ideas?

Davy

Impossible to say without knowing the pipe runs, but it has to be connected the waste on the second floor. To much of a coincidence if their hasn't been anything, and then directly after she was using it. Stop using it, and see doesn it stop.

When it was at 1.2, was that a cold reading?

rccaulfield

Davy wrote: »

Impossible to say without knowing the pipe runs, but it has to be connected the waste on the second floor. To much of a coincidence if their hasn't been anything, and then directly after she was using it. Stop using it, and see doesn it stop.

When it was at 1.2, was that a cold reading?

no at hot! i realise it goes up and down with temp, i was just putting that out there, theres a pin hole leak at a rad thats been causing me to top up for the past year but its very slow. Yea it must be the drainage pipe, it has now stopped with us stopping using that sink, so where do i go from here? Is there any sealant for the drainage pipes similar to the central heating i'm guessing not?

rccaulfield

Just been down to have another look, leak has stopped but a dried out patch has formed about 3 feet from the lights on the ceiling toward the centre of the room?

Davy

rccaulfield wrote: »

Just been down to have another look, leak has stopped but a dried out patch has formed about 3 feet from the lights on the ceiling toward the centre of the room?

That will happen depending what it hits, running on in the ceiling

heinbloed

... i noticed the psi in our gas boiler was down from 1.2 or so to maybe 0.8...

PSI or bar?

rccaulfield

heinbloed wrote: »

PSI or bar?

Sorry bar, Took lights off and there was a bowl of water in the lights electrics! However there hasn't been a drip out of the hole for the wiring all day despite the water being back on and the heating running all day?Had plummer on the phone he said in light of the fact that the drip has stopped he suspects water getting in from the outside somehow? But the leak is on the bottom floor of a 3 storey house-can that happen?
Also the switch in the airing cupboard that i use to top up the system isn't flowing when the swich is opened despite the cistern in the attic being full and the pressure being down? Any idea folks?

Sparkpea

sounds like could be a small leak at a rad pipe if the boiler pressure has dropped

Buford T Justice

Just remember, that because a leak drips from a light fitting doesn't mean that the leak is actually above it. It could be running across the ceiling for a fair bit before it settles and finds a way out at the light.

Sparkpea

Fingers McGee wrote: »

Just remember, that because a leak drips from a light fitting doesn't mean that the leak is actually above it. It could be running across the ceiling for a fair bit before it settles and finds a way out at the light.

yeah often the case, water runs along whatever way the ceiling is lying or the joints of the plasterboard, just so happens the light fitting has a hole for the wires to come through so thats where it drips. if you can find were the leak is from its normally a good idea to poke a hole at the area to let the water drip through there