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Water dripping from ceiling

  • 20-04-2011 8:50am
    #1
    shoes34
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 620 ✭✭✭


    This morning I noticed water dripping from the ceiling in my kitchen, the main bathroom is just above it. Should I contact the builder of the house or a plumber. I have had the house 2 and half years.


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  • #2
    Carlow52
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,389 ✭✭✭Carlow52


    to start with u should turn off the hot and cold taps and try see what the issue is, shower/bath/toilet/wash handbasin/bidet/etc

    If the water gets too much the ceiling could fall in.

    I would start with a plumber but ceiling may need redoing if water damage severe


  • #3
    shoes34
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 620 ✭✭✭shoes34


    thanks, would it worth mentioning to Homebond as I am going contact them about cracks i have in my walls and ceilings and some of these aren't settlement cracks. Or do they just deal with structural damage.


  • #4
    gent9662
    Closed Accounts Posts: 697 ✭✭✭gent9662


    It could be a number of things:

    1. Is the hot press above the Kitchen? If so could be a valve that has come loose. Happened to me several times (in house for 3 yrs).

    2. Radiator is leaking

    3. Shower not sealed correctly

    Whatever it is, I would get a plumber out straight away.

    OP was correct in saying that it could bring down ceiling. Probably as a result of severe frost during winter.


  • #5
    Joey the lips
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,262 ✭✭✭✭Joey the lips


    You will get nowhere with the builder or homebond on this.

    My first bet would be to look in under the bath

    at the back of the basin

    or behind the toilet.

    If there is no signs it could be a screw gone through the pipe when the tiled floor was put down and its starting to rust away.


  • #6
    shoes34
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 620 ✭✭✭shoes34


    have had it looked at and it appears the waste disposal unit hasn't been connected properly and that is what was causing the leak. The bathroom wasn't used that much until recently.


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  • #7
    Carlow52
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,389 ✭✭✭Carlow52


    shoes34 wrote: »
    have had it looked at and it appears the waste disposal unit hasn't been connected properly and that is what was causing the leak. The bathroom wasn't used that much until recently.

    Waste disposal in an upstairs bathroom:)


  • #8
    shoes34
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 620 ✭✭✭shoes34


    Carlow52 wrote: »
    Waste disposal in an upstairs bathroom:)


    pardon my ignorance for not knowing the correct terminalogy but where teh water goes down the drain, the stopper wasn't fitted correctly and the thing to pull it up and down wasn't attached correctly.


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