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Jul. 9th, 2009 @ 02:43 pm Drip, drip, drip
Moments ago I was peacefully sitting and eating my mid-sleep yogurt (working nights again), watching my birdfeeder with my kitties when I began to hear a drip, drip, drip from the closet. EP was upstairs in the shower, and there is a cut out area of the ceiling in said closet. So of course I envisioned water dripping down from the shower through that existing hole (likely evidence of a prior leak!). I opened up the closet door, and lo! it was water dripping though the hole.

As EP said the other day when we were scraping the deck, we kind of got the somewhat more expensive ready to live in house because it did not appear to need many repairs and there weren't any terribly disclosures by the owner or anything. Turns out...
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From:[info]arturis
Date: July 10th, 2009 10:36 pm (UTC)
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Wait, there was a missing part of the ceiling in the closet?

Depending on where the leak is coming from, it could be not a huge deal. If it only leaks when someone is using the shower, it's almost certainly in the drain lines, which are way easier to repair yourself (not needing soldering). If you find the specific location of the problem and take a picture or two, I could probably talk you through the repair.
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From:[info]dortz
Date: July 10th, 2009 11:38 pm (UTC)
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there is a 18"x18" square cut in the ceiling of the closet that conveniently exposes the drain pipes to the bathtub.
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From:[info]arturis
Date: July 11th, 2009 01:20 am (UTC)
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I'm surprised your inspector didn't catch this. They don't, as a rule, look inside walls, but when there's a big hole looking at all the plumbing, I'd expect he would have checked. But maybe this just suddenly started happening?
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From:[info]dortz
Date: July 12th, 2009 12:24 am (UTC)
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I suspect this is a recurrence of a previous problem, but he certainly did not go turn on the water and sit down by the hole in the ceiling to see what would happen, nor did he speculate too much about the presence of the hole in proximity to the plumbing.
From:(Anonymous)
Date: July 12th, 2009 01:40 am (UTC)
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Sorry to hear about the lousy inspector. We've had good luck with ours in the past, but we went on recommendations from our realtor who is also a trusted friend.
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From:[info]fish0251
Date: July 12th, 2009 01:40 am (UTC)
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That was me.
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From:[info]hexagonalcarbon
Date: July 10th, 2009 11:54 pm (UTC)
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So not blood. That is good.
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From:[info]dortz
Date: July 10th, 2009 11:58 pm (UTC)
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No, no need for exorcism yet.