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.
Water leaking from upstairs bathroom to downstairs.
But it also happens a lot with showers as well.
Residential water damage from the upstairs unit can be accidental or it can be the result of negligence.
Cut a hole in the ceiling to enable you to undertake a visual inspection of the pipework to see if the pipes are leaking or to see if there is direct leaking from under the tiles.
Understanding why it happens can also help you understand how long you might have to wait for repairs to fix the problem.
This is a very common issue with tubs.
The tub floods and causes a major leak in your ceiling that drips down onto your floors damaging your belongings and soaking the carpet.
If you have a second story bathroom the problem could be in.
Perhaps your upstairs neighbor decides to run a bath one night but falls asleep and forgets to turn off the water.
Usually there is ceiling space between the upstairs bathroom and the lower ceiling.
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.
These are the most common causes of water leaks from upstairs.
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.
When you have water leaking through the floor from an upstairs bathroom and you re not sure where it s coming from you need to check three plumbing.
You may not have realized it but every time you flushed that toilet you d have been causing water to penetrate through the bathroom floor and into.
A damp spot or worse a continuous drip from the ceiling overhead signals trouble.
If not your home will be at risk for major water damage.
To determine if its something else such as a leak in the drain or wall you can do a few things.
Just a note about shower or bathtub leaks over a garage.
Your leak could be caused by a leak in your upstairs toilet.
Water leaking from the upstairs condo.
If the leak continues even after the shower is off then the leak is probably coming from a water pipe.
Door frames often leak as well.
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.