bdmeyer
Active Member
When I bought my house the previous owners made no mention, and the inspector didn't find any evidence of a leak.
The shower has a hand held sprayer, a high wall mounted sprayer, and three side mounted sprayers.
You can select one or many of the sprayers with a selector knob.
There is an access panel where I can clearly see and inspect for valve and pipe leakage in the adjoining closet for all except the wall where the three sprayers are.
Directly underneath this floor is a garage with clear access to the subfloor.
You can go in the shower stall (an enclosed fiberglass two sided wall/floor) and take a shower and maybe three of four times it won't leak a drop.
Another time you can take a shower and it leaks buckets.
We have restricted our sprayers to only the hand held sprayer to try and rule our a specific sprayer.
Standing on a ladder in the garage, I wrapped all the joints with silicone tape to rule the joints out. (Still leaks)
In the garage on the subfloor over my head I checked the tightness of the collar nut (my words, I don't know what it is called) and it is so tight, I can't loosen it.
The water doesn't seem to be coming from the exact location where the drain pipe is though. It seems to be coming from somewhere else away from the collar perhaps between the shower basis and the subfloor, but leaking around the drain pipe. I may be wrong about this, it is very difficult to tell.
I put silicone in the drain part above the black rubber looking gasket that is around the PC drain pipe under the drain grid to make sure that it is sealed.
Last year I replaced the valve that controls the sprayer selection hoping it might be the cause.
Short of completely removing the stall to try and find the leak, I can't think of anything to try that I may have missed.
Any guidance will certainly be appreciated.
For what it is worth, I have tried to get a plumber in here twice, but each time, after waiting a few hours I get a text message saying they won't make it, and never a follow up call to reschedule.
Thanks,
-= BDM
The shower has a hand held sprayer, a high wall mounted sprayer, and three side mounted sprayers.
You can select one or many of the sprayers with a selector knob.
There is an access panel where I can clearly see and inspect for valve and pipe leakage in the adjoining closet for all except the wall where the three sprayers are.
Directly underneath this floor is a garage with clear access to the subfloor.
You can go in the shower stall (an enclosed fiberglass two sided wall/floor) and take a shower and maybe three of four times it won't leak a drop.
Another time you can take a shower and it leaks buckets.
We have restricted our sprayers to only the hand held sprayer to try and rule our a specific sprayer.
Standing on a ladder in the garage, I wrapped all the joints with silicone tape to rule the joints out. (Still leaks)
In the garage on the subfloor over my head I checked the tightness of the collar nut (my words, I don't know what it is called) and it is so tight, I can't loosen it.
The water doesn't seem to be coming from the exact location where the drain pipe is though. It seems to be coming from somewhere else away from the collar perhaps between the shower basis and the subfloor, but leaking around the drain pipe. I may be wrong about this, it is very difficult to tell.
I put silicone in the drain part above the black rubber looking gasket that is around the PC drain pipe under the drain grid to make sure that it is sealed.
Last year I replaced the valve that controls the sprayer selection hoping it might be the cause.
Short of completely removing the stall to try and find the leak, I can't think of anything to try that I may have missed.
Any guidance will certainly be appreciated.
For what it is worth, I have tried to get a plumber in here twice, but each time, after waiting a few hours I get a text message saying they won't make it, and never a follow up call to reschedule.
Thanks,
-= BDM